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• scottsantens (62)in GEMS • 3 years ago

  Escaping Together: Thoughts about basic income, surviving disasters, and the future we must escape from

  Thoughts about basic income, surviving disasters, and the future we must escape from

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• scottsantens (62)in OCD • 3 years ago

  An Introduction to Unconditional Basic Income For All: Why UBI is necessary now and how to get it done

  Let’s talk about humanity... Human civilization was not ready for COVID-19, nor is it ready for the continuing impacts of climate change, nor the impacts we will increasingly…

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• scottsantens (62)in #basicincome • 6 years ago

  ‘Universal Basic Income Doesn’t Work’ Says New Prime Example of Fake News: Or How to Spot Disinformation in a World of Propaganda

  I've just published a new 6,000+ word feature-length article over on Medium where I tear apart a recent report from the New Economics Foundation piece by piece, revealing it for…

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• scottsantens (62)in #dtube • 6 years ago

  Full Unemployment | The Scott Santens UBI Enterprise

  In this episode I read one of my all-time favorite essays about universal basic income and how our goal as a society should be full unemployment, not full employment. This essay…

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• scottsantens (62)in #basicincome • 6 years ago

  My Forbes Interview About Universal Basic Income

  This interview of mine with Kavi Guppta took place in 2016 and was originally published on September 22, 2016 on Forbes with the title "Basic Income Might Be The Answer To…

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• scottsantens (62)in #basicincome • 7 years ago

  What We Need to Truly Thrive: Democracy and Unconditional Basic Income

  I've just published over on Medium "What We Need to Truly Thrive: Democracy and Unconditional Basic Income" . It's actually the text of the speech I wrote for my keynote at…

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• scottsantens (62)in #basicincome • 7 years ago

  One Thing to Build a More Open World: Unconditional Basic Income (UBI)

  This video was created for The Economist's Open Future contest where everyone has one minute to change the world. This is my minute. The one thing I would change is no…

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• scottsantens (62)in #basicincome • 7 years ago

  Unconditional Basic Income would fix a systemic flaw in markets: they can't tell the difference between a lack of demand and a lack of ability to express demand

  Do you like markets? Well, whether you like them or not, they're pretty effective in most cases. The ability for two people to make an exchange where both feel they leave the…

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• scottsantens (62)in #basicincome • 7 years ago

  The Monsters, Inc. Argument for Unconditional Basic Income: How to convert an economy based on fear to one based on joy

  Every year since 2002 , there is a North American Basic Income Guarantee Congress held in either the US or Canada. On the eve of this year’s NABIG in Hamilton, Ontario…

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• scottsantens (62)in #basicincome • 7 years ago

  The Future of the Labor Movement Rests on the Achievement of Unconditional Basic Income

  The first day of May was May Day / International Workers Day / Labour Day, and beyond recognizing the past victories of the labor movement in achieving milestones like the 8-hour…

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• scottsantens (62)in #basicincome • 7 years ago

  Don't Make People in Need Jump Through Hoops for Food

  A letter-to-the-editor in opposition of imposing stricter work requirements for food stamps. The Trump administration has recently proposed adding what I consider to be…

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• scottsantens (62)in #basicincome • 7 years ago

  The talk I gave at Block2theFuture about Unconditional Basic Income followed by the panel I moderated about the UBI cryptocurrency Manna

  On April 6, 2018 I gave the above talk on stage at Block2theFuture in Oakland. It's a 12-minute introduction to what basic income is , a bit of its history in the United…

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• scottsantens (62)in #basicincome • 7 years ago

  It’s Time for Technology to Serve all Humankind with Unconditional Basic Income

  (The text below is a speech I wrote for a keynote in Sweden in late 2017. The PowerPoint is downloadable , as is a video recording of the speech itself.)…

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• scottsantens (62)in #basicincome • 7 years ago

  True Freedom Comes With Unconditional Basic Income

  “I can’t not do this, because I need the money…” — The thought underlying all exploitation which can be eliminated with one BIG idea I attended a national economic…

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• scottsantens (62)in #basicincome • 7 years ago

  Here's what I said about automated vehicles and basic income at the House of Commons of Canada

  Below is the audio and text of the short speech I delivered to the Standing Committee on Transport, Infrastructure and Communities at the Canadian House of Commons on March 28…

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• scottsantens (62)in #basicincome • 7 years ago

  Universal Basic Income Cryptocurrencies Like Manna are Pioneering the Way Towards Decentralized Targeting

  I've provided an introduction to the cryptocurrency "Manna" in a previous blog entry , so if you've never heard of it, please start by reading that first, before coming back…

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• scottsantens (62)in #basicincome • 7 years ago

  Why inequality is growing so extreme and how Alaska points the way to the solution

  Consider the following two headlines and the fact they describe events that are occurring simultaneously: “ Grains piled on runways, parking lots, fields amid global glut ” and…

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• scottsantens (62)in #basicincome • 7 years ago

  In the 21st Century, All Roads Appear to Be Leading to Unconditional Basic Income (UBI)

  The idea of unconditionally providing all citizens an income floor sufficient for existence —  a basic income  — looks to be at the intersection of an unstoppable congruence of…

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• scottsantens (62)in #basicincome • 7 years ago

  My sit-down conversation with Chris Hughes, co-founder of Facebook and author of the new book "Fair Shot"

  On February 19th, I flew to New York to sit down and talk in person with co-founder of Facebook and co-chair of the Economic Security Project , Chris Hughes , as part of…

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• scottsantens (62)in #basicincome • 7 years ago

  Unconditional Basic Income as the Social Vaccine of the 21st Century

  Can the savings of unconditional basic income (UBI) exceed its cost? “An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.” — Benjamin Franklin For those not familiar with…

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