Tag Archives: UBI

What if jobs are not the solution but the problem? | Aeon Essays

Posted on 2022-03-29 by alan

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More Thoughts on UBI

Posted on 2020-05-31 by alan

The main problem with Universal Basic Income proposals is that there are so many of them, and they are so completely different from one another, that the term is no longer meaningful. But the current need for governments to distribute … Continue reading →

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What’s Wrong with Yang’s UBI Proposal?

Posted on 2019-10-23 by alan

US Democrat presidential nomination candidate Andrew Yang includes a kind of universal basic income in his platform; and he identifies it as a “dividend” which I prefer because it clarifies that it is not welfare but a deserved share of … Continue reading →

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Capital

Posted on 2016-08-30 by alan

Capitalism is generally thought of as a phenomenon of the last two or three centuries, but I think there is a sense in which it is NOT a new, or even distinctly human, phenomenon. The conventional understanding of capitalism is … Continue reading →

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