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‘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,...

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 emplo...

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 Th...

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

http://i229.photobucket.com/albums/ee294/sss1977/fear-is-the-mind-killersmall.jpg I've just published over on Medium "What We Need to Truly Thrive: Democracy an...

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 chang...

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 ...

Introducing the Manna Marketplace (Merchant of Manna)

Our community is really starting to make things happen. Yesterday, we reported that we topped 105,000 verified users for this week's distribution. That number n...

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, O...

Universal Basic Income For All

Listen to the Podcast here What is Universal Basic Income? If you have never heard of Universal Basic Income (UBI), you have come to the right place to find out...

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 mileston...

A Successful First Day: We Still Need Your Help

Yesterday we started a push to get Manna listed on the Cryptofolio app. For the first day, we had enormous success. Thank you to all who helped. We were in thir...

We need your help to get listed on Cryptofolio

Cryptofolio is an onine application that allows one to track cryptocurrency holdings. This one is a bit different than other applications like it in that they d...

Manna Co-Founder to speak at NABIG Congress in Ontario

We are pleased to announce that one of the Co-Founders of Manna, Eric Stetson, was added to the speaking roster at NABIG in Hamilton, Ontario later this month. ...

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 consid...

An Unconditional Basic Income For Everyone

After the industrial revolution, human society managed to reach enormous sums in the productions of various products. This is very due to the introduction of va...

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 th...

Drip, Drip, Drip! Leaky Sink? No, It's Lifetime Income - Steem Basic Income Review

How does an upvote on each and every post, each and every day for your lifetime on Steemit sound to you? No worrying about if others will like what you produce ...

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...

We Are Manna-The First Global Basic Income Cryptocurrency

This is our introduction post. We are happy to be a part of the STEEM community. Mannacurrency is a cryptocurrency that was created to be given to anyone as a b...

Review of swiftdemand - blockchain based Universal Basic Income

swiftdemand is a platform that provides swift as universal basic income. At the moment swifts are stored centralized on the webpage and cannot be transferred. I...