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Chris Hughes, the Co-Founder of Facebook has just launched a $10 million dollar 2 year long initiative aimed at analyzing universal basic income.

Announced on December 8 th , the Economic Security Project (ESP) will analyze basic income, a system in which every citizen receives a monthly stipend which covers their basic needs. Project

Backed by over 100 activists, academics, and experts from Silicon Valley, this project aims to learn as much as possible about the dominant idea in the fight against poverty.ESP will be co-chaired by Natalie Foster from the Institute for the along with Roosevelt Institute Fellow […]

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Preston Munchensonton Re: What I love…

What I love… …is a good rant about the problem with X, without providing an alternative. Lucky for you that El Reg exists, then. How about this. Invest more in GOOD education (and I don’t mean starting kids in school before they have learn’t to eat solids). Speaking of vagaries with no definition, exactly what is good education? Your suggestion is as worthless as the lack of alternatives from the rant that you loathed. The problem isn’t investing, as there’s heaps of money being thrown at education the […]

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When it can often seem like our politicians can never agree on anything, sometimes they can surprise you. Sometimes they come together and actually find common ground to unanimously support an idea.

Such is the case last week when the PEI Legislature agreed to have the province work with the federal government in hopes of setting up a basic income pilot project on the Island.

The motion was put forth by Green Party Leader Peter Bevan-Baker last Tuesday and was supported by all parties. Obviously, current welfare models are not working. Many Islanders are struggling and no matter how hard they […]

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Universal Basic Income In the 70’s they told us we were all going to enjoy a lot more leisure time because all the hard work would get taken care of by machines.

At minimum, I believe that with decreased costs of living, UBI will be one of many tools empowering self-actualization at scale – more people will be able to follow their passions, be more creative, and spend more time on higher-order, personally fulfilling tasks.
And there we are. Same bullsh!t, different day. What do you mean "we", have you got a mouse in your pocket? What do you […]

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In his new Kindle book Mending the Net , author Chis Oestereich describes how a basic income can address some of the “wicked problems” facing humanity.

For Oestereich, the basic income can help society rethink its consumption patterns and possibly upend the “treadmill of subsistence.”

In the book, Oestereich predicts that the economy could be headed toward a recession. In the interview he said that basic income can be a “shock absorber” of economic downturns. Without a basic income, Oestereich said he worries that the next recession will be much worse than the last for many people.One of the most unique […]

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While I’m not one of the reactionary Luddites who claims AI is suddenly not capable of doing anything or is only as capable as looms and tractors ever were, and I’m not going to bother using the same an!capistan arguments against basic income that clearly aren’t swaying anyone (I don’t know why anarchocapitalists and libertarians even bother), I will say that we’re giving basic income too much credit.

Keyword: credit. That’s what I’m leading into. Whenever I keep promoting Vyrdism, I also mention why I don’t trust basic income— the State, which is the agency who will distribute said income, […]

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