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scottsantens (62)in hive-111825 • 4 years ago
Basic Income as Liquid Infrastructure: The Bruce Lee Argument for UBI
"Be formless, shapeless, like water. You put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle, it becomes the bottle. You put water into a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now water…
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scottsantens (62)in hive-111825 • 4 years ago
2020 Revealed That Unconditional Basic Income Cannot Wait Any Longer
Everything seemed to change in 2020, and yet in very important ways, what really needed to didn’t, which is what must change. It’s time to finally live up to our founding ideals as a nation with a…
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scottsantens (62)in hive-111825 • 4 years ago
An Engineering Argument for Universal Basic Income
(Optional Audio: click here to listen to my narration of this article if you prefer listening to reading ) Before studying engineering, if someone asked me what 1+1 is, I would have said…
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scottsantens (62)in basicincome • 5 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 what it is - pure…
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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 was written by John…
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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 Society's Productivity…
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scottsantens (62)in basicincome • 6 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 DemCon 2018 in…
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scottsantens (62)in basicincome • 6 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 power to say NO...…
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scottsantens (62)in basicincome • 6 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 exchange better off…
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mannacurrency (62)in basicincome • 7 years ago
Introducing the Manna Marketplace (Merchant of Manna)
Our community is really starting to make things happen. Yesterday, we reported that we topped 105,000 verified users for this week's distribution. That number now has jumped another 3,500 in less…
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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 , I’d like to share…
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sustainablelivin (53)in cryptocurrency • 7 years ago
Universal Basic Income For All
Listen to the Podcast here What is Universal Basic Income? If you have never heard of Universal Basic Income (UBI), you have come to the right place to find out. In this podcast, taskmaster4450…
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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 day and the 40-hour…
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mannacurrency (62)in basicincome • 7 years ago
A Successful First Day: We Still Need Your Help
Yesterday we started a push to get Manna listed on the Cryptofolio app. For the first day, we had enormous success. Thank you to all who helped. We were in third place with 194 votes. This…
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mannacurrency (62)in basicincome • 7 years ago
We need your help to get listed on Cryptofolio
Cryptofolio is an onine application that allows one to track cryptocurrency holdings. This one is a bit different than other applications like it in that they do not list all the tokens from…
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mannacurrency (62)in manna • 7 years ago
Manna Co-Founder to speak at NABIG Congress in Ontario
We are pleased to announce that one of the Co-Founders of Manna, Eric Stetson, was added to the speaking roster at NABIG in Hamilton, Ontario later this month. The Congress is a gathering to focus…
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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 some pretty…
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paulomurilo (48)in basicincome • 7 years ago
An Unconditional Basic Income For Everyone
After the industrial revolution, human society managed to reach enormous sums in the productions of various products. This is very due to the introduction of various types of machines / machinery in…
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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 States, and a summary…
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thedarkhorse (67)in steembasicincome • 7 years ago
Drip, Drip, Drip! Leaky Sink? No, It's Lifetime Income - Steem Basic Income Review
How does an upvote on each and every post, each and every day for your lifetime on Steemit sound to you? No worrying about if others will like what you produce or if they will even see it, just a…
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