On unlinking work from sustenance

I think we need it to be possible to get rich from working, but we need to make it impossible to get desperate from not working.

Hat tip to Dan Olner who points to a cogent argument for what I will persist in calling social credit or creditisme…

Hi Scott,

What a great idea to publish a status report. I am following your work with the goal of writing some articles and getting the topic on the agenda in all the ways I can.

UBI is the future and the AlphaGo article convinced me even more, because of the jobs that computers will make obsolete in…

I wanted to quote the whole things for all my followers and occasional readers who haven’t followed me yet due to the tags they follow. Thanks to Matt Zwolinsky and the Cato Institute via Cato Unbound we have the following quote below!

From the perspective of anyone concerned with limiting government and encouraging…

America has Universal Basic Income attempts already via the prebate section of the FairTax.

Gary Johnson supports the idea as the only Presidential candidate to do so!

I think this going to be one of the more painful aspects of modernity especially as we work towards things like a UBI and the fear the powerful are going to exploit the most as it happens.

It’s going to involve people asking themselves a very painful question: who are you outside of work? Is there anything left inside?

Income Support in Social Democratic America

Is it time for a universal basic income? How do we balance universal and means-tested income supports?

I’m not sure how much you’ve read on the topic of UBI, but there are three key assumptions in your argument, which I previously referenced, that make your position a house of cards for post-workists like myself:

1. Work is, and has always been by its very nature, a “burden”. Estranged labour is just a Marxist fallacy.

Well Rick, I have to say, there’s a lot of dangerous hyperbole floating around in your response. Kudos for propping up the middle-class WASP perspective.

“We should do away with the absolutely specious notion that everybody has to earn a living. It is a fact today that one in ten thousand of us can make a technological…