Karen Hunt In the opening scene of the original Blade Runner film, Leon, a Nexus-6 replicant is given a “Voight-Kampff Test” to determine whether or not he is human. The test is designed to provoke an emotional response. Emotions are read by scanning the iris, the colored part of your eye. The color of your …
Zoë Carter £1,600 per month is set to be paid to participants in a “Universal Basic Income (UBI) ‘micro pilot scheme’” – the first such trial in England. A total of 30 people from central Jarrow in Tyne & Wear and East Finchley in north London will be studied to assess the effect receiving UBI …
The Fight For Fifteen, Fight For 15 Movement and variations thereof started in 2012, campaigning for a $15 per hour minimum wage. Little has been heard of it recently, and, one would have thought, with the inflation caused by the lockdowns and the Biden Administration’s insane policies (foreign as well as domestic) it would now […]
Our first This Week of 2022 was dedicated not to reviewing the past but considering the future, and this year will begin just the same. What will the major narratives of 2023 be? What minor stories will be brought into the limelight while previously major plot lines are shunted backstage? Much of 2022 was spent …
Finally, xenophobes and war hawks have a party where they can really express themselves. If only there had been other parties doing that before.
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On June 1, the Big Basic Income Conversation will be holding a hangout with the Young Fabians. This two hour event will begin at 17.30 Greenwich Mean Time; note, if you are in the UK, that is an hour earlier than your watch (it’s complicated). While Fabianism is an idea that is best forgotten, Universal […]
Today we will have open forum Q n A and debate concerning the Vatican support for the new “Abrahamic Faith Center” based on Francis’ joint statement with the Grand Imam, with the explicit acceptance of humanism. Having become primarily a geopolitical tool / NGO, the Vatican is now positioning itself to become the head of […]
That’s right, it will last four days from Wednesday to Saturday, and you guessed right again, it will be held on-line, so even people in Police State Australia can attend. If you aren’t familiar with the concept of universal basic income, you can find some background to it here, other articles on this site, and […]
The concept of basic income has been around for hundreds of years, although it was the great Major Douglas who really spelt it out. The Protestant work ethic may be necessary in a world where resources are scarce, but as machines perform more and more work, we should stop creating jobs for the sake of […]
A common belief among especially American conservatives is that welfare breeds dependency and even poverty. The former is easy to understand. Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day; teach him to fish, and you feed him for a lifetime, as the saying goes. The evidence that welfare does indeed breed […]
