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Mandatory Participation Series Contents It’s wrong for anyone to come between another person and the resources they need to survive. No person or group has the moral authority to impose conditions on anyone else’s access to the resources they need […]
Every time you take a breath, you use something you don’t own to meet your needs without asking anyone’s permission and without paying anyone for the privilege. Although you don’t own the atmosphere, you’ve never had to get a job to earn the money […]
Hosted by Karl Widerquist (Karl@widerquist.com)Tuesdays 16:00 (s.t.) – 18:15 May 10 Video: Simon März, Video: “An extensive Universal Basic Income pilot study in Germany. A critical analysis of the proposed implementation of a UBI pilot study; further fields of research […]
The masters seminar “Ethics of Universal Basic Income” took place over six weeks in January and February 2022 at the University of Freiburg. These videos of the seminar are posted on my YouTube Channel both as a playlist and individually: […]
I’m teach a six-week masters seminar called “the Ethics of Universal Basic Income” (UBI) at the University of Freiburg, over six Fridays, January 7 – February 11, 2022. If you’d like to follow along, I’ll post the lectures on YouTube […]
An early version of my manuscript, Property and the Power to Say No: Five Arguments for Universal Basic Income is now available online. This manuscript is my first statement of the “indepentarian” theory of justice, I call, “Justice […]
“Functional finance” is a “heterodox” or “nonmainstream” economic theory that was originally developed by Abba Lerner in the 1940s. It’s best known today in one specific form of it called Modern Monetary Theory (MMT). In this form, functional […]
Two polls conducted in 2021 both found that a substantial majority of Americans now support Universal Basic Income (UBI) or some form of Guaranteed Income. One survey, conducted by Data for Progress, found that 55% of Americans support UBI while […]
AUTHOR’S NOTE: This article is a draft of the first chapter of the book I’m working on: Universal Basic Income: Essential Knowledge. It can also be thought of as a reply to Bitch Bastardly’s guest article from last week. Comments […]
By Guest Blogger, Bitch Bastardly Workers aren’t working for the wages we’re offering as much as they used to. Five million fewer Americans are working now than were working in June of 2019. That’s 3.33% of the U.S. labor force—a […]