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The Achilles Heel of Guaranteed Income Plans

Most of us derive two entirely different things from work. Both are vital. The first is income, the second is meaning. I’ve been told that people who are given the opportunity for a guaranteed income manage to find their own meaning in short order. I would love to see this research, but so far it’s not […]

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This Must Become a Collaboration

So far, nearly all of the postings at this website have been my own. However, I do not want this to continue. I have invited Society members with whom I correspond; men and women of accomplishment, to write guest blogs. None has yet found the time. They are busy people who, unlike me, are not […]

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Citizen Income Vs. Guaranteed Income

I’ve written elsewhere about the many hurdles standing between the beautiful idea of a guaranteed income and its actual implementation in a way that takes care of all the people.  Briefly, all approaches to a guaranteed income (universal, basic and minimum) share certain characteristics. They propose that everyone in the society–or at least all of […]

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What Will the World be like in 2053?

(Note: this was originally posted as an invited answer on Quora. However, by writing this I extended my previous thinking in some new ways, so I thought it should also appear here.) I’ll turn 100 in that year, so I’m pleased you chose it. As I see it, assuming we avoid scenarios in which civilization implodes, […]