The ethics of UBI

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Low-Income People in the United States Are Working Too Much. Interview of Karl Widerquist by Sathvik Vasam and Zachary Weaver. UBI Builders: Peer-to-Peer Unconditional Income YouTube Channel, recorded Summer 2023, posted Sep 25, 2023
Dr. Widerquist on UBI (Audio Interview). By Johnathan Findlay (Interview). World Economic Federation Interviews Episode 1, World Economic Federation YouTube Channel, May 2, 2023
On the ethics of UBI: Enno Schmidt talking to Karl Widerquist (video interview). By Enno Schmidt. Freiburg Institute for Basic Income Studies’ YouTube Channel, Sep 28, 2022
Should we have a voluntary or a mandatory participation economy? By Karl Widerquist in Work, Participation and UBI (with Alina Plitman, Milena Kowalska, and James Mulvale). Chaired by Greg Marston. Recorded at the Basic Income Earth Network Congress, September 28, 2022, posted November 16, 2022
Canadians with Disabilities & their Allies – Karl Widerquist. Interview by Patricia Scrafield. Neil Matheson YouTube Channel, October 24, 2022
Karl Widerquist on UBI, voting and Trust.” By the FRIBIS UBI Workshop, Tom Pogson YouTube Channel, June 23, 2022
Ethics of UBI, video 2: Van Parijs’s “Real Libertarian” Case for UBI. By Karl Widerquist, Karl Widerquist’s Research (YouTube Channel), Recorded 14 January 2022, posted 15 January 2022
Karl Widerquist, “Ethics of UBI, video 1: Prehistoric Myths in Modern Political Philosophy. By Karl Widerquist, Karl Widerquist’s Research (YouTube Channel), Recorded 14 January 2022, posted 15 January 2022
Universal Basic Income and Property Rights. Interview of Karl Widerquist by Sam Barton. Talk of Today Podcast. YouTube, Aug 6, 2021
UBI and the Dignity of Work. By Techopian Team, Techopian, August 3, 2021
The Case for Universal Basic Income in Six Minutes (video). By Karl Widerquist. YouTube, 24 May 2021
Karl Widerquist and Jean-Fabien Spitz discuss the history and justification of Universal Basic Income. Futurs de la Protection Sociale YouTube Channel, recorded, May 2018, post March 31, 2021
A Global Look at Universal Basic Income with Karl Widerquist (audio 38:38). Interview by John Torpey for the International Horizons Podcast – Ralph Bunche Institute. March 29, 2021 (Audio with transcript)
-Also available on YouTube (video 28:38)
UBI is the farthest thing from something for nothing. Karl Widerquist speaks at the 2020 Basic Income March in New Orleans, Humanity First Movement Louisiana YouTube Channel, recorded September 19, 2020, posted September 20, 2020
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Dkjzi-mmCU
Supporting People, the Environment, UBI (video interview). By Blair Walsingham (host) and Karl Widerquist (interviewee), Its Your Vote (Episode 6), Blair For CongressYouTube, August 21, 2020
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Ugy0-9eaWk
The Universal Basic Income Debate (video). By Petar Josic (host) and Marco Annunziata and Karl Widerquist (debators), Digi-Debates, Aug 13, 2020
Boston Basic Income #116: Power to Say No (video). Panel discussion hosted by Alex Howlett, Boston Basic IncomeYouTube, Aug. 26, 2020
Also available as a podcast
‘The Prehistory of Private Property’: Karl Widerquist introduces his new book with Grant McCall (video). By Karl Widerquist, Worldwide 9th Meeting of UBI Advocates and UBI NetworksYouTube, Recorded June 9th, 2020. First broadcast: June 14th 2020
Basic Income Tea: #FutureOfWork: Business, but NOT as usual (video). By Antonis Triantafyllakis, Basic Income Tea – Sunday Webinars, Universal Basic Income-Europe, Sunday, 21 June, 2020
Conversation with Karl Widerquist (video). By Larry Liu. Mr. Liu’s Opinion, June 24, 2020
Private Property,” video lecture by Karl Widerquist, Boston Basic Income #98, Hosted by Alex Howlett, Apr 15, 2020
A Conversation with Karl Widerquist (video). By Ching Juhl (host). Juhl Media, YouTube, June 22, 2020

Boston Basic Income #122: Moral Framing (video). By Alex Howlett, Boston Basic Income, Oct 7, 2020
Also available as a podcast
Secular and Religious Perspectives on Basic Income. Panel discussion with Stuart White (Chair), Malcolm Torry, Hasanain Jaffar, Louise Haagh, Robert Van der Veen, Karl Widerquist, and Faizun Mustafa. INBI Foundation YouTube Channel, December 16, 2019
Basic Income, the Commons, and Sovereign Wealth Funds. Panel discussion with Guy Standing (Chair), Rahul Basu, Nam Hoon Kang, Karl Widerquist, Hilde Latour, and Joe Geldhof. INBI Foundation YouTube Channel, December 15, 2019
Elms College Humanities Lecture: “Freedom, Basic Income, and the Abolition of Poverty”. By Karl Widerquist, ElmsCollegeVideoYouTube, posted November 18, 2019 (recorded October 28, 2019)
Karl Widerquist addresses the NOLA YangGang (three part video), Karl Widerquist YouTube Channel, recorded November 15, 2019, posted October 2019 in three parts:
-Part 1: Why We Need a Basic Income: Widerquist talks with the New Orleans YangGangKarl Widerquist YouTube Channel, Nov 15, 2019 (Video 9:25)
-Part 2: The Right & Wrong Ways to Talk About Automation & UBI: Widerquist and the NOLA Yang GangKarl Widerquist YouTube Channel, Nov 15, 2019 (Video 15:28)
-Part 3: Discussion Basic Income Over a Beer: Widerquist meets the New Orleans YangGangKarl Widerquist YouTube Channel, Nov 15, 2019 (Video 34:56)
UBI March – NYC – October 26, 2019 (video). By Juhl Media. Posted October 28, 2019.
Universal Basic Income: the power to say ‘no’, for everyone. Cartoon video with text by Neil Howard and Karl Widerquist. Published by OpenDemocracy and YouTube. Dec 1, 2019.
Reposted on Twitter [direct link] and Facebook [direct link]
Debunking the UBI Myths (video). By Jon Munitz, the Hill of Roses, August 11, 2020
The Power to Say No and American Social Policy (video), lecture with questions and answers by Karl Widerquist, delivered at Florida State University’s College of Social Work conference, “Poverty in America: Critical Perspectives on Causes, Effects and Possible Solutions,” March 1, 2019
Dan Schneider Video Interview #265: Prehistoric Myths in Modern Political Philosophy. By Dan Schneider (host) interviewing Karl Widerquist, Cosmoetica, May 23, 2019
Universal Basic Income–For or Against? A Debate between Karl Widerquist and Oren Cass (video). Moderated by Charles Wheelen. October 30, 2019, The Rockefeller Center and the Political Economy Project of Dartmouth College
Basic Income: Favorite Argument (video 22 seconds). Karl Widerquist, Basic Income Visuals YouTube Channel, Oct 31, 2018
-Reposted as Argument for basic income Karl Widerquist (video 42 seconds), Bi-Produktion YouTube Channel, May 20, 2019
Interview with Karl Widerquist (video), questions by Victor Mardellat and Télémaque Masson, Canal-U.TV (Paris), June 18, 2018. (Language: English).
Reposted on YouTube, Nov 29, 2020
Prehistoric Myths in Modern Political Philosophy (video), lecture by Karl Widerquist, at the University of Paris, June 18, 2018 (Language: English).
-Also on YouTube, Prehistoric Myths in Modern Political Philosophy (video)
My own private basic income, by Karl Widerquist, OpenDemocracy, June 2, 2017.
-Reprinted in Moon Magazine, 2017, “My own private basic income.
-Audio version published by OpenDemocracy, read by Karl Miller, on Curio.io Souncloud channel, “My own private basic income,” November 2017.
-Audio version, “My own private basic income,” is also available on YouTube.

We don’t have freedom without basic income (video 2:53). Interview of Karl Widerquist by Enno Schmid, Basic Income Earth Network Channel, YouTube, recorded June 29, 2014, posted February 9, 2015
-Reposted in edited from as We don’t have freedom without Basic Income (video 1:21)Basic Income Visuals YouTube Channel, Nov 13, 2018
Unconditional Basic Income and Freedom / Grundeinkommen und Freiheit (BIEN2012). By Robert Ulmer, Karl Widerquist, and Karl Reitter, Netzwerk Grundeinkommen YouTube Channel, recorded 2012, post January 20, 2013
Status Freedom. PowerPoint presentation by Karl Widerquist. Set to music by Robin Ketelaars. Robin Ketelaars YouTube Channel, September 21, 2012