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The 200-Year Experiment: How a 'Privileged' Basic Income in Brazil Proves We Can Afford to Be Universal
From $500 to $15,000 a Month: How Decades of Data Prove That an Unconditional Basic Income Guarantee Fuels Ambition Instead of Laziness
 • Scott Santens
The $1,000 Lie: Why Trump Accounts Are the Wrong Answer to the Right Question
Billionaires are lining up to seed investment accounts for kids, but we already know how to end child poverty — and waiting until age 18 isn’t it
 • Scott Santens
Finland Gave Two Groups Identical Payments. One Experienced 33% Better Mental Health.
New research from Finland's basic income experiment proves that simply trusting people with money—not just the money itself—significantly improves…
 • Scott Santens
Eduardo Porter is Still Wrong About UBI and AI: A Response to The Guardian
Universal Basic Income Isn’t a Job Replacement Plan—It’s an AI Dividend and Stable Income Floor That Protects Work, Wages, and Democracy
 • Scott Santens
Elon Musk is Wrong About Basic Income and Crime: Here is the Pile of Evidence He Ignored
Why Elon Musk is wrong about the Finland experiment, and why we must stop ignoring the massive body of evidence that proves poverty is a policy choice…
 • Scott Santens
The Gift-Giving Argument for Universal Basic Income
How Christmas gift-giving exposes the flaw in means-tested welfare and makes the case for truly universal basic income
 • Scott Santens
The Marshall Islands Just Quietly Implemented the First National Universal Basic Income (UBI)
How the Marshall Islands built the first nationwide universal basic income, funded by a US-capitalized Compact Trust Fund, and what it means for UBI…
 • Scott Santens
Foreword to Civilization
Foreword to Civilization
Evidence-first, positive-sum systems thinking for moving a not-yet-civilized world toward one that is.
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