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Foreword to Civilization

Scott Santens

Evidence-first, positive-sum systems thinking for moving a not-yet-civilized world toward one that is.

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How to Fund Universal Basic Income by Taxing Consumption: Over $450 a Month From a VAT

A small tax on the river of our transactions can become a monthly dividend for us all

A 10% value-added tax (VAT) in the United States could raise about $1.76 trillion a year — enough to fund a universal basic income of more than $45...

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How Do We Pay for Universal Basic Income? Tax Stock the Way Companies Already Issue It.

Corporations issue new stock all the time — to raise cash, to pay executives, to swallow up other companies. So here’s a question: what if they had to issue a little new stock to the rest of us, too? I call it a stock dilution tax, and I th...

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The Primordial Credit Argument for Unconditional Basic Income (UBI)

Every time I drop a bag of garbage down the chute in my building, I think about debt.

Not the kind you pay back in monthly installments. Not the kind that shows up on a credit report. I mean the kind you can never repay no matter how long...

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The Universality Argument for Basic Income

Universal > Means Testing

Imagine a room with a thousand people. You know that 999 of them need something to survive, and one of them doesn’t. You have two options. Option one: give the same thing to all 1,000 people, and when they leave t...

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I Just Launched the AI Pledge for Humanity. Here’s Why.

I’ve been working on universal basic income full-time since 2013. Thirteen years. In that time, I’ve watched the conversation shift from “that’s a crazy idea” to “that’s inevitable.” Especially among the people building AI. And I’ve wat...

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    Writer and Unconditional Universal Basic Income (UBI) advocate with a crowdfunded basic income; Founder and CEO of the Income To Support All (ITSA) Foundation; Author of Let There Be Money

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