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Robots Will Take Your Jobs
My first ever article to be published in the Boston Globe is now available online. It's titled "Robots Will Take Your Job" [http://www.bostonglobe.com/ideas/2016/02/24/robots-will-take-your-job/5lXtKomQ7uQBEzTJOXT7YO/story.html] . For those in and around the Boston area, this story will also
The Disproportionate Effects of a Universal Basic Income
One very interesting but not so easy to understand element of universal basic income [https://medium.com/working-life/why-should-we-support-the-idea-of-an-unconditional-basic-income-8a2680c73dd3] is how it disproportionately helps traditionally marginalized groups more than anyone else. That sentence alone may be confusing. If everyone gets the same amount, how can one group benefit more than
On the Record: Bernie Sanders on Basic Income
There’s an increasing number of people asking Bernie Sanders if he supports the idea of universal basic income. You may be surprised to learn that he has in fact directly responded to these questions on multiple occasions, once even to a question posed to him myself. This first exchange
Basic Income Observations Log: Entry One
If you're reading this as a subscriber to my blog or as one of my followers on Twitter [https://twitter.com/2noame] or Facebook [https://facebook.com/scottsantens], you likely already know this, but if you're new to my writing, you may not yet know that
Robin Hoodwinked: How Billion Dollar Powerballs Reflect 21st Century Inequality
State lotteries take from the poor to give to the rich, but we have options and there is a game-changing alternative - basic income Back in 2015, I drove past the same sign I drive past daily, but looked at it with fresh eyes. It was a Powerball sign and
Who Wants a Free Sample of Basic Income?
One thing I've learned so far in observing the world increasingly discuss the idea of basic income, is that this discussion, as is true with any discussion, can be like the Telephone Game [http://www.wikihow.com/Play-the-Telephone-Game]. A reported fact can be tweeted, blogged, shared, re-reported, re-blogged,
Press Release: American Achieves First Crowdfunded Monthly Basic Income
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE December 14, 2015 Contact: Scott Santens scott@scottsantens.comTwitter: @scottsantens [https://twitter.com/scottsantens] American Achieves First Crowdfunded Monthly Basic Income (New Orleans, La.) – Writer and basic income advocate Scott Santens has become the first person to successfully crowdfund a perpetual monthly “basic income.” Starting his campaign
Something Is Happening: Basic Income Create-A-Thons Are Here
Something is happening in San Francisco. Perhaps someday we will look back and call it an epicenter of the 21st century. Walking the streets as a stranger in a strange land, I couldn’t help but feel signs on every corner of the imminent breaking of a great technological wave,
What YouTube and Star Wars Fans Are Showing Us About the Future of Work
In 2015 I was invited to take part in a panel at the Brookings Institution [http://www.brookings.edu/events/2015/10/26-robotics-employment-social-benefits-west] about the future of work in light of accelerating technological advances, and during that panel (which is available on YouTube) [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mt-Hqn9qiDs]
You can register to watch my panel live at the Brookings Institute
I will be part of a panel at Brookings tomorrow, Oct 26, at 3pm in Washington, DC. For those interested in watching it, it will be live streamed online. Here's the link to use to register for the webcast [http://connect.brookings.edu/register-to-watch-robotics-employment-social-benefits] . My fellow panelist will