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 Podcast Episode: How We Can Transform America’s Broken Economic System to Work for Everyone
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Minimum Wages vs. Universal Basic Income
One of these is a tool of the future, the other is a tool of the past
Below is the full audio (with text) of my commentary originally recorded for WNYC's The Takeaway for a discussion about reconsidering the minimum wage, of which only a small portion was aired. It is available here now in its entirety.
Audio:
Text:
I think that wherever possible, we should look to . . .
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Multimedia Appearances
A collection of my guest appearances on podcasts, radio, TV, etc.
An ongoing collection of my multimedia appearances in order of newest to oldest:
The Tim Black Show (September 5, 2019)
Hill of Roses Candidate Supporter Debate (September 1, 2019)
Nerds for Yang (August 22, 2019)
Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer (August 20, 2019)
. . .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 . . .
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My Guest Appearance on the P2P Connects Us Podcast
A new podcast with me as a guest is up today. This one is the P2P Connects Us podcast.
I talk about the state of technology, why it requires basic income, and how UBI would actually create a more distributed system as opposed to the idea it would further centralize it. This is something I've been meaning to write about in-depth, . . .
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Robot Overlordz Podcast Appearance
Episode 153 - "Basic Benjamin$!"
I was asked recently to be the guest for an episode of the Robot Overlordz podcast. As of today, the ep's now available to listen to over here.
My thanks to the guys over at Robot Overlordz for having me on the show! You can find more of their shows here.
And you can also follow their podcast on Twitter and Facebook.
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