by Craig Axford | Jul 7, 2014 | Research
"Increasingly calls for drastic measures like a guaranteed income, wealth redistribution and other social engineering measures are being called for."
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According to this blog post more and more people are arguing that what really matters is a capacity for social innovation. Due to a combination of automation and wealth concentration, increasing calls for new approaches such as a basic income guarantee are becoming commonplace.
33rd Square, “Is This The End of Careers As We Know Them?”, June 25, 2014
by Craig Axford | Jul 6, 2014 | Research
Gaura Rader
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Gaura Rader, “The Democracy Argument for Basic Income”, The Socratic Diablogs, June 25, 2014.
Gaura Rader, “Democracy and Basic Income Part II”, The Socratic Diablogs, June 26, 2014
by Craig Axford | Jul 5, 2014 | Research
Though technology favors extreme jobs, BIG offers a liberating safety net for everyone.
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Technology is increasingly replacing more jobs than it is creating. This trend favors extreme jobs that a few superstars get paid extremely well to do, leaving everyone else either unemployed or underemployed. Jon Evans concludes that a basic income guarantee is the only kind of strong social safety net that can catch everyone and enable people to do the kind of fulfilling things they want to at the same time.
Jon Evans, “Welcome to Extremistan! Please Check Your Career At The Door”, Tech Crunch, June 21, 2014
by Craig Axford | Jul 5, 2014 | Research
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Jessica Flanigan challenges some fundamental objections to a basic income guarantee found within Brink Lindsey’s book Human Capitalism. Brink Lindsey responds in a second post that followed on June 27, 2014. Links to both the initial challenge and the followup response are provided below.
Jessica Flanigan, “Is Living on the Dole Bad For You?”, Bleeding Heart Libertarians, June 19, 2014
Response: Brink Lindsey, “Why Living on the Dole Is Bad for You”, Bleeding Heart Libertarians, June 27, 2014
by Karl Widerquist | Jul 3, 2014 | Research
Mathias Marchal, “Le revenu minimum garanti: «une idée soutenue à droite comme à gauche» [The guaranteed minimum income: ‘an idea sustained on left and right’]” Métro, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, 26 June 2014.
Jonathan Brun - Yves Provencher, Métro
by Craig Axford | Jul 3, 2014 | Research
Image: CTV News
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The Basic Income Earth Network’s 15th annual conference in Montreal raises the profile of the basic income guarantee in Canada. A CTV News report on discussions at the BIEN conference points out that press coverage for BIG has been steadily increasing across North America recently. In addition, there has been recent positive movement on the issue within two of Canada’s opposition parties.
Benjamin Shingler, “Are Canadians worth $20k a year, guaranteed?”, CTV News, June 29, 2014
