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My Responses to the Responses to the Basic Income Article in Newsweek
This weekend Newsweek joined the mainstream media club to write favorably of basic income. Please read the article [http://www.newsweek.com/how-fix-poverty-write-every-family-basic-income-check-291583] if you haven't already done so. I think it's important in an article like this to get a feeling for how people are
Women Have Lower Incomes Than Men
Claim 1: Income is access to resources [http://www.scottsantens.com/shouldn-t-all-this-talk-about-money-actually-be-talk-about-resources] . When it comes to humans, one gender is given less access to resources than the other. Claim 2: Women are paid less than men for the same work. Though it may appear these two claims are the same,
5 Steps to Becoming a BIG Contributor
So you want to help make a basic income guarantee happen? Our primary need is for more materials that are more accessible, more shareable, more impactful, etc. This need is huge and is exactly why there is also such a great opportunity to be a major part of this instead
Does Guaranteeing a Basic Income Reduce Income Inequality?
Universal Basic Income (UBI) directly reduces income inequality. I've actually written an as yet unpublished chapter for a book about this very topic, and am working on an article about this as well. Here are two preliminary findings from what I'm still working on: (For a
The Big Easy was noted for its low quality of life... Stop right there.
This is in response to the article "Economic Innovation in the 'New' New Orleans [http://www.areadevelopment.com/stateResources/louisiana/New-Orleans-economic-innovation-post-Katrina-2929287.shtml#comment-1714391079] ": > "Only a decade ago, the Big Easy was noted for its poor business climate, low quality of life..." Woah, woah,
Google Hangout with Me and Marlen Vargas Del Razo of Living Income Guaranteed
I was asked by Marlen Vargas Del Razo [https://twitter.com/marlenlife] of Living Income Guaranteed [https://twitter.com/LivingIncome] to join her for a Live Google Hangout today about the topic of basic income as basic resources. You can watch the video here: For more info about what was
Unearned Income and the Velocity of Money
Two lesser known variables in the inflation equation Exhibit D of Wouldn’t Unconditional Basic Income Just Cause Massive Inflation? [https://medium.com/basic-income/wouldnt-unconditional-basic-income-just-cause-massive-inflation-fe71d69f15e7] Two lesser known economic concerns among those who know of them, are possible differences in how we perceive the value of money depending on how
Wouldn’t Unconditional Basic Income Just Cause Massive Inflation?
An answer to the response to the answer to the growing question of the 21st century By far, the most common concern in regards to my first article on Medium about the idea of an unconditional basic income [https://medium.com/working-life/why-should-we-support-the-idea-of-an-unconditional-basic-income-8a2680c73dd3] was that all prices would inevitably go
"What do we do about bad examples like this one?"
In response to the following news article: “The money is gone!” Teary mugshot drew $114K in donations, but prosecutors have taken back their deal [http://fox6now.com/2014/11/18/the-money-is-gone-teary-mugshot-drew-114k-in-donations-but-prosecutors-have-taken-back-their-deal/] This is actually a good example of why basic income should be basic and unconditional, and not that basic
Google Homes and WikiHouses
Disruptive ideas that can transform housing markets Exhibit C of Wouldn’t Unconditional Basic Income Just Cause Massive Inflation? [https://medium.com/basic-income/wouldnt-unconditional-basic-income-just-cause-massive-inflation-fe71d69f15e7] Being that many of us spend the greatest portion of our incomes in one place on rent and that they seem to just go up and
