Category: Basic Income

London’s transport authority says it will not renew Uber’s licence to operate in the British capital, arguing that it demonstrates a lack of corporate responsibility with implications for public safety and security.

Transport for London (TfL) says the ride-booking app was not "fit and proper to hold a private hire operator licence".

It cited its approach to handling serious criminal offences and its use of software to block regulatory bodies from gaining full access to the app, preventing "officials from undertaking regulator or law enforcement duties". TfL has today informed Uber that it will not be issued with a private hire […]

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The NDP leadership contenders, from left to right: Ontario MPP Jagmeet Singh, Quebec MP Guy Caron, Ontario MP Charlie Angus, Manitoba MP Niki Ashton. (Canadian Press ) Voting is now underway to elect a new federal NDP leader, with the winner to be announced next month.

CBC News Network’s Power & Politics has interviewed each of the four remaining candidates to see where they’ll take the party in the approach to the 2019 election. Charlie Angus

The MP for Timmins-James Bay in Northern Ontario says he’ll pursue laws to cap greenhouse gas emissions coming from companies:"I come from mining country. […]

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Photo credit: Paul Miller, CC BY 2.0. Last year, I wrote about startup incubator Y Combinator launching a plan to distribute basic income to people in Oakland, California. They were going to give people no-strings-attached cash and then see if they started volunteering, becoming creators instead of employees, etc.

My biggest concern? They weren’t going to give people enough money. I don’t know how much income Y Combinator is planning to distribute, but it may be an income that still requires people to keep that job they hate, live in a dumpy apartment, etc. It takes a lot of income […]

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A coalition of Saudi Arabia, the United States, the United Kingdom and the United Arab Emirates, with minor support from several other Middle Eastern nations, has relentlessly bombed Yemen since March 2015. This August, the coalition ramped up the ferocity of its airstrikes, killing dozens of civilians.

On August 23, the US/Saudi coalition bombed a hotel near Yemen’s capital Sanaa, killing 41 people, 33 of whom—80 percent—were civilians, according to the United Nations.
Then on […]

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Would everyone be better off with a basic income for all? 0 By VIEW editor Brian Pelan I keep heading back to the Ormeau Baths in Belfast.

I learnt to swim there as a child. I went back a few years ago to see an exhibition by the artist Brian Ballard,

I was there again last night to watch the documentary Free Lunch Society which examined the argument for a basic income for all citizens.The event was hosted by New Notions Cinema, which was set up by a media collective. On their website they describe themselves as screening films “for […]

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Bündnis Grundeinkommen gathering at Brandenburg gate. Credit to: Enno Schmidt and Bündnis Grundeinkommen

The Bündnis Grundeinkommen, Germany’s political party campaigning on the single issue of introducing a basic income in the country, has held an open air event in preparation to participate in their first national election .

Hosted together with Kulturimpuls Grundeinkommen eV (a German broadcaster), the event took place on July 29th at the Brandenburg Gate, Berlin . There was a celebratory tone to the day with music provided by Kiezkneipenorchester , Juri di Marco and Bertram Burkert , and entertainment in the form of slacklining, by world […]

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Jordan Peterson, cultural critic, psychologist, and member of the Self Authoring online service, gave his remarks on Universal Basic Income. His concerns seem to be largely drawn from a similar issue critics have with the idea, primarily in the face of leisure time: will people become lazy and unmotivated? Can people handle a life with none of the traditional burdens we normally face with work as it is? Where will people map out meaning in their lives?

All of these are fair questions, and Peterson seems to be open to the idea. A concern Peterson addresses is the rise of […]

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The Opportunities Party leader Gareth Morgan is adamant his party will make it to the Beehive, despite polling well below the five percent threshold needed to make it into Parliament. Gareth Morgan, James Shaw Mr Morgan made the comments after the Greens asked TOP supporters for their party vote, saying a vote for TOP would be a wasted vote.

Green Party leader James Shaw made the pitch to voters yesterday afternoon, arguing the election was too close for any vote to be lost.

"People who are considering voting for The Opportunities Party, they care about climate change, they care about closing […]

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Think there’s no such thing as free money?

Think again.

Big-shot Silicon Valley investor Sam Altman — known for his doomsday prepping and other off-the-wall ideas — is planning to give 3,000 randomly selected people free money for five years, as an expansion of a social experiment he started last year.The idea is called universal basic income, and it basically means a government, rich individual or other source gives everyone in a community enough money to live comfortably — regardless of whether the recipients work or not. Altman has championed the idea as a possible solution for when robots take our […]

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Tech startup fund Y Combinator has announced plans for a new basic income trial in the United States. The experiment could yield valuable new insights regarding universal basic income’s potential to address job loss due to automation. $1,000 for 1,000

Startup incubator Y Combinator is expanding their research into the benefits of universal basic income (UBI) .

In a new blog post published on the company’s website this week, they reveal their plans to pick 3,000 individuals from two states at random to receive a monthly cash handout. 1,000 participants will receive $1,000 per month for a period up to […]

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