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Universal Basic Income

Jed in The Spouter Magazine

Feb 3, 2020

The “Daily” Niche: It’s time for Yang to Endorse Bernie

Jed in The Spouter Magazine

Oct 18, 2017

Nationalizing Banks For Basic Income

When I wrote my earlier essay on white supremacy and the Universal Basic Income in America, I screwed up the section about how to fund a UBI by a power of 100: somehow it got in my head that a trillion was a hundred billion, not a thousand billion. This made it…

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Jul 22, 2017

What Are We Worth? Part 6: Strategy. Can We Make It Happen?

“Capitalism, through its process of production, produces an awesome schizophrenic accumulation of energy or charge, against which it brings all…

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Jul 15, 2017

What Are We Worth? Part 5: Counter-counterarguments

“The current, financialized form of capitalism is systematically consuming our capacities to sustain social bonds, like a tiger that eats its own tail.”…

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Jun 14, 2017

What Are We Worth? Part 4: Welfare and White Supremacy in American History

“America became white — the people who, as they claim, ‘settled’ the country became white — because of the necessity of denying…

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Jun 9, 2017

What are We Worth? Part 3: Why not? Because racism.

“In a racist society, it is inevitable that policies to assist the poor will be designed to shore up racial hierarchy. Thus, where the labor system is…

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Jun 6, 2017

What Are We Worth? Part 2: Life for All

“The deliberate creation of lack as a function of market economy is the art of a dominant class. This involves deliberately organizing wants and deeds amid an…

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Jun 5, 2017

What Are We Worth? Part 1: Unconditional Basic Income and White Supremacy

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The dichotomy between class and race runs deep on the American left. Are you anticapitalist or antiracist? Which is the greater suffering, being poor or being…