Scott Santens
Writer and advocate of basic income for all; Citizen of Earth and New Orleans; Bachelor of Science in Psychology; Moderator of the /r/BasicIncome community on Reddit; Founder of the BIG Patreon Creator Pledge. —
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Popular Articles
- Deep Learning Is Going to Teach Us All the Lesson of Our Lives: Jobs Are for Machines - 500,000 views
- Self-Driving Trucks Are Going to Hit Us Like a Human-Driven Truck - 200,000+ views
- Why Should We Support the Idea of an Unconditional Basic Income? - 120,000+ views
- Wouldn’t Unconditional Basic Income Just Cause Massive Inflation? - 35,000+ views
- John Oliver, Edward Snowden, and Unconditional Basic Income - 50,000+ views
- Universal Basic Income as the Social Vaccine of the 21st Century - 15,000+ views
- 6 Mind-Blowing Discoveries Made Using Google Earth - 2+ million views
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Press
- What If Everybody Didn't Have to Work to Get Paid? - Featured in The Atlantic
- Basic Income Might Be The Answer To Society's Productivity Crisis - Interview with Forbes
- What Would Happen If We Just Gave People Money? - Interview with FiveThirtyEight
- Scott Santens talks universal basic income, and why the U.S. could adopt it by 2035 - Interview with Futurism
- Basic income experts say Trump could be the radical change America needs - Interview with Business Insider
- The Future Threat to Middle America No One Is Talking About - Interview with Mic
- The Cryptocurrency-Based Projects That Would Pay Everyone Just for Being Alive - Referenced in Vice
- Self-Driving Trucks Are Going to Kill Jobs, and Not Just for Drivers - Referenced in Gizmodo
- When Will Self-Driving Trucks Destroy America? - Referenced in Bloomberg View
- Automated Inequality - Interview with Harvard Politics
- Unconditional Basic Income - Discussion Whose Time Has Come? - Interview with Bold Blue Magazine (pg 30-31)
- Basic income pilot project a taste of things to come - Interview with Windsor Independent
- Happy Basic Income Day - Interview with Motherboard
- This could be the most important holiday when robots take all our jobs - Interview with Tech Insider
- Basic income crowdfunder sees Swiss vote’s potential - Interview with Swissinfo.ch
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- Basic Income Advocate Founds “The BIG Patreon Creator Pledge” - Featured in Basic Income News
Republished In
- Huffington Post
- Daily Dot
- Institute for Ethics & Emerging Technologies
- P2P Foundation
- HUSH Magazine
- Umano - Audio version
- BuzzOrange - Chinese
- Q Daily - Chinese
- That Smart - Russian
- Venit de Bază Necondiționat - Romanian
- Courrier International - French
- Red Paper Plane - Bulgarian
- El Confidencial - Spanish
Featured Articles
- What if you got $1,000 a month, just for being alive? I decided to find out. - Vox
- Robots will take your job - Boston Globe
- The progressive case for replacing the welfare state with basic income - TechCrunch
- Why Switzerland’s basic income idea is not crazy - Politico
- Will automated trucks be a job killer? – Yes, they will. - 2025 AD
- Trickle-Down Economics Must Die. Long Live Grow-Up Economics - The Huffington Post
- True Freedom Comes With Basic Income - Eros Media
Books Authored or Coauthored
Published Op-Ed Pieces
- My Huffington Post Blog - HuffPo
- Free money: would a basic income create a fairer society? - Positive News
- Facebook’s Purchase of Oculus is the New Best Example of 21st Century Inequality and the Need for Unconditional Basic Income - BIEN
- Basic Income Day is a Great Idea, and Especially on May Day! - BIEN
Written For
Past and Present Campaigns
- Wrote one of the first "We the People" petitions to get a response from the White House - White House
- Wrote and campaigned for UBI to be the 83rd most voted of 2,000+ ideas in the Big Ideas Project - Think Big
- Organized 1st successful Thunderclap for May Day 2014 - Thunderclap
- Organized 2nd successful Thunderclap for May Day 2015 - Thunderclap
- Organized 3rd successful Thunderclap for May Day 2016 - Thunderclap
- Add a #Basicincome hashtag to your profile photos - Twibbon
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Where I've Worked
- Self-employed since 1997 - Website and Social Media Management
- Human Interaction With Nature and Technological Systems Lab (The HINTS Lab) - Research Assistant
- Telect, Inc. - Technical Support Specialist
- Packard Bell - Technical Support Expert
