Univerzalni temeljni dohodak (UTD)

27/02/2017

Bill Gates says it’s too early for basic income, but over time ‘countries will be rich enough’

Autor: Chris Weller

Bill Gates said in a recent Reddit AMA that basic income isn't quite ripe as a means to ease poverty.

04/11/2016

Elon Musk: Robots will take your jobs, government will have to pay your wage

Autor: Catherine Clifford

The CEO and founder of Tesla and SpaceX says that a universal basic income will allow more time for leisure.

31/10/2016

The Universal Right to Capital Income

Autor: Yanis Varoufakis

The idea that some work hard and pay their income taxes, while others live off this enforced kindness, doing nothing by choice, is untenable. If a universal basic income – liberty's main prerequisite in an age of obsolete labor – is to be legitimate, it cannot be financed by taxing Jill to pay Jack.

19/07/2016

Mladen Stilinovic, Croatian Conceptual Artist Who Slept as Performance Art, Dies at 69

Autor: Alex Greenberger

Mladen Stilinović, the Croatian conceptual artist whose work critiqued power structures and examined the relationship between art and labor, often with a tongue-in-cheek incisiveness, died last night at age 69 of what is being called “a serious illness.”

04/05/2016

The Case for Basic Income

Autor: Yanis Varoufakis

Universal Basic Income Video Yanis Varoufakis. Universal Basic Income (UBI and Citizens Income Video featuring x expressing their views on UBI. The Universal Basic Income Forum.

02/05/2016

A Basic Income Should Be the Next Big Thing

Autor: Paula Dwyer

Experiments on a social policy are suddenly taking place all over the world. Silicon Valley seems to think it makes sense, but liberals aren't so sure.

26/04/2016

Quantitative Easing for the People

Autor: Franco "Bifo" Berardi

The post-modern explosion of racism that is spreading in Europe is one the effects of the neoliberal aggression on the labor market, and of the massive impoverishment that financial capitalism is bringing about everywhere.

29/03/2016

Will capitalism survive the robot revolution?

Autor: Zoltan Istvan – TechCrunch

Economic experts are trying to figure out a question that just two decades ago seemed ridiculous: If 90 percent of human jobs are replaced by robots in the next 50 years -- something now considered plausible -- is capitalism still the ideal economic system to champion? No one is certain about the a…

28/01/2016

Some residents of Oakland are about to get a basic income

Autor: Dylan Matthews

A big, bold experiment.

12/12/2015

Istine i laži o plaći od 800 eura za koju ne treba raditi

Vijest o tome da je Finska odlučila uvesti temeljni dohodak uzburkala je medijske valove ovih dana. Zamisao da svakom građaninu država mjesečno isplaćuje određeni iznos novca, bez obzira na to je li mu to potrebno ili ne, toliko je atraktivna da svak

11/12/2015

Why Milton Friedman Supported a Guaranteed Income (5 Reasons)

Autor: Matt Orfalea

Milton Friedman proposed to give everybody free money in his book “Capitalism and Freedom”.

27/07/2015

The automation myth: Robots aren’t taking your jobs — and that’s the problem

Autor: Matthew Yglesias

Faster-than-ever technological and economic change is a myth. In fact, productivity is slowing down — and that's the biggest problem we face.

19/09/2014

The political economy of a universal basic income

Autor: Steve Randz Waldman / interfluidity

So you should read these two posts by Max Sawicky on proposals for a universal basic income, because you should read everything Max Sawicky writes. (Oh wait. Two more!) Sawicky is a guy I often agree with, but he is my mirror Spock on this issue. I think he is 180° wrong on almost every point.

14/08/2014

A Universal Basic Income and Work Incentives. Part 1: Theory

Autor: Ed Dolan

Everywhere you look, it seems, people are talking about a Universal Basic Income (UBI)—a monthly cash benefit paid to every citizen that would replace the existing means-tested welfare system.

06/08/2014

The Conservative Case for a Guaranteed Basic Income

Autor: Noah J. Gordon

Creating a wage floor is an effective way to fight poverty—and it would reduce government spending and intrusion.