Category: Basic Income

Scott Santens is a writer and advocate of universal basic income for all. He is the moderator of the Basic Income community on Reddit and Founder of the BIG Patreon Creator Pledge. His writing has been featured in the Atlantic and Huffington Post.

Daniel Araya: Scott, everyone seems to be talking about universal basic income as a way to resolve technological unemployment. How do you define basic income? How did you come to embrace the idea of basic income?

Scott Santens: I define basic income as a universal income floor set above the poverty level. It’s essentially a […]

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The Universal Basic Income Edition My good friend, Jason Michael McCann, has taken on this difficult topic and says this on his blog, The Random Public Journal –

A Universal Basic Income is in the pipeline for a trial in Fife. People, regardless of how much they earn, will get an annual basic sum in cash to spend as they please. Experiments over the past forty years have shown that it works. Lucky Fife.

We’re all getting poorer. As it is the economy pretty much everywhere is structured in a way that benefits a tiny minority of the […]

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President Obama and Mark Zuckerberg in 2011 President Obama and Mark Zuckerberg in 2011

Tomorrow, the White House will partner with Stanford University and the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative — a limited liability corporation launched by the CEO of Facebook and his wife — to co-host the Summit on Poverty and Opportunity, a two-day, invite-only event held on the school’s campus. It will focus on using technology and innovation to address issues like poverty, inequality, and economic immobility. The event will include an interactive demo by Palantir, the secretive Peter Thiel-backed analytics company, on how a real-time data platform can […]

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Basic income actually helps solidify capitalism believe or not. These capitalists supporters are embarrassing under equipped on their own economic system. In fact every capitalist should be cheering it on, especially if they are Malthusian and Keynesian. So how does basic income help solidify Capitalism, and shouldn’t ever be associated with such Socialist thought?

Basic income isn’t supposed to be thought as payment from a vacuum, it works exactly like the capitalist system only that the recipients are expanded. In fact many capitalists and liberal thinkers do want to support it. Why is that, is it because of this automation […]

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A member of Angela Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union wants parents in Germany to receive a basic income regardless of their means. But this shouldn’t be confused with universal basic income, she said. It wouldn’t be the first progressive idea to be taken on by conservatives. A group of Bundestag members in the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) have proposed offering parents a basic state income – independent of their own financial situation.

The fixed monthly payment, the exact amount of which was not mentioned, would be tied to child care costs and would be subject to social insurance contributions.

The payment, part […]

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Citizen’s Basic Income Network logo One of the most exciting developments of the last year has been the creation of a Citizen’s Basic Income Network ( CBIN ) in Scotland. Bringing together a wide range of people who have an interest, and who have done work on citizen’s income, the group has been working on how to promote the idea of a citizen’s income, universal income or basic income. It builds on the excellent work of Guy Standing, and of the RSA’s Anthony Painter . And in Scotland on the work of Professor Ailsa Mackay, Annie Miller, Willie Sullivan, […]

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Ahead of the launch of a new organisation in Scotland, campaigner Ben Simmons says a basic income would have a positive knock-on effect in the economy and society

LAST WEEK, BBC Scotland ran a series of articles on #unequalscotland, which is of course good to see, including an interview with Professor David Bell who has written about basic income previously .

When I first heard about basic income I thought about it as a fairly narrow idea around reforming benefits to make them simpler , but it actually makes more sense to me to think of it as a […]

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The Goenchi Mati Movement advocates for the reform of mining practices in the Indian state of Goa. Its proposals include the investment of all money from iron ore mining into a permanent fund, which would be used to finance a citizen’s dividend.

Similar to Alaska’s Permanent Fund Dividend, the fund’s income would be distributed equally to all citizens in the form of an unconditional cash grant, providing all Goans with a basic income.

Founded in 2014, the Goenchi Mati Movement (GMM) aspires to reform mining practices that it believes to deprive residents of Goa their deserved share of […]

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British journalist and broadcaster Paul Mason, author of Post-Capitalism: A Guide to Our Future , recently delivered a lecture in Amsterdam in which he points out the need for a universal basic income as a partial solution to changes in the economy due to new technologies. He raises related concerns in an article in The Guardian published shortly thereafter.

On October 25, author Paul Mason delivered a lecture at the De Balie culture center in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, wherein he argues that technological advancement has been not only correlated with but in fact a cause of economic stagnation. He […]

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