Category: Basic Income

According to a United Nations (U.N.) report , inequality is rising in both developed and developing countries. Many people lack access to basic healthcare, clean water and food. For example, the U.S. has the largest economy in the world yet ranks second in income inequality out of the 32 developed countries indexed by the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).

It is apparent that poverty, inequality and access to healthcare are transnational issues that know no boundaries. Each year, more and more jobs become automated. Artificial intelligence is taking the place of blue collar jobs all over the world. […]

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Between now and the end of Donald Trump’s first term in 2020, it’s likely millions of jobs in America will be lost to automation, software and robots. Depending on how fast technology evolves, that human job-loss number might even rival that of the Great Recession of 2007, where more than eight million people were put out of work , and America’s banking system nearly collapsed.

By 2030, the job losses will likely be in the tens of millions . McDonald’s will flip burgers with machines, Amazon will deliver packages with drones and taxis will all be self-driving. Even white-collars jobs, […]

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Shared from TechCrunch Zoltan Istvan is a futurist and 2018 California gubernatorial candidate of the Libertarian Party.

Between now and the end of Donald Trump’s first term in 2020, it’s likely millions of jobs in America will be lost to automation, software and robots. Depending on how fast technology evolves, that human job-loss number might even rival that of the Great Recession of 2007, where more than eight million people were put out of work , and America’s banking system nearly collapsed.

By 2030, the job losses will likely be in the tens of millions . McDonald’s will flip burgers with […]

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CRAPITALISM (iatrogenic vs. livable economics) Police tried to disperse protesters Will Automation Take Our Jobs? – Scientific American India 2012: Basic Income Pilot Project Seattle Socialist Group Pushing $15/Hour Minimum Wage Posts Job With $13/Hour Wage | Free Beacon, 10-16-14 | "Seattle-based group The Freedom Socialist Party, which owns socialism.com and regularly campaigns for a $15/hour minimum wage, advertised a job on Wednesday that offers just $13 an hour." ~ Typical liberal hypocrisy!!! Filme: O Rendimento Básico – Um impulso Cultural Unconditional Basic Income. People still work if they want to, but basic needs are provided. Imagine that. AAV: […]

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One of the criticisms leveled against Universal Basic Income is that it is too big a change. But if anything it is not enough of a change. Why? Because it is just one part that needs to change and human societies are systems of interlocking parts. That means many other parts will need to change also. Importantly we have already changed everything about how humanity lives twice already.

In the transition from the Forager Age to the Agrarian Age, humanity went from migratory to sedentary, from promiscuous to monogamous, from flat societies to hierarchical ones, from animism to the great […]

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People’s Potato as an example of alternative work organization in the world of Unconditional Basic Income (UBI)

This is the second part of a series proposing a reform of public services to be included in the UBI reform package (first part here ). This article presents a model of organizing production based on spontaneous work contribution to the commons so that citizens’ participation is facilitated. Re-organizing work in such a way so that people want to contribute, but without being forced by the necessity to earn a living, should become part of the UBI movement’s agenda.

Certainly, citizens living solely […]

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"They’re just lazy." "They should just get a job." The subtext is: poor people deserve to be poor. If they just tried harder or made better decisions, they’d make it. But 4.9 million Canadians live in poverty. Is it really what they deserve?

The job market is like a game of musical chairs. And since we depend on employment to stay out of poverty, it’s like playing over hot coals. Traditional 40-hour week, full-time jobs, are becoming scarce. Meanwhile, automation is removing chairs from the game. Cars can now drive themselves.

But it’s not just taxi and […]

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This is the typical uninformed "conservative" outlook. As I stated before, and something that can be easily googled in about 5 seconds, homeless people cost the taxpayer more than this. That’s only the monetary costs, then there is the social issues ect ect. Since I […]

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A debate has arisen about the definition of basic income and the facts that support the movement. To contribute my input to the debate, I feel the need to respond, line by line, to Francine Mestrum’s latest article published on Social Europe. The facts of the basic income movement | Basic Income News A debate has arisen about the definition of basic income and the facts that support the movement. To contribute my input to the debate, I feel the need to respond, line by line, to Francine Mestrum’s latest article published on Social Europe.

Labor policy researcher Anne Gray […]

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