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Scott Santens
@scottsantens Mar 24, 2022, 8:23 PM UTC

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

I wrote the following in a hotel as a hurricane evacuee last year. I published it originally on my blog weeks later, and I now publish it here... At some point in all of our lives, we all try to esca…

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Scott Santens
@scottsantens Feb 12, 2022, 7:20 PM UTC

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…

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Scott Santens
@scottsantens Jun 4, 2019, 1:17 AM UTC

‘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 pro…

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Scott Santens
@scottsantens Apr 24, 2019, 4:35 PM UTC

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 B…

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Scott Santens
@scottsantens Apr 22, 2019, 6:23 PM UTC

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 Cris…

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Scott Santens
@scottsantens Aug 6, 2018, 11:14 PM UTC

What We Need to Truly Thrive: Democracy and Unconditional Basic Income

http://i229.photobucket.com/albums/ee294/sss1977/fear-is-the-mind-killer_small.jpg I've just published over on Medium "What We Need to Truly Thrive: Democracy and Unconditional Basic Income". It's ac…

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Scott Santens
@scottsantens Jul 30, 2018, 9:17 PM UTC

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 n…

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Scott Santens
@scottsantens Jul 13, 2018, 4:21 PM UTC

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…

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Scott Santens
@scottsantens May 18, 2018, 5:04 PM UTC

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 f…

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Scott Santens
@scottsantens May 14, 2018, 8:10 PM UTC

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…

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