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After two years of experimentation within a two-year experimental design, Finland released on February 8, 2019, preliminary results of their basic income experiment. For anyone who reads the full report, it can be considered nothing short of both promising and fascinating, but what it can’t be called is complete, because the results are still preliminary and based on only the first half of the experiment. With that said, as is also true of the experiments in the U.S. and Canada in the 1970s, there are certainly some conclusions that can and can’t be drawn within the proper context of the experiment’s design. But to reach these conclusions, we’ll first need to go over some of the nitty-gritty details of how the experiment was designed, and what it didn’t even try to measure...
Text: https://medium.com/basic-income/what-is-there-to-learn-from-finlands-basic-income-experiment-did-it-succeed-or-fail-54b8e5051f60
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Is the technological automation of human labor the greatest justification for unconditional basic income? In this episode, I dive deep into how our problems are very much in the present by going beyond technology and economics, and into human biology itself. I cover what we as humans have learned from animals in the lab and in the wild, and then apply it to the UBI discussion.
Text: https://medium.com/basic-income/human-park-a-mammals-guide-to-stress-free-living-17f6cab007b3
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scottsantens.com/basic-income-faq
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Basic income is now a dominant discussion in India's 2019 general election. Here I explain the difference between what's being discussed and how actual UBI works. I also get into some of the details that are commonly misunderstood.
Text: http://www.scottsantens.com/basic-income-is-now-a-dominant-discussion-in-india-2019-ubi
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This is an audio version of my article which you can read on Medium:
medium.com/basic-income/trickle-down-economics-must-die-long-live-grow-up-economics-5b8334a0db76
For more info about UBI, please refer to my FAQ:
scottsantens.com/basic-income-faq
You can support my work through Anchor or Patreon:
patreon.com/scottsantens
Here's my January 12th, 2019 appearance on talkRADIO's The Saturday Show with Alexis Conran to talk with him about basic income and why it should replace Universal Credit in the UK.
This is an audio version of my article which you can read on Medium:
https://medium.com/basic-income/doug-ford-cancelled-ontarios-basic-income-pilot-experiment-because-it-was-working-75dd504d5fe6
For more info about UBI, please refer to my FAQ:
scottsantens.com/basic-income-faq
You can support my work through Anchor or Patreon:
patreon.com/scottsantens
This is an audio version of my article which you can read on Medium:
https://medium.com/basic-income/deep-learning-is-going-to-teach-us-all-the-lesson-of-our-lives-jobs-are-for-machines-7c6442e37a49
For more info about UBI, please refer to my FAQ:
scottsantens.com/basic-income-faq
You can support my work on Patreon:
patreon.com/scottsantens
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