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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,
Universal Basic Income Will Likely Increase Social Cohesion
I think we should avoid letting our ideologies inform our opinions on matters of social and economic policy. What matters is scientifically observed evidence. I support the idea of providing everyone with an unconditional basic income [http://www.huffingtonpost.com/scott-santens/why-should-we-support-the_b_7630162.html] not because I just think
Trickle-Down Economics Must Die, Long Live Grown-Up Economics
The myth of inequality-driven economic growth and how to achieve real prosperity for all “Economics, as it has been practiced in the last three decades, has been positively harmful for most people.” — Economist Ha-Joon Chang For over thirty years we’ve treated something as fact which is actually false. Economists
Our Paradoxical Economy Courtesy of Technology and the Lack of Basic Income
The Question of Slowing Productivity Amidst Rising Automation The latest numbers are in [http://bigstory.ap.org/article/c4f2a1cc39df4ed0ae6e9b1cea53b2c9/job-markets-new-normal-smaller-workforce-sluggish-pay] , and there are now more people not working in the U.S. as a percentage of the total population, than ever in the last 38 years. Some are already asking
Self-Driving Trucks Are Going to Hit Us Like a Human-Driven Truck
The imminent need for basic income in recognition of our machine-driven future Late last year, I took a road trip with my partner from our home in New Orleans, Louisiana to Orlando, Florida and as we drove by town after town, we got to talking about the potential effects self-driving
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
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
“If we no longer force people to work to meet their basic needs, won’t they stop working?”
Acknowledging our one option society What underlies a question like this is that it’s okay to force people to work by withholding what they need to live, in order to force them to work for us. And at the same time, because they are forced, we don’t even
Universal Basic Income as the Social Vaccine of the 21st Century
Can the savings of basic income exceed the costs? > “An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.” — Benjamin Franklin [https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/247269-an-ounce-of-prevention-is-worth-a-pound-of-cure] For those not familiar with this old idiom, it means it’s less costly to avoid problems from ever happening in the
How We Can Transform America’s Broken Economic System to Work for EVERYONE
No matter how poor or rich, ALL of our lives can be better in the 21st century… if we unbreak the system Japan arose like a phoenix from the ruins of World War II to quickly become the second most powerful economy in the world. This unbelievable feat has been
