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Podcast Episode: Vision and Foundations for a Better Society
From 2019 to 2021, I took part in a convening on automation, opportunity, and belonging to visualize the future and how to get to a better one among the infinitely possible versions of it. Together we crafted over multiple iterations a vision document of the kind of society we could
My New (And First) Book: Let There Be Money
Now available in paperback and Kindle For those who have read my long essay about UBI and MMT [https://vocal.media/theSwamp/why-we-need-modern-monetary-theory-mmt-and-why-it-needs-universal-basic-income-ubi] (or listened to me narrate it [https://anchor.fm/scottsantens/episodes/Why-We-Need-Modern-Monetary-Theory-MMT-and-Why-It-Needs-Universal-Basic-Income-UBI-e175t4m] ) in its entirety, you know it was long. At near 14,000 words, it takes
Understanding Pandemic Inflation: How to Best Reduce and Alleviate It
It would be a mistake to misdiagnose our inflation as mostly a demand problem instead of mostly a supply problem. Inflation has become the scariest monster of 2021. That’s pretty amazing considering how a novel coronavirus has killed upwards of 20 million human beings since a pandemic started, including
How Work Requirements are Actually Anti-Work and Why the Fully-Refundable Child Tax Credit is Pro-Work
The fully-refundable CTC is a better way. It needs to stay. Won’t people stop working if they receive income independent of work? That’s always one of the first questions asked in regards to any government benefit that doesn’t require employment or job-seeking in order to receive it.
Proof of Humanity and the Universal Basic Income Coin
On March 10, 2021, Proof of Humanity’s UBI coin [https://blog.kleros.io/introducing-ubi-universal-basic-income-for-humans/] went live on the Ethereum Mainnet. For anyone who doesn’t know what that sentence means, it means that a cryptocurrency project was launched using the most popular smart contract blockchain in the world, with
The Forward Book and the Forward Party
Forward is now in bookstores and the Forward Party has just launched! I read Andrew Yang’s new book Forward: Notes on the Future of Our Democracy [https://amzn.to/3rBx97E?utm_campaign=Foreword%20to%20Civilization&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Revue%20newsletter] months ago, and have been
The Republican History of the Child Tax Credit and Why the GOP Should Proudly Embrace It
From Reagan, to Bush, to the Contract with America, to George W. Bush, to Trump, the child tax credit is a Republican creation that the GOP should embrace and make permanent On July 15, the first monthly child tax credit (CTC) payments went out, and they’re already being considered
New on Vocal: Why We Need Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) and Why It Needs Universal Basic Income (UBI)
It's published!!! At just shy of 14,000 words, my latest article is the closest thing to writing a book that I've done so far. Despite its length, it's still meant to be readable like an enjoyable book, and not a heavy academic slog
Escaping Together
Thoughts about basic income, surviving disasters, and the future we must escape from At some point in all of our lives, we all try to escape from something. There are few things more universal to the human experience than the act of escape, of running from some predator or some
Letter to the Editor from a New Orleans evacuee
As published by L'Observateur [https://www.lobservateur.com/2021/09/03/letter-to-the-editor-from-a-new-orleans-evacuee/] Dear Editor: Between evacuating our homes and fighting over gas for our cars and generators, I know we’ve all got our hands full right now, but that’s exactly why it’s so hard to