The following is a report on a talk held on 14.02.2015 by the London Futurists. David Jenkins and Barb Jacobson spoke for around 50 minutes, followed by just over an hour of discussion. Comments and questions were wide-ranging, and spread along a great many different political, social and economic spectra. This is an attempt to […]
Following on from a report I wrote summarising a meeting held in the Houses of Parliament back in April, this is a report from a lively and interesting discussion that took place on the 30th October at the Institute of Education, London. Invited speakers were Barb Jacobson , coordinator at Basic Income UK, Ben Baumberg, Lecturer […]
Britain’s richest people are wealthier than ever before, as the May, 2014 publication of Sunday Times Rich List, a list of the 1000 richest families in the UK, found. Almost 500 of the top 1000 richest UK families live in London, but just those families have almost a quarter of the wealth of the superrich […]
This article is a (possible? viable?) response to one of the few criticisms against UBI that actually holds water. My training is not as an economist and so this intended as a starting point for a larger discussion. If everybody received a UBI, so the argument goes, the price of goods will increase: If I […]
During a week of talks that gathered people in 10 different European countries organised by advocacy group Basic Income Earth Network (BIEN), a new UK activist cell called UK Basic Income met on September 16th to announce it’s mission statement. The UK group is targeting a simple, universal tax benefit that would permanently free the […]
The UK’s weakest adults have been dealt a blow by budget cuts as councils strip adult care services to their bare bones, a national association of adult careers has found. Some disabled adults and seniors lacking the ability to wash themselves are having to tough it out, reported BBC’s programme, 5 Live investigates. Almost all […]
You do not need to adjust your computers. The following video is not parody. It comes straight from the black soul of capitalism without filter or irony. This video is Coca-Cola spreading the message that they care for the workers they have systematically exploited – and murdered with para-military assistance – across the Majoritarian World. […]
This article considers the relation between basic income, questions of housing and issues of access to land.
A survey on basic income conducted by the Sheffield Equality Group concludes public support for a Basic Income has the potential to be strong.
What would a world without “work” – those scare quotes are important – really look like? The following is openly utopian – hopefully in the best possible sense of that word – but its inspiration essentially boils down to the maximization of time and the minimization of worry. I assume a lot and there are certainly gaps, practical […]
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