Whitepaper and wallet now available for Universal Basic Income cryptocurrency "Manna", formerly known as Grantcoin
On January 29, 2018, The People's Currency Foundation (a U.S.-based 501(c)(3) nonprofit) published their whitepaper for Manna, a relaunching of the basic income cryptocurrency formerly known as Grantcoin, which was the first publicly traded blockchain currency to be distributed universally to all those verified as unique . . .
Top 10 Basic Income Videos of 2017
A look back at this year's best UBI videos
I've done a top ten list of basic income articles for both 2016 & 2017, but this is the first time I've put together a top ten list of basic income videos. There were so many new UBI videos created this year (you can watch most of them here), but in my opinion, the following are the ones that absolutely must be watched . . .
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Top 10 Basic Income Articles of 2017
A look back at this year's best UBI reads
As a moderator of the /r/BasicIncome subreddit, I read a lot of links every year about the idea of unconditional basic income, hundreds actually. Once again, as I did last year, I've compiled a list of the ten articles/papers/reports I consider the most important to read out of everything published this year. Please bookmark, . . .
Someday we will look back and interpret the Constitution as having called for unconditional basic income all along
An open reply to Grant Cordone
A blog post by Grant Cordone was brought to my attention recently to which I replied on LinkedIn. To summarize what he wrote, it was an argument that basic income is not in the Constitution of the United States, and is thus anti-freedom and a terrible idea because people should be pulling on their bootstraps like he did instead of being . . .
What would I do if everyone had a basic income?
My own answer to the BIG question
What would you do if you had an unconditional basic income?
I regularly ask people this question, because the answer is the true definition of basic income. Basic income isn't really about the money. It's about what money enables us to do in our lives that we'd otherwise be prevented from doing without enough . . .
New on Medium: "The Real Story of Automation Beginning with One Simple Chart"
Technological unemployment is hiding in plain sight
I've just published a new feature-length article on Medium centered around the chart below.
To read all about it, please head on over to Medium to read it, "applaud" it so as to improve its visibility, and share it widely. Thanks!
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Unconditional Basic Income is a Pigovian Subsidy for Unpaid Work
There's something about unpaid work that I've never actually seen discussed, and that's the cost of the work that's paid...
Take for example the amount of unpaid care work in the US that's estimated as being around $700 billion per year (and mostly done by women). That's an invisible work force . . .