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A Pandemic is a Great Time to Stop Ignoring Unpaid Care Work
Care work is work. We need to recognize it and support it with monthly income. Unpaid care work is work. I want to make that clear first and foremost. However, it’s also more than that. It’s a kind of work that can’t really be measured like wage
2020 Revealed That Unconditional Basic Income Cannot Wait Any Longer
Everything seemed to change in 2020, and yet in very important ways, what really needed to didn’t, which is what must change. It’s time to finally live up to our founding ideals as a nation with a monthly investment in the lifelong economic security of all Americans. Millions
Escaping the Cult Commander in Chief
Biden is in and Trump is out, but it's nowhere near the end of our problems as a democracy in dire need of systemic reforms and more widely shared prosperity As I write this, I worry about how the coming days will unfold leading up to January 20,
Basic Income as Liquid Infrastructure: The Bruce Lee Argument for UBI
"Be formless, shapeless, like water. You put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle, it becomes the bottle. You put water into a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend.” - Bruce
An Engineering Argument for Basic Income
This post is also available in Spanish [https://www.rentabasicauniversal.es/2020/11/02/el-argumento-desde-la-ingenieria-para-una-renta-basica-incondicional/] and Czech [https://tribun.red/2021/02/01/inzenyrske-argumenty-pro-zakladni-prijem/] due to the volunteer work of translators. Thank you to everyone who submits [scott@scottsantens.com] a translation for me to add here. (Optional Audio: click
Should we support the many basic income experiments that aren't actually testing UBI?
Questioning the strategy of non-universal cash grant pilot experiments This debate is nothing new, but I’m seeing more of it as more and more mayors get on board with launching guaranteed income pilots in their cities. The count right now is 25 U.S. mayors [https://www.mayorsforagi.org/
With UBI, won't people just watch TV and play video games?
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- (Click here to listen to this argument as a 13-minute podcast episode) [https://anchor.fm/scottsantens/episodes/The-Quentin-Tarantino-Argument-for-Universal-Basic-Income-UBI-ens0u4] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "If we give everyone basic income, people will do nothing but watch TV and play video games." I've heard and read this more times than I
Why I'm voting for Biden/Harris 2020
Because Trump needs to go, because we need campaign finance reform, and because of the potential for fully refundable tax credits and monthly stimulus checks in 2021 In 1996, at age 19, I made my first decision as a citizen of the United States as to who the next president
We need UBI because we all need money, power, and trust
Inhumanity reigns so long as we don’t trust each other with the power to choose the directions of our own lives, free of economic coercion I've written before about how besides just being a good idea with a lot of evidence-based reasons to support it, unconditional basic
My Speech at the People's Convention
On August 30, 2020, the Movement for a People's Party [https://peoplesparty.org/] held their first People's Convention [https://peoplesconvention.org/]. I was asked to give a speech alongside other invited speakers like Nina Turner, Cornel West, Marianne Williamson, and many others. The purpose of the