Scott Santens
Writer and full-time advocate of unconditional basic income (UBI); Citizen of Earth and New Orleans; Bachelor of Science in Psychology; Editor of Basic Income Today
New on Vocal: Why We Need Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) and Why It Needs Universal Basic Income (UBI)
Also available to listen to in podcast form
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 that no one will read. I hope readers will agree.
I've long avoided . . .
Posted in: analogyautomationbullshit jobscostdebtevidencefunding methodsmoneymotivationproductivitysciencespendingunpaid laborvoluntary labor
New on Medium: The Zombification of Intellectual Property and the Tool That Could Finally Reform It
How IP-Funded Basic Income Could Enrich the Public Domain
I've just published a new feature-length article over on Medium "The Zombification of Intellectual Property and the Tool That Could Finally Reform It".
Here's an excerpt:
In the 2009 paper Forever Minus a Day? Calculating Optimal Copyright Term, its author Rufus Pollock of the University of Cambridge . . .
Posted in: funding methodsmedium
Inequality and the Basic Income Guarantee
My latest article on Medium
I published a new article today on Medium. It's called "Inequality and the Basic Income Guarantee", and it's actually the essay I contributed to the book "What do we do about inequality?". Kindle owners, you can get the full book now on Amazon.
Excerpt:
This essay contributes to the . . .
Reddit, Robots, and Resources
Why I got into the idea of basic income and how we can go about implementing it
(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. A big thank you to Mike Johnston and Matt Bolton for the raw transcript and for having me on their show!)
The Origins of My Interest . . .
Posted in: automationbasic income experimentsfunding methodspodcasttechnological unemploymenttranscript
