1 Comment I’ve been in Longyearbyen for a few days now, and it is an interesting city from almost any standpoint (at least my staindpoints). The thing that struck me the most after taking a short stroll through the city, is that parts of the community here could be used as a “stencil” for an idealised version of how universal basic income (UBI) might work.
I’ve previously written another post about UBI, and you can find it here:
To understand why, you need to understand where Longyearbyen and Svalbard started.In the beginning, the primary settlements in Svalbard were mining communities. Svalbard […]
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