Buford Farris, a stalwart of the basic income movement, died peacefully at aged 98 in Austin, Texas on October 5, 2024. His work was important in keeping the movement for a basic income guarantee alive during the difficult days in […]
When someone says, “They’re eating the dogs. They’re eating the cats,” the right response is, “Have you lost all touch with reality?” Have you told so many lies and found so many people willing to play along that you […]
A recent article in Gizmodo does an excellent job of explaining my position on the net cost of UBI A recent article in Gizmodo does (among other things) a great job of explaining my position on the real cost of […]
The belief in reciprocity (the belief that when you take, you should give back) causes big problems for my dog. She gets food and shelter from us. But she can’t understand that all we want in return is for […]
Jesús Aller recently published a review and summary of the Spanish translation of Grant McCall’s and my book, Prehistoria de la propiedad privada. Implicaciones para la teoría política contemporánea [The Prehistory of Private Property: Implications for Modern Political Theory]. Translated […]
One fear about Universal Basic Income (UBI) is that it could cause rents to increase, partially or entirely diverting the benefit of UBI to landlords. The real estate market has a lot of underlying problems that need to […]
A citizens group in Oregon is collecting signatures to get an Alaska-style dividend (essentially a small Basic Income) on the ballot in Oregon during the 2024 elections. Here’s how the group describes its effort: In Oregon, a ballot initiative is […]
Mandatory Participation Series Contents According to Henry David Thoreau, “the mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.” I think it’s more accurate to say the mass of people lead lives of manufactured desperation. We, as a people, are not in a […]
Mandatory Participation Series Contents In any earlier post in this series,[1] I argued that the ideal of a UBI society is one in which we all commit to respecting each individual’s right to refuse to any and all work […]
Mandatory Participation Series Contents For centuries, we have been presented with two political visions: centralized collectivism and a highly selfish conception of individualism, as if these two visions or something in between were the only possibilities. By this collectivist vision, […]