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Martin Luther King Jr. Warned Us of the Dangers of Job Automation (10 Quotes)
Martin Luther King Jr. Warned Us of the Dangers of Job Automation (10 Quotes)
Martin Luther King Jr. predicted in his last book,
Harper Lee: Success, Creativity and Basic Income
Harper Lee: Success, Creativity and Basic Income
Harper Lee is the writer extraordinaire who wrote the book, To Kill a Mockingbird, which was also made into an excellent movie. If you didn…
Would people work if they didn’t have to?
Would people work if they didn’t have to?
Universal Basic Income (UBI). The revolutionary idea to solve poverty and stimulate the economy by giving everybody free money is becoming…
What if you got $1,000 a month, just for being alive? I decided to find out.
What if you got $1,000 a month, just for being alive? I decided to find out.
Human civilization is a skyscraper we’ve been building together for 1000s of years and UBI is the foundation we neglected to build under it…
Why Basic Income? (9 Reasons)
Why Basic Income? (9 Reasons)
I traveled to the first Basic Income Create-a-thon in San Francisco, I was given 9 Reasons why we need Basic Income TODAY.
UBI is a moral choice, before anything else.
UBI is a moral choice, before anything else.
Why do I so vigorously advocate for UBI?
Universal Basic Income, Social Policy and the Trump Term
Universal Basic Income, Social Policy and the Trump Term
What Are We Looking At? An Outsider’s Inside-Observation.
Basic Income as Seed Funding for Humanity
Basic Income as Seed Funding for Humanity
Universal Basic Income is the idea that all citizens should have a cash payment to guarantee a minimum of economic security. The idea of a…
Basic Income and the New Universalism
Basic Income and the New Universalism
Universal basic income is firstly universal, secondly about income and only thirdly basic.
Why basic income would usher in an unprecedented age of freedom
Why basic income would usher in an unprecedented age of freedom
In our current system of wage slavery, most of us are never truly free. We start every single day with a freedom deficit because we have to…
Why the Left’s Next Best Step Is a Basic Income
Why the Left’s Next Best Step Is a Basic Income
Trump’s victory has left many progressives asking the same question: what do we do now?
I was Handcuffed for Displaying MLK Quotes at MLK Memorial for MLK Day.
I was Handcuffed for Displaying MLK Quotes at MLK Memorial for MLK Day.
Martin Luther King Jr. is remembered as a heroic leader for racial justice. But MLK was an outspoken proponent for economic justice too. To…
Martin Luther King Jr. on the record for a Guaranteed Income
Martin Luther King Jr. on the record for a Guaranteed Income
The idea of Universal Basic Income as a solution to job automation technology became mainstream in 2016. But the concept of a guaranteed…
How Donald Trump Can Make America Great Again with a Citizen’s Dividend
How Donald Trump Can Make America Great Again with a Citizen’s Dividend
All American citizens have a very real stake in the future prosperity of our country. And so if Donald Trump is going to run America like a…
Jill Stein’s senior advisor is “a big fan” of Universal Basic Income
Jill Stein’s senior advisor is “a big fan” of Universal Basic Income
I had a special opportunity to interview the amazing Kevin Zeese, senior advisor to Jill Stein in her recent 2016 campaign. I’d bumped into…
A New, Non-Paternalistic Progressivism: Freedom from want, ignorance and illness
A New, Non-Paternalistic Progressivism: Freedom from want, ignorance and illness
The left wing in America is facing a three-fold economic crisis: a crisis of competency, a crisis of perception and a crisis of automation…
Universal Basic Income will Accelerate Innovation by Reducing Our Fear of Failure
Universal Basic Income will Accelerate Innovation by Reducing Our Fear of Failure
An unconditional basic income would do more to accelerate entrepreneurship and create a stronger economy than any other policy on the table
