Category: Basic Income

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One of the biggest VCs in Silicon Valley is launching an experiment that will give 3,000 people free money until 2022

Y Combinator, the largest and most prestigious startup accelerator in Silicon Valley, has announced new details of its upcoming experiment to give Americans free money. YC will select 3,000 people across two states and divide them into two groups. The first group will include 1,000 people who will receive $1,000 a month for up to five years. The second group of 2,000 people — which the study will consider its control group […]

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Rimac is planning on introducing an even more advanced hypercar in the future times. This will outdo all the others in matters having to do with structure and function.

Rimac will unveil its supercar by the time 2018 comes ambling along. It will not only be more comfy but costlier than the Concept One. The performance of this vehicle will be tops.

Termed the Concept Two, it will not bear this title when it comes out though, according to AutoCar . While it will be more spacious, it will still have two seats inside it for the passengers. Plans […]

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Chief Economic Advisor Arvind Subramanian. | Photo Credit: Chief Economic Adviser (CEA) Arvind Subramanian, who had planned to return to the U.S. after his three-year tenure ended on October 16, has been persuaded by the government to stay back for another year.

Official orders to this effect will be issued soon, Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said on Saturday, putting an end to rumours about Dr. Subramanian’s resignation.

“All the speculation in the media is factually incorrect. The CEA’s first three-year tenure ends on October 16. I have already signed the file, and you will soon be getting a formal release […]

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The Expanse is a series of science fiction novels that is also now a TV series with two seasons available to watch so far. In this universe, in the not too distant future, humanity has moved beyond Earth to extend its reach throughout the entire solar system. Mars is an independent military power, asteroids and various moons throughout the system are colonized, and Earth is a planet with 30 billion people where only half the population has a job. The solution to technological unemployment in this universe, and only available on Earth, is something called "basic support," commonly referred […]

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On Monday, former Vice President Joe Biden wrote a blog post that proves two things: Blogging isn’t dead and neither is Biden’s political career. In fact, in Biden’s essay, and in other little-noticed public pronouncements, you can see him sculpting a role for in the 2020 presidential campaign that perhaps only he could get away with playing: the voice of anti-populism.

Though Biden’s essay was largely ignored amid the constant hum of Trump-related stories, it made a bit of news in wonk circles because Biden used it to announce his opposition to a “universal basic income,” that newly vogue policy […]

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Joe Biden. Credit to: GQ.

Joe Biden , Obama’s ex-vice president, is confident that the reinforcement of the job-centered culture is the answer to the challenges already affecting work marketplaces in the US, as written in his blog at the Biden Institute. He supports this vision instead of the idea increasingly put forward by Silicon Valley moguls: unconditional basic income.

Biden, recalling his father’s words, wrote that he considers jobs to not only be a source of income, but also and foremost about “human dignity and self-respect”. Given that starting position, he is campaigning for an American economy that grows […]

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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 record slackliner Alexander Schulz . Guest speakers included: Prof. Dr. Sascha Liebermann , Head of Education and Social Change in The Department of Education at Alanus College in Germany, Dr. Liebermann was one of the first advocates of UBI in Germany and adopted the campaign slogan “freedom […]

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