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Universal Basic Income Is Easier Than It Looks Calls for a Universal Basic Income (UBI) have been increasing, most recently as part of the “Green New Deal” introduced by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., and supported in the last month by at least 40 members of Congress. A UBI is a monthly payment to all adults …
Current UBI experiments: An update for July 2018 Karl Widerquist is an Associate Professor of political philosophy at SFS-Qatar, Georgetown University, specializing in distributive justice—the ethics of who has what. Much of his work involves Universal Basic Income (UBI). He is a co-founder of the U.S. Basic Income Guarantee Network (USBIG). Widerquist holds two doctorates—one …
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How to Fund a Universal Basic Income Without Increasing Taxes or Inflation Studies have shown that it would actually be cheaper to distribute funds to the entire population than to run the welfare services governments engage in now.
A universal basic income would certainly be a step in the right direction … it would free immense creativity that today is absorbed in doing jobs that, when you really look at it, make little sense. Universal basic income wouldn’t make people lazy–it would change the nature of work
Finland’s hugely exciting experiment in basic income, explained The headlines are shocking: “Finland plans to pay everyone in the country $876 a month”; “Finland plans to give every citizen a basic income of 800 euros a month”; “Finland plans to give every citizen 800 euros a month and scrap benefits.” The reality is a little …
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Chris Eliasmith on Reverse Engineering the Brain, Dangerous AI, and Universal Basic Income My interview with Chris Eliasmith, Director of the Centre for Theoretical Neuroscience and head of the Computational Neuroscience Research Group (CNRG) at the University of Waterloo. He is the creator of one of the world’s most realistic brain simulations (SPAUN), winner of the …
Silicon Valley talks a good game on ‘basic income’, but its words are empty The radical idea of handing cash to citizens regardless of whether they work has taken root in Europe. Now America’s tech elite is backing the concept – but why? Basic income, therefore, is often seen as the Trojan horse that would …
