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Basic Income

·Sep 21

How to Win a Strike (every time!)

An Actor Prepares… to fix the economy — I had started writing a long-winded piece (as I’m wont to do) about labor empowerment, universal basic income (UBI), and the tool I’m helping to build to radically alter the power dynamic in America in favor of the common individual and worker. NOTE: If you’re unfamiliar with UBI, you can…

Basic Income

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How to Win a Strike (every time!)
How to Win a Strike (every time!)
Basic Income

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Basic Income

·Jul 19

Octopus’s Garden

If Ringo wrote about #UBI — (to the tune of Octopus’s Garden) I’d like to see The different me Who’d emerge from where he’s hiding in his cave. And watch us all Pursue the worthy call To focus more on living than the grave. With UBI For every gal and guy Think of all the time we’ve wasted…

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Basic Income

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Mar 11

So Go I

on solidarity, self-interest, and music — A Musical Inspiration There’s this song I really love. It’s an aspirational hymn about the higher callings of compassion and, more pointedly, solidarity. It’s called “So Go I” by Bryan Cahall. Before I go on about it any further, give it a listen: (lyrics below so you can hum or sing along once…

Basic Income

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So Go I
So Go I
Basic Income

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Basic Income

·Sep 27, 2021

Why UBI?

a poem — How you gonna lose that student debt? This is why UBI. How’ll you afford that trip to the vet? This is why UBI. How you gonna feed your family healthy? This is why UBI. On generous tax breaks for the wealthy? This is why UBI. How you gonna keep up…

Basic Income

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Why UBI?
Why UBI?
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Basic Income

·Jan 18, 2021

UBI in an App!

rolling out in 2021 — Hi folks. I have a BIG announcement. Basic income is coming in 2021. If you are an American citizen with a bank account, you will be able to be one of the first human beings to receive a sustainable, permanent, guaranteed, all-inclusive income floor. This year. It’s called Comingle. Let…

Basic Income

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UBI in an App!
UBI in an App!
Basic Income

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·Sep 19, 2020

The Shame that Binds Us

our most universal and damaging form of religious guilt — family bonds My younger brother Oliver has always had stronger religious inclinations than either my older brother Dylan or myself. At least, that’s what I thought for a long time. In retrospect, I think he was just more open to spirituality than either of us. …

Money

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The Shame that Binds Us
The Shame that Binds Us
Money

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Basic Income

·Jul 6, 2020

How to Build a Movement in Record Time

the role of alternative media in UBI’s grassroots explosion — NOTE: This article is an adaptation of a chapter, called “The Role of Media in the Basic Income Movement,” that I contributed to a textbook called Political Activisim and Basic Income Guarantee: International Experiences and Perspectives Past, Present, and Near Future (Palgrave MacMillan, 2020) which I based on a speech…

Media

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How to Build a Movement in Record Time
How to Build a Movement in Record Time
Media

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Basic Income

·Apr 7, 2020

Doctor’s Orders

finding the right coronavirus prescription for America — Hello America. You’re looking worse for wear. I see that you’re experiencing symptoms of a pandemic. Please hop up on the exam table. I’ll tell it to you straight. You’ve got it. You’re sick as a dog with this bug that’s been going around. Like every other country in the…

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Doctor’s Orders
Doctor’s Orders
Coronavirus

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Basic Income

·Mar 12, 2020

How to Outsmart a Plague

beating coronavirus before it beats us — NOTE: LAST UPDATED 3/15 Let’s Talk About Coronavirus People don’t know what to think about it, how scared to be, how to prepare, how bad it will get, how our government is handling it, how our government should be handling it, and more. …

Health

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How to Outsmart a Plague
How to Outsmart a Plague
Health

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·Mar 5, 2020

After Yang

the end of the campaign & what’s next for UBI in America — Andrew Yang is out of the Democratic primary race, so what’s next for universal basic income (UBI) in America? First, let’s talk about where and how his campaign ended. Let’s talk about New Hampshire. The Granite State I was there, driving from city to city, walking miles in the cold, knocking on the…

Politics

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After Yang
After Yang
Politics

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Conrad Shaw

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Writer, UBI researcher (@theUBIguy), Actor, Filmmaker, Engineer

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