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"What do we do about drug users with basic incomes?"
Any discussion about basic income and drug use first needs to be informed by learning more about drug users and their actual behavior. To start with, please first read this: The Rational Choices of Crack Addicts [http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/17/science/the-rational-choices-of-crack-addicts.html?pagewanted=all] > [Dr.
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 [https://letstalkbitcoin.com/blog/category/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
New Medium Article: Notes of Discussions in the North American Basic Income Guarantee Congress of 2015
Read the article I published on Medium [https://medium.com/basic-income/notes-of-discussions-in-the-north-american-basic-income-guarantee-congress-of-2015-56607ceb9362] on March 23rd, 2015. Summary: This is what I've spent the past three weeks writing. It's a full summary of the North American Basic Income Congress I attended in NYC earlier this month. I
The Water Room Analogy
"You want to even give basic income to the rich?! That doesn't make any sense at all because they don't need it, it'll cost more, and you'll be taxing them only to give it back to them." This a common
Robot Overlordz Podcast Appearance
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 [https://robotoverlordz.fm/show/200-ep00153-notes]. My thanks to the guys over at Robot Overlordz for having me on the show!
What I've observed since 2013 in the discussion about a basic income guarantee
As I publish this on the eve of the 14th Annual North American Basic Income Congress in New York this weekend [https://www.facebook.com/events/1545751005694031/], which I will be attending thanks to the amazing support from my patrons [https://www.patreon.com/scottsantens?ty=p], and even heading
Guess What Happened When Liberia Tested a Pilot Program of Cash Transfers to the Extreme Poor in Bomi
I'm always on the lookout for more scientific evidence of what happens when people are provided cash incomes unconditionally. Recently I found something new, a pilot program tested in Bomi and Maryland Counties in Liberia [http://www.unicef.org/liberia/Transformative_Transfers_LiberiaCashTransferProgramme.pdf] that started in 2009
“If we no longer force people to work to meet their basic needs, won’t they stop working?”
Acknowledging our one option society What underlies a question like this is that it’s okay to force people to work by withholding what they need to live, in order to force them to work for us. And at the same time, because they are forced, we don’t even
Is It Actually Possible to Live on a Basic Income of $12,000 Per Year?
As you may already know, I'm actively crowdfunding a basic income of $12,000 per year, and am currently about 20% of the way there [http://www.patreon.com/scottsantens]. (Thank you, Patreon patrons [https://www.patreon.com/scottsantens?ty=p]!) I chose this amount because I advocate
Debunking the Debunking of "Humans Need Not Apply" and More
This gif [http://i.imgur.com/0E0Wnlt.gifv] is the kind of imagery that gets our attention and gets us all wondering [http://www.reddit.com/r/gifs/comments/2vey03/amazons_robot_army/] about what is going to happen to the people who did these jobs now being done by