Steem Basic Income
Steem Basic Income is a social experiment to bring a basic income to as many Steemians as possible. Members join by sponsoring others into the program. Steem Basic Income is delivered through providing regular upvotes to member content.
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One of our objectives when we started this experiment was to bring resources to our membership that will help them to become more informed about the ideas surrounding Universal Basic Income. We have been quite busy with membership tracking, vote pattern analysis, and fine-tuning the program. As a result, we have been very limited in the resources we have shared.
A History of Basic Income
Today we would like to share with you a full-length article from Reason magazine, "The Indestructible Idea of the Basic Income." http://reason.com/archives/2017/06/03/the-indestructible-idea-of-the
We found this to be a very interesting read, showing a history of thinkers and ideologues that have talked about Basic Income (or substantially similar ideas), from Tom Paine to Henry James, from Timothy Leary to Scott Santens, actually one of our members.
Read it, think about it, let us know your thoughts!
New feature - delegation bonus shares
We released this feature a couple of days ago, but we want to repeat the announcement for anybody that missed it. Existing members can receive bonus shares by delegation. For every 25 SP delegated to 
Hive account@steembasicincome, members will receive 1 bonus share. Now member A can get similar bonus shares to member B by delegation instead of upvoting, to the benefit of everyone involved! Currently each share receives a weekly voting weight of 8.70%
Any Steemian that is already enrolled in Hive account@steembasicincome can delegate as much as they would like, to receive bonus shares. We did some calculations on this offer when we were asked about it, and the approximate APR for this delegation is 27%. That's a 27% annual return to boost everybody's basic income. I don't think it gets much better than that!
Here are some Handy Delegation links:
Current Membership
We are up to 790 shares, with 366 members. There are 32 paused members, 69 inactive members, and 130 bonus shares from upvoting Hive account@steembasicincome. If you believe your share count to be incorrect, please let us know and we will happily check it again.
Single Share Members
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Enrollment
Sounds intriguing... How do I sign up?
Send 1 STEEM to Hive account@steembasicincome. Include the name of a Steemian to sponsor in the comments. You and the person you sponsor will each receive 1 share in the program. While SBD is still worth more than STEEM, you can also send 1 SBD and the extra value will be treated as a donation.
Questions?
We broke down the mechanics for how the program works in the extended introduction. If you have any other questions, ask away in the comments section!
