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Looking Back on 30 Years of BIEN: Stories from Life Members

Looking Back on 30 Years of BIEN: Stories from Life Members

This year, BIEN celebrated the 30th anniversary of its birth . In commemoration of the occasion, founding members reunited at its birthplace–the Université Catholique de Louvain in Louvain-la-Neuve, Beglium–for a series of talks on the past and future of BIEN and the basic income movement.

At the end of the year, all Life Members of BIEN were invited to reflect on their own personal histories with the organization and movement. Read their stories here:

• Hyosang Ahn (Director of Basic Income Korea Network; South Korea): “The first time I encountered the idea of basic income was the summer of 2007. I […]

Apple manufacturer Foxconn to convert its workforce into robots

Apple manufacturer Foxconn to convert its workforce into robots

Foxconn , One of Apple’s Original Equipment Manufacturers, plans to automate its workforce in their factories in China in the upcoming years, according to the company’s General Manager for the Automation Technology Development Committee, Dai Jia-peng.

A report from Digitimes established that this large manufacturer plans the automation in a three-phase program, Jia-peng said. In this scheme, the objective is to replace the human workforce for what they have called “Foxbots.” These robots will use a special unique software and will function as in-house robotic equipment. Foxconn plans to replace its human workforce for what they have called “Foxbots.” Photo […]

If Foxconn’s Chinese Factories Are Now Automating Then Those Apple Jobs Are Never Coming Back

Some years back President Obama asked Steve Jobs about all those Apple assembly jobs being done in those vast sheds in China. More specifically, he wanted to know whether those jobs would come back to the United States, was there some way they could be brought back perhaps. And Steve Jobs’ response was simply that those jobs are never coming back. This is not something specific to Apple, nor China, either. Mass employment in assembly of anything is just not something that is ever going to happen in a rich country any more. It’s cheaper to use machines to […]

BIEN Stories: Steven Shafarman

BIEN Stories: Steven Shafarman

“Toward Basic Income and a Peaceful Democratic Revolution”

By Steven Shafarman

My drive to enact a basic income – and most of my ideas about how to attract, educate, organize, and mobilize allies – arose from exploring the way young children learn to walk and talk.I first wrote about these ideas, though without the term basic income , in the mid 1980s, inspired by the analogy of “the body politic” and Abraham Maslow’s “hierarchy of needs.” Young children, as they learn to walk, outgrow crawling and leave it behind. Their basic needs are provided by parents or other […]

A Canadian Province Just Passed a Resolution for Universal Basic Income

IN BRIEF The four political party leaders in PEI unanimously supported the decision to establish a program that would guarantee all citizens a basic income.

A UBI could potentially decrease poverty, improve health, reduce crime, and raise education levels at a time when increased job loss is imminent due to advances in technology.

UBI FOR PEIThe government of Prince Edward Island (PEI) has taken a major step forward toward the implementation of a universal basic income (UBI) for citizens of the small Canadian province as state legislature has approved the proposed initiative .The four political party leaders in PEI […]

Basic income is spreading across the worldbut at the root of its

Basic income is spreading across the worldbut at the root of its

Basic income is spreading across the world—but at the root of its controversy is an existential struggle. What Would Happen If We Just Gave People Money? Here’s The New First Lady, Melania Trump Stunning Asian Ladies Looking for Older American Men View all comments on facebook

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Dyer: With automation (not trade or immigrants, as Trump claims) taking jobs, it’s time to consider a universal basic income

Dyer: With automation (not trade or immigrants, as Trump claims) taking jobs, it’s time to consider a universal basic income

The main message of 2016 was that we are entering a period of economic and political upheaval comparable to the industrial revolution of 1780-1850, and nothing expressed that message more clearly than Donald Trump’s appointment of Andrew Puzder as secretary of labour — even though it’s clear that neither man understands the message.

Puzder bears a large part of the responsibility for giving space for Trump’s election promise to “bring back” America’s lost industrial jobs: seven million in the past 35 years. That’s what created the Rust Belt and the popular anger that put Trump in power.

Puzder is a fast-food […]

A stronger economy won’t save obsolete jobs

A stronger economy won't save obsolete jobs

Automated robots build a 2015 Chrysler 200 automobile at the Sterling Heights Assembly Plant in Sterling Heights, Mich., in March 2014. In South Africa, people who speak Afrikaans use the word "robot" to mean the same thing it means in English. But it is also the word for "traffic light." Why? Before automated signals, motorists on busy streets were directed by police officers standing on platforms. Those cops were automated out of a job.

This bit of trivia comes from the dazzling new book "Bourgeois Equality: How Ideas, Not Capital or Institutions, Enriched the World," by University of Illinois at […]

iPhone manufacturer Foxconn plans to replace almost every human worker with robots

iPhone manufacturer Foxconn plans to replace almost every human worker with robots

Foxconn, the Taiwanese manufacturing giant behind Apple’s iPhone and numerous other major electronics devices, aims to automate away a vast majority of its human employees, according to a report from DigiTimes . Dai Jia-peng, the general manager of Foxconn’s automation committee, says the company has a three-phase plan in place to automate its Chinese factories using software and in-house robotics units, known as Foxbots.

The first phase of Foxconn’s automation plans involve replacing the work that is either dangerous or involves repetitious labor humans are unwilling to do. The second phase involves improving efficiency by streamlining production lines to reduce […]

Basic Income Is Coming, Let’s Pay For It With Legal Drugs

Basic Income Is Coming, Let’s Pay For It With Legal Drugs

FUCKING COMMUNISM! BLASPHEMY!

I know what you’re thinking- get this goddamn liberal horse shit out of here – but hear me out. Karl Marx can suck a dick. Reagan’s immortal soul will trickle down from heaven for eternity, praised be his name, Amen.

The Great American Experiment has been chuggin’ along just fine for centuries now. Socialism and all the other left wing–isms have failed throughout history, time and time again.Socialism is a broken record of human stupidity.Some say this time round is no different. Any socialist shit will eventually be flushed down the toilets of history as another failed experiment […]