Scott SantensDid Sam Altman’s Basic Income Experiment Succeed or Fail?An article to better inform the discussion of the results of the OpenResearch unconditional basic income pilot experimentAug 29Aug 29
Scott SantensThe Billionaire-Fueled Lobbying Group Behind the State Bills to Ban Basic Income ExperimentsThe Foundation for Government Accountability — a Florida-based lobbying group backed by the richest 1% — is working to get basic income…Feb 282Feb 282
Scott SantensIntroducing the Income To Support All FoundationI’m now the Founder and President of the Income To Support All Foundation, a new non-profit whose purpose is to accelerate UBI by doing itAug 11, 20232Aug 11, 20232
Scott SantensThe Big Red Button Argument for Unconditional Basic Income (UBI)If we’re going to make a button that can cause humanity’s extinction if pressed and UBI can improve our odds of not pressing it, then do…Jul 12, 20237Jul 12, 20237
Scott SantensA.I. Will Not Displace Everyone, Everywhere, All at Once.There is no simple way of discussing the economic impact of artificial intelligence. As someone who has been warning about the impacts of…Apr 27, 20232Apr 27, 20232
Scott SantensChatGPT Has Already Decreased My Income Security, and Likely Yours TooNote: You can also listen to this post thanks to an AI I trained with my voiceFeb 21, 20233Feb 21, 20233
Scott SantensHow Money is Born out of Public Spending and Dies by TaxesIf there’s one thing most people don’t seem to understand about how money works that I think would really help governments work better in…Feb 3, 20233Feb 3, 20233
Scott SantensThe Fair Tax Would Implement a Universal Basic IncomeAnyone who supports the FairTax and its monthly ‘prebate’ also supports UBI even if they swear otherwiseJan 25, 20232Jan 25, 20232
Scott SantensThe Spaceballs Argument for Unconditional Basic Income (UBI)There is an argument frequently made against the concept of unconditional basic income (UBI) that essentially goes like this…Jan 11, 20237Jan 11, 20237
Scott SantensSubscribe to the new scottsantens.comI wasn’t ever going to write on Medium again, but I have 25,000 followers here who might be interested in this short update…Feb 23, 20222Feb 23, 20222