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"Won't basic income give too much power to whomever distributes it?"
One of the more common responses to first hearing about the idea of a basic income guarantee, is the fear that it would give too much power to government. The thinking goes that if government is giving money to everyone, then they could threaten to discontinue doing so at any
"Yeah, but who's going to pay for it?"
"Money, Guilt, and the Machine" by Alan Watts (The following text is what I personally transcribed from a video originally uploaded to YouTube by AlanWattsLectures of a lecture given by philosopher Alan Watts circa late '60s) So this goes very deep into us. It goes deep, deep,
John Oliver, Edward Snowden, and Unconditional Basic Income
How all three are surprisingly connected In what is arguably the most important piece to come out of John Oliver’s “Last Week Tonight” show on HBO so far, John tackles the subject of government surveillance and does so in a way that is guaranteed to win awards in the
Reddit, Robots, and Resources
(The following is an edited transcript from my appearance on the Robot Overlordz podcast adapted for article form. You can read the original unedited transcript and also listen to the show in full here [https://robotoverlordz.fm/show/200-ep00153-notes]. A big thank you to Mike Johnston and Matt Bolton for
TANF is TERRIBLE
There is a belief in this country that we help the poor, and the poor take advantage of this help to become welfare kings and queens. Both the left and the right perpetuate this myth in their own way. The left believes the government is helping people and the right
Dear Patreon:
First off, I just want to thank you for creating your platform [https://www.patreon.com/]. It's really something for which to be proud in the difference you are making in people's lives, mine included. So I'm writing you to let you know a
"What do we do about drug users with basic incomes?"
Any discussion about basic income and drug use first needs to be informed by learning more about drug users and their actual behavior. To start with, please first read this: The Rational Choices of Crack Addicts [http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/17/science/the-rational-choices-of-crack-addicts.html?pagewanted=all] > [Dr.
My Guest Appearance on the P2P Connects Us Podcast
A new podcast with me as a guest is up today. This one is the P2P Connects Us [https://letstalkbitcoin.com/blog/category/p2p-connects-us] podcast. I talk about the state of technology, why it requires basic income, and how UBI would actually create a more distributed system as opposed to
New Medium Article: Notes of Discussions in the North American Basic Income Guarantee Congress of 2015
Read the article I published on Medium [https://medium.com/basic-income/notes-of-discussions-in-the-north-american-basic-income-guarantee-congress-of-2015-56607ceb9362] on March 23rd, 2015. Summary: This is what I've spent the past three weeks writing. It's a full summary of the North American Basic Income Congress I attended in NYC earlier this month. I
The Water Room Analogy
"You want to even give basic income to the rich?! That doesn't make any sense at all because they don't need it, it'll cost more, and you'll be taxing them only to give it back to them." This a common
