#universal-basic-income

Why We Don’t Need to Tax the Rich

It ain’t what you don’t know that gets you into trouble. It’s what you know for sure that just ain’t so.

Up to 6 million won per year to residents, ‘Sunlight Pension’ for solar power in Sinan-gun, Korea

Rural areas worldwide are facing severe demographic crises characterized by rapid population decline and aging. The exodus of populations…

Is AI Coming for Our Jobs: Freedom & Sovereignty through Data Based Income (DBI)

Doomsday predictions of massive job losses from the rapid technology advances of artificial intelligence (AI) have abounded from…

AI dystopia is absurd. Before panicking, answer these questions.

All of these AI-doom theses about AI dominating humanity consistently fail to answer two questions:

Making Sense of the Economy through the Lens of MMT

The point is, not every deficit serves the broader public good. Deficits can be used for good or evil. They can enrich a small segment of…

Is Universal Basic Income a Communist Policy?

Does the Chinese government offer its citizens something close to universal basic income?

The BHB Project: Breaking Through to a New Way of Life

The tribal life doesn’t turn people into saints; it enables ordinary people to make a living together with a minimum of stress year after…

We Already Tested Life After Work. We Just Called It Being Rich.

Post-AGI abundance sounds futuristic. But the closest preview has always existed: people with enough money and time to stop working for…

From Learning SEO in Silence to Becoming an SEO Assistant Manager

There’s something strange about growth.

AI Job Displacement

The Post-Labor Society Will Not Survive on Money Alone

Why the Future of Universal Basic Income May Depend on Personalized Social Participation Rather Than Passive Distribution

UBI at 45: The Half‑Life Reset

Universal Basic Income — a restoration of the human birthright to create

Universal High Income - The Anesthetic

I replied to Elon’s post about Universal High Income. The argument was simple: free checks don’t solve meaning, they just reduce friction…

AGI’s Shocking Economic Risks

Rutger Bregman — Why the Economy Grows the Wrong Thing

What changes when we stop treating money as the goal and start treating human life as the goal

ABCity Is Now on Amazon

A quick update for those who have been following this work.

AI and the Common Good: Will AI Save Us — or Replace Us?

Philip Kotler

Universal Basic Income Is Not Coming. What Now?

Societal destitution, manifesting first and most visibly as mass homelessness

Scarcity After Abundance

Automation, Land, and the Risk of a Neo-Feudal Economy

The UBI Illusion: A Capitalist’s Communist Idea Designed to Keep You Quiet!

(Views and opinions expressed in my Medium posts, profile, and articles are solely my own and do not reflect the views or opinions of my…

Elon, Moonshot Mates, All In Podcast Besties, can you help us navigate this future better?

Bad Advice from the Self Actualized

GoodDollar Expands to XDC with a New Reserve Backing UBI

Today marks an important step in the evolution of the GoodDollar protocol.

When Abundance Becomes Undertow

A critical reflection on Solve Everything, UBI, UHI, and the privatization of the social contract

Qual Data v Payroll Tax

Thanks to that pinned news index project I started, I feel I have successfully lowered my prioritization of the news, amidst another…

Why AGI Makes UBI Necessary

The Case for Sharing Wealth in an Automated Future

AGI Threatens Jobs

National Youth Service: Why is there renewed interest, and what can we learn from the youth…

More discussions (pro and con) about national service youth programs have been popping up recently in the US, Canada, and the UK.

What a Part Consumer Ownership Economy (PCOE) could look like. FULL PAPER

Pull Yourself Up By Your Bot Straps

(Excerpt adapted from Economic Offramp: Chapter 11)

A Critical Response to Rutger Bregman’s Interview on Novara Media

Rutger Bregman’s recent interview with Aaron Bastani on Novara Media, drawing on his book Moral Ambition, reflects an impassioned and…

The Fifth Modernity: Redefining Universal Basic Income Through Maya

Aaron K. Astley

Post-Work Economies: The New World and the New Definition of Labor

Technology keeps on improving and metamorphosing at equal rates and so is the definition and conception of work. The concept of ‘After-work…

Radical Solutions for Global Inequity: The Role of Effective Governance and Fair Taxation

In an era defined by conspicuous consumption and unfathomable wealth gaps, the psychological malaise of inequity looms large over our…

Webb Telescope Zooms in on the Universe’s Farthest Galaxy Ever Detected!

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Embracing AI in Art

Rethinking Economic Systems and Artists’ Roles in a Changing World

Universal Basic Income: 3 Issues to be Addressed Before Implementation is Feasible

UBI could change the world. So why haven’t we implemented it yet?

Making sense of recent drama in Proof of Humanity

In light of recent drama where a significant number of people (including UBI founder) voted for an HIP having the effect of destroying the…

Rennaisance or Revolution?

I tell Positive stories from the Future … like the one John Lennon may have imagined. We do a podcast, an Audio Drama.

Universal Basic Income (Evrensel Temel Gelir) Nedir?

Evrensel temel gelir (UBI) nedir? UBI neden gereklidir? Devletleri iflasa sürükler mi? UBI ile yeni vergi türleri doğabilir mi?

Uh, OK. Do you have a “serious proposal” to address the problem?

What you’re advocating is that we become a bunch of William Gibson characters, scavenging gomi from…

As I said originally, I’ll see the civilization burn before that.

You’re familiar with runzheimer COL calculations then, yes?

The fundamental problem with UBI isn’t the amount, it’s the very fact of its existence as a serious…

At that point that last pretense of equality and labor bargaining power are gone, leaving us at the mercy of a feudal class. They own the…

Let The Winds of Change Topple Capitalism: The Oak and The Reed

Last week I suggested we get rid of capitalism (The Sooner We Start Mourning Capitalism, The Sooner We Can Move On: The Young Widow). Many…