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Deep Learning Is Going to Teach Us All the Lesson of Our Lives: Jobs Are for Machines
(An alternate version of this article was originally published in the Boston Globe) [http://www.bostonglobe.com/ideas/2016/02/24/robots-will-take-your-job/5lXtKomQ7uQBEzTJOXT7YO/story.html] On December 2nd, 1942, a team of scientists led by Enrico Fermi came back from lunch and watched as humanity created the first self-sustaining nuclear
The Social Network and Basic Income
There's something I do every single day, throughout the day, even on weekends, and I've done it since 2013. There's a reason I do it beyond what might be typically presumed, and the basis for that reason is my appreciation for complex systems theory
YouTube as an Intrinsic Motivation Window
As I've blogged about previously, being a cord cutter I watch YouTube instead of TV, and it's because of this I think I don't see people in the same way many do, where there's a mistaken belief people do nothing unless paid
Inequality and the Basic Income Guarantee
This essay is part of a collection of 37 from the Wicked Problems Collaborative [http://www.wickedproblemscollaborative.com/] of which I’m part, titled “What Do We Do About Inequality?” The book is available on Amazon [http://amzn.to/2bRRDGP] in Kindle and paperback formats. The use of cash transfers
Robots Will Take Your Jobs
My first ever article to be published in the Boston Globe is now available online. It's titled "Robots Will Take Your Job" [http://www.bostonglobe.com/ideas/2016/02/24/robots-will-take-your-job/5lXtKomQ7uQBEzTJOXT7YO/story.html] . For those in and around the Boston area, this story will also
The Disproportionate Effects of a Universal Basic Income
One very interesting but not so easy to understand element of universal basic income [https://medium.com/working-life/why-should-we-support-the-idea-of-an-unconditional-basic-income-8a2680c73dd3] is how it disproportionately helps traditionally marginalized groups more than anyone else. That sentence alone may be confusing. If everyone gets the same amount, how can one group benefit more than
On the Record: Bernie Sanders on Basic Income
There’s an increasing number of people asking Bernie Sanders if he supports the idea of universal basic income. You may be surprised to learn that he has in fact directly responded to these questions on multiple occasions, once even to a question posed to him myself. This first exchange
Basic Income Observations Log: Entry One
If you're reading this as a subscriber to my blog or as one of my followers on Twitter [https://twitter.com/2noame] or Facebook [https://facebook.com/scottsantens], you likely already know this, but if you're new to my writing, you may not yet know that
Robin Hoodwinked: How Billion Dollar Powerballs Reflect 21st Century Inequality
State lotteries take from the poor to give to the rich, but we have options and there is a game-changing alternative - basic income Back in 2015, I drove past the same sign I drive past daily, but looked at it with fresh eyes. It was a Powerball sign and
Who Wants a Free Sample of Basic Income?
One thing I've learned so far in observing the world increasingly discuss the idea of basic income, is that this discussion, as is true with any discussion, can be like the Telephone Game [http://www.wikihow.com/Play-the-Telephone-Game]. A reported fact can be tweeted, blogged, shared, re-reported, re-blogged,