Category: Basic Income

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and other large and diverse nations or regions? Key words: Sweden, basic income, welfare state, Swedish Model. Photograph: Guenter Artinger/EPA. Basic income was debated in Sweden in the 1970s and 1980s, mostly thanks to influences from abroad, Samtal om basinkomst, Lund – Måndag 8 februari. of trials already taking place in places like California and Sweden. 538 views; 1 year ago. Jan 24, 2017 Around the world, governments and nonprofit organizations are discovering through basic income trials what happens when you give people Jun 5, 2016 Voters in Switzerland overwhelmingly reject a plan to introduce a guaranteed basic income […]

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| Universal Basic Income – Another Angry Voice.

Whether it is because of a sense of guilt at the upheavals they are causing in society or simply a celebration of innovative thinking, some Silicon Valley entrepreneurs have taken to the idea of a universal basic income, describing it as a “digital dividend”. History of basic income. A Basic Income for children aged 0-4 of £4,290 for the first child and £3,387 for other children aged 0-4. This is comparable to the benefits available to low-income households before the child begins school. There would be a reduction in the Basic […]

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There is so much good stuff in the Aeon piece “Why the idea that the world is in terminal decline is so dangerous” by Princeton’s Jeremy Adelman. Many of the systemic errors made by gloom-and-doomers in the past really seem to parallel what is happening today. The inability to see incremental advances. (Like the steady decline in joblessness.) Either-or thinking. (Tax cuts are the difference between a future of sunlit uplands or a thousand of years of darkness!) Being enraptured by sweeping solutions. (Scrap the tax code! Time for a universal basic income!)

From the piece: Declinisms share some traits. […]

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A team of Russian developers who has successfully implemented several IT projects in the past, recently launched the BIG.Foundation platform. The platform is a project based on the blockchain technology concept, allowing any person to receive unconditional basic income, regardless of their social status, age, gender, status, etc.

The concept of unconditional main income (UMI) for an ordinary person is obviously attractive: every user of the system receives regular payments of a certain amount of money from the country or another institution.

The concept itself has been known since the 16th century. For the existence of an unconditional basic income (UBI), […]

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A popular argument for the introduction of a Universal Basic Income is that it will become necessary in the face of increasing automation. As machines can perform ever more tasks, the demand for human labour will fall, inevitably resulting in increasing unemployment. Taken to a purported logical conclusion, at some point the economy can be entirely automated removing the need for work entirely even as cheap mass production continues, resulting in post-scarcity . Without some other major reform, such as Universal Basic Services, proponents suggest a UBI is necessary to ensure everyone can have their needs met in a […]

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