BIEN | Opinion
Opinion Posts
Here you will find articles expressing opinions about current issues in the Basic Income debate. Opinions expressed are not necessarily the opinions of BIEN.
President Obama Receives BIEN Letter Through Senator Suplicy (from 2011)
This essay was originally published on Basic Income News in May 2011. In March 2011, Brazilian Senator (and tireless campaigner for BIG), Eduardo Suplicy told me and other members of the USBIG and BIEN Committees that he would soon be meeting with President...
Interview: UBI and ‘Job Culture’ (Part Two)
Kate McFarland interviews D. JoAnne Swanson of The Anticareerist, discussing how Universal Basic Income may help address compulsory wage labor.
Interview: UBI and ‘Job Culture’ (Part One)
Kate McFarland interviews D. JoAnne Swanson of The Anticareerist, discussing how Universal Basic Income may help address compulsory wage labor.
IS BIG WORTH TALKING ABOUT IN THE UNITED STATES TODAY? (from 2010)
This essay was originally published in the USBIG NewsFlash in October 2010. The political climate in the United States has gotten increasingly unfriendly toward the Basic Income Guarantee (BIG). Since 1990s, Democrats and Republicans have agreed that any politically...
Interview: Applying basic income in an Asian context
The Basic Income Asia Pacific 2018 conference held in Taipei this March featured a host of speakers from around the world, including Davala. Davala spoke about his research and the applicability of basic income to Asia.
MONGOLIA: Thousands of protesters demand Alaska-style dividend (from 2010)
This essay was originally published in the USBIG NewsFlash in April 2010. The Associated Press has been reporting that more than 5,000 and perhaps as many as 10,000 Mongolians have been protesting for a resource dividend. Mongolia is a poor nation,...
Basic Income and the ecologic transition
We should transform the economy and prioritize the impacts over society and nature. This is the ecologic transition.
Basic Income can change humanity for the better
You will probably say that the right to life is already the most natural right of the human being, guaranteed, in black on white, indisputable, written on the paper of the constitutions and conventions of the world. But is this really the way it is?
TEN YEARS OF THE U.S. BASIC INCOME GUARANTEE NETWORK (from 2010)
This essay was originally published in the USBIG NewsFlash in February 2010. This issue, Volume 11, Number 55, marks the tenth anniversary of the USBIG Newsletter. The USBIG Network began over breakfast at the Kiev dinner in New York City in December 1999. Five...
SMALL VICTORIES (from 2009)
This essay was originally published in the USBIG NewsFlash in November 2009. The political barriers to the current situation in the United States and the implementation of a full basic income are daunting. On an international basis, the outlook is much...
Taiwan holds ‘electric’ Asia Pacific basic income conference
The Basic Income Asia Pacific 2018 conference signaled a feeling of growing momentum of the basic income movement in Asia Pacific, particularly in Taiwan. Over 100 attendees filled the two day conference in Taipei, along with thousands of viewers of the online...
U.S. SENATOR INTRODUCES A BILL TO IMPLEMENT BIG IN IRAQ (from 2009)
This essay was originally published in the USBIG NewsFlash in September 2009. Many people believe that the Alaska Permanent Fund Dividend is an idea ready to export—a model that should be copied around the world. Two U.S. Senators have gotten the idea that the...
