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How to Make Our Votes for President of the United States Actually Count
After what feels like the longest election in the history of the United States, Election Day 2016 is finally coming up on November 8th, and once again, because of the Electoral College system and how it works, for the majority of citizens, myself included, our votes won’t actually matter.
From Rats in Cages to Primates in Paradise — The Scientific Story of Stress in Society
The immediate need for basic income in recognition of the effects of chronic stress and the importance of improving environments At the end of 2015, after a year-long journey, I achieved the realization of an idea with the help of about 140 people that has already forever changed the way
The Progressive Case for Replacing the Welfare State with Universal Basic Income
(This article was originally published on techcrunch.com [https://techcrunch.com/2016/09/09/the-progressive-case-for-replacing-the-welfare-state-with-basic-income/] ) It appears some establishment voices have picked up on a way of opposing the idea of the monthly citizen dividend of about $1,000 per month, known as universal basic income (UBI), in a way
The Results of the Basic Income Referendum in Switzerland
Today is the day Switzerland voted on the idea of an unconditional basic income. It is a first. It is historic. It is direct democracy in action. As I write this here from inside the campaign headquarters in Basel, Switzerland, the polls are still open and people are still voting,
Last Month in Basic Income... A Summary of April 2016
Continuing my pledge to monthly summarize the growth of the basic income movement worldwide (that’s the bipartisan call to change your monthly starting point from $0 to somewhere above the poverty line instead), it’s time again to look back at the previous month. You can read last month’
Last Month in Basic Income... A Summary of March 2016
Basic income as a global movement around an idea is officially spreading like wildfire. According to Google Trends, interest in the idea has quadrupled just in the past three months. Source: Google Trends [https://www.google.com.sg/trends/explore#q=%22basic%20income%22&cmpt=q&tz=Etc%
Deep Learning Is Going to Teach Us All the Lesson of Our Lives: Jobs Are for Machines
(An alternate version of this article was originally published in the Boston Globe) [http://www.bostonglobe.com/ideas/2016/02/24/robots-will-take-your-job/5lXtKomQ7uQBEzTJOXT7YO/story.html] On December 2nd, 1942, a team of scientists led by Enrico Fermi came back from lunch and watched as humanity created the first self-sustaining nuclear
Inequality and the Basic Income Guarantee
This essay is part of a collection of 37 from the Wicked Problems Collaborative [http://www.wickedproblemscollaborative.com/] of which I’m part, titled “What Do We Do About Inequality?” The book is available on Amazon [http://amzn.to/2bRRDGP] in Kindle and paperback formats. The use of cash transfers
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
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
