Thoughts about basic income, surviving disasters, and the future we must escape from

Let’s talk about humanity... Human civilization was not ready for COVID-19, nor is it ready for the continuing impacts of climate change, nor the impacts we will increasingly feel as we automate more and

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 propaganda

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 Bentley

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

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 Ireland.

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... No. I will not

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 than prior

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 with you my favorite

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 week,

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 counterproductive new

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 of the evidence

(The text below is a speech I wrote for a keynote in Sweden in late 2017. The PowerPoint is downloadable, as is a video recording of the speech itself.) Imagine a year where what we’ve long taken for granted,

“I can’t not do this, because I need the money…” — The thought underlying all exploitation which can be eliminated with one BIG idea I attended a national economic conference back in New York in 2015,

Below is the audio and text of the short speech I delivered to the Standing Committee on Transport, Infrastructure and Communities at the Canadian House of Commons on March 28, 2018 as an expert called

I've provided an introduction to the cryptocurrency "Manna" in a previous blog entry, so if you've never heard of it, please start by reading that first, before coming back here to dive deeper.

Consider the following two headlines and the fact they describe events that are occurring simultaneously: “Grains piled on runways, parking lots, fields amid global glut” and “Famine looms in four countries

The idea of unconditionally providing all citizens an income floor sufficient for existence — a basic income — looks to be at the intersection of an unstoppable congruence of events involving accelerating

On February 19th, I flew to New York to sit down and talk in person with co-founder of Facebook and co-chair of the Economic Security Project, Chris Hughes, as part of the launch day of his new book, Fair

Can the savings of unconditional basic income (UBI) exceed its cost? “An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.” — Benjamin Franklin For those not familiar with this old idiom, it means it’s less