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Will the Cost of Basic Income be Borne on the Shoulders of the American Middle Class?
There are many arguments against the idea of an unconditional basic income [http://www.scottsantens.com/basic-income-faq], most based on a complete lack of any actual research. These arguments happen to be entirely logical, and even plausible, but simply aren't supported by the evidence that has already been
Whitepaper and wallet now available for Universal Basic Income cryptocurrency "Manna", formerly known as Grantcoin
On January 29, 2018, The People's Currency Foundation [http://peoplescurrency.org/] (a U.S.-based 501(c)(3) nonprofit) published their whitepaper for Manna [http://www.grantcoin.org/documents/manna-whitepaper.pdf], a relaunching of the basic income cryptocurrency formerly known as Grantcoin [http://www.grantcoin.org/], which was
Top 10 Basic Income Videos of 2017
I've done a top ten list of basic income articles for both 2016 [http://www.scottsantens.com/top-10-basic-income-articles-of-2016] & 2017 [http://www.scottsantens.com/top-10-basic-income-articles-of-2017], but this is the first time I've put together a top ten list of basic income videos. There were so many
Top 10 Basic Income Articles of 2017
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
Someday we will look back and interpret the Constitution as having called for unconditional basic income all along
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
What would I do if everyone had a basic income?
> 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
The Real Story of Automation Beginning with One Simple Chart
Robots are hiding in plain sight. It’s time we stop ignoring them. There’s a chart I came across in 2017, and not only does it tell an extremely important story about automation, but it also tells a story about the state of the automation discussion itself. It even
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
Stop Teaching Students WHAT to Think. Teach Them HOW to Think.
For more than a century, we've been creating an industrial workforce of human automatons, built for the purpose of performing routine labor not yet doable by machines. And we've been operating with the mindset that we should teach students the same way we program actual machines.
The Expanse's Basic Support vs. Basic Income
The Expanse is a series of science fiction novels [http://amzn.to/2fGiLas] that is also now a TV series [http://amzn.to/2wMJjwx] with two seasons available to watch so far. In this universe, in the not too distant future, humanity has moved beyond Earth to extend its reach
