NEW LINK: Basic Income website
Thorne, S., Thorne, N., and Lotz, S., 2014. www.basic-income.net [website]
Gaura Rader, “Naomi Klein’s This Changes Everything and Some Tangentially Related Thoughts on Basic Income”
Gaura Rader, “Naomi Klei
VIDEO: David DeGraw and Dennis Trainor, Jr., “We Would Have Revolution Overnight If People Understood This One Thing”
In this video, David DeGraw explains to Dennis Trainor how government failure to institute a basic income will result in a violent revolution.
See the video here:
David DeGraw and Dennis Trainor, Jr., “We Would Have Revol
ution Overnight If People Understood This One Thing”, Acronym TV, 7th October 2014
Stanislas Jourdan, “Guy Standing: The Precariat is growing angry”
In this interview with Stanislas Jourdan, Guy Standing discusses how the basic income would remedy some of the insecurities experienced by the ‘precariat’.
The full article is available here:
Stanislas Jourdan, “Guy Standin
g: “The Precariat is growing angry”, Boiling Frogs, 8th November 2012
David DeGraw, “The Coming Revolution: Evolutionary Leap or Descent Into Chaos and Violence?”
In this excerpt from David DeGraw’s book, The Economics of Revolution, he suggests that the money the US government used to stimulate the economy through quantitative easing constituted a hand-out to the rich, and would have been better directed elsewhere, namely towards the provision of a basic income. He writes that, ‘If they truly wanted to stimulate the economy, they could have given the $4 trillion to every non-millionaire household, which would have been $40,000 per household, or they could have given 114,285,714 people $35,000 each. If we clawback QE from the ultra-rich, we can eliminate poverty and guarantee a Living Income to every person over the age of 18.
The full article is available here:
David DeGraw, “The Coming Revolution: Evolutionary Leap or Descent Into Chaos and Violence?”, The Economics of Revolution, 7th October 2014
