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Scott Santens
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Writer and basic income advocate | Moderator of r/basicincome | Public speaker | Patreon.com/scottsantens | Twitter.com/scottsantens | Facebook.com/scottsantens
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scottsantens
GEMS
2022-03-24 20:23
Escaping Together: Thoughts about basic income, surviving disasters, and the future we must escape from
Thoughts about basic income, surviving disasters, and the future we must escape from
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scottsantens
OCD
2022-02-12 19:20
An Introduction to Unconditional Basic Income For All: Why UBI is necessary now and how to get it done
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
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scottsantens
basicincome
2019-06-04 01:17
‘Universal Basic Income Doesn’t Work’ Says New Prime Example of Fake News: Or How to Spot Disinformation in a World of Propaganda
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
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scottsantens
dtube
2019-04-24 16:35
Full Unemployment | The Scott Santens UBI Enterprise
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
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scottsantens
basicincome
2019-04-22 18:23
My Forbes Interview About Universal Basic Income
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
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scottsantens
basicincome
2018-08-06 23:14
What We Need to Truly Thrive: Democracy and Unconditional Basic Income
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.
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scottsantens
basicincome
2018-07-30 21:17
One Thing to Build a More Open World: Unconditional Basic Income (UBI)
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
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scottsantens
basicincome
2018-07-13 16:21
Unconditional Basic Income would fix a systemic flaw in markets: they can't tell the difference between a lack of demand and a lack of ability to express demand
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
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scottsantens
basicincome
2018-05-18 17:04
The Monsters, Inc. Argument for Unconditional Basic Income: How to convert an economy based on fear to one based on joy
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
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scottsantens
basicincome
2018-05-14 20:10
The Future of the Labor Movement Rests on the Achievement of Unconditional Basic Income
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,
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scottsantens
basicincome
2018-05-01 16:03
Don't Make People in Need Jump Through Hoops for Food
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
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scottsantens
basicincome
2018-04-26 22:51
The talk I gave at Block2theFuture about Unconditional Basic Income followed by the panel I moderated about the UBI cryptocurrency Manna
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
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scottsantens
basicincome
2018-04-18 21:16
It’s Time for Technology to Serve all Humankind with Unconditional Basic Income
(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,
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scottsantens
basicincome
2018-04-09 22:48
True Freedom Comes With Unconditional Basic Income
“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,
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scottsantens
basicincome
2018-03-30 17:55
Here's what I said about automated vehicles and basic income at the House of Commons of Canada
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
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scottsantens
basicincome
2018-03-20 19:54
Universal Basic Income Cryptocurrencies Like Manna are Pioneering the Way Towards Decentralized Targeting
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.
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scottsantens
basicincome
2018-03-13 22:09
Why inequality is growing so extreme and how Alaska points the way to the solution
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
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scottsantens
basicincome
2018-03-05 22:53
In the 21st Century, All Roads Appear to Be Leading to Unconditional Basic Income (UBI)
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
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scottsantens
basicincome
2018-02-28 00:59
My sit-down conversation with Chris Hughes, co-founder of Facebook and author of the new book "Fair Shot"
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
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scottsantens
basicincome
2018-02-17 01:06
Unconditional Basic Income as the Social Vaccine of the 21st Century
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
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