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The Scott Santens UBI Enterprise
by Scott Santens
Author, public speaker, and Unconditional Basic Income advocate. Explorer of all things UBI. Here you will find audio versions of my many articles and blog posts, narrated by me.
Episodes
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World’s First Nationwide Universal Basic Income Just Went Live (Marshall Islands) | The Basic Income Show #26
Episode 26 of The Basic Income Show!patreon.com/scottsantensThe Marshall Islands just made history: the world’s first permanent Universal Basic Income (UBI) is now live—paid to every citizen/resident (kids and adults) on an ongoing basis. In this episode of The Basic Income Show, Scott Santens,...
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South Korea’s Massive Rural Basic Income Pilot and What It Means for UBI | The Basic Income Show #25
Episode 25 of The Basic Income Show!patreon.com/scottsantensChapters:00:00 South Korea's huge rural basic income pilot experiment14:05 The Guaranteed Income Pilot Program Act26:30 Miracle Money Experiment Results46:56 Zack Polanski asks Richard Murphy about UBI1:10:21 Baltimore Young Families...
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Ireland Just Made Basic Income for Artists Permanent—And Much More UBI News!
Episode 24 of The Basic Income Show!patreon.com/scottsantensChapters:00:00 Ireland Makes Basic Income for Artists Permanent05:37 The UBI Derby24:27 7 Key UBI Narratives1:02:31 UBI Reduces Crime Inside of Prison1:09:26 Inequality Hurts Child Brain Development1:21:10 The Orphan Trains...
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Six New Pilot Programs Show UBI Works | The Basic Income Show
Episode 23 of The Basic Income Show!Read: https://scottsantens.substack.com/p/the-reports-of-ubis-death-are-greatlyChapters:00:00 Plugging my newest article03:56 Comingle and Bootstraps updates08:20 Boulder, CO results20:58 Alameda, CA results33:06 Ithaca, NY results47:34 New Mexico launches...
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Thailand Could Become the 1st Country with a Basic Income Guarantee
Episode 22 of The Basic Income Show!Could Thailand be the first to UBI?Chapters:00:00 Thailand Announces Negative Income Tax in 202719:27 Conrad's Trip To Brazil for the 2025 BIEN Congress26:07 UBI will mean more games like Hollow Knight: Silksong32:56 Cat Subways in a UBI Future45:50 Robert…
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The Reports of UBI’s Death Are Greatly Exaggerated
The Reports of UBI’s Death Are Greatly Exaggerated: The Mountain of Positive Results vs. Pandemic-Era NullsIn this episode, I read through my newest essay on scottsantens.substack.comChapters:00:00 Introduction00:25 Overview03:05 The Pandemic Happened09:44 The U is Universal14:25 The Household…
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The World's Greatest Politician Supports Universal Basic Income
Episode 21 of The Basic Income Show!UBI is in High School Prodigies Have It Easy Even in Another World!Chapters:00:00 The Basic Income Show at SXSW03:37 Basic Income for the Arts public consultation05:17 Guaranteed Basic Income in Palm Springs10:32 Guaranteed Basic Income in Los Angeles12:16...
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Did a New Study Weaken the Case for UBI? Here's the Data the NYT Ignored
Episode 20 of The Basic Income Show!That article in the New York Times about how little basic income does for kids was absolute trash, so we tore it apart in this episode.Chapters:00:00 Our response to the NYT about cash not helping poor kids22:35 A decades-long study about UBI's impact on...
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Inside the Movement: UBI Leaders Converge in DC for The BIG Conference | The Basic Income Show 18
Episode 18 of The Basic Income Show!What happened at this years Basic Income Guarantee (BIG) Conference? Let's talk about Zohran Mamdani and his Guaranteed Basic Income Bill.Chapters:00:00 Welcome to The Basic Income Show00:25 The BIG Conference08:17 Union of Basic Income Participants22:29 Newark...
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Clair Obscur Expedition 33 shows how much better all art will be with UBI | The Basic Income Show 16
Episode 16 of The Basic Income Show! Pope Leo and AI, Pete Buttigieg's proposal for an AI dividend, and how UBI would enable more people to become parents.Chapters:00:00 Welcome to The Basic Income Show00:55 Will Pope Leo Endorse UBI?12:08 Pete Buttigieg and AI Dividends as UBI30:30 Clair Obscure...
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Why Pope Francis Repeatedly Called for Universal Basic Income (UBI) | The Basic Income Show
Episode 15 of The Basic Income Show! Our main topic in this episode was the full-on support of UBI by Pope Francis.Chapters:00:00 Welcome to The Basic Income Show00:17 The UBI Advocacy of Pope Francis23:13 CBC Coverage of a Coalition of Feminist Orgs for UBI34:21 Theo Von and Mike Rowe Discuss...
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The Not at All Surprising Results of Germany's 3-Year UBI Experiment | The Basic Income Show Episode 14
Episode 14 of The Basic Income Show! We cover the results of Germany's unconditional basic income (UBI) pilot!Chapters:00:00 Welcome to The Basic Income Show00:21 Background to Germany's 3-year UBI Pilot09:45 Effects of UBI on Employment and Labor24:09 Effects of UBI on Mental Health and...
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If Mark Carney Becomes Canada's Next PM, Might He Implement UBI Due to AI? | The Basic Income Show
Episode 10 of The Basic Income Show! With the UK looking to invest heavily into AI, and Canada potentially electing a new leader worried about AI impacts, is UBI's window opening?Chapters:00:00 Welcome to The Basic Income Show01:14 The Los Angeles Fires14:25 Comingle as Disaster Aid29:48 Compton...
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Drone Hysteria and How Chronic Financial Stress Feeds Conspiracy Beliefs | The Basic Income Show
Episode 9 of The Basic Income Show! Suddenly it was drones, drones, drones, and just as suddenly it's all gone. Let's talk about how conspiracies are fueled by economic anxiety. Chapters: 00:00 Welcome to The Basic Income Show 02:05 Drone Hysteria and How UBI Can Reduce Conspiracy Beliefs 17:47…
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The Basic Income Show: Episode 6
Episode 6 of The Basic Income Show! In this episode, Scott Santens, Conrad Shaw, and Josh Worth discuss recent developments in the world of Universal Basic Income (UBI). They celebrate ITSA Foundation's successful fundraising for key projects, explore the implications of Nobel Prize winners...
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The Basic Income Show: Episode 5
Ep 5 of The Basic Income Show! We watch Conrad's interview with John Stossel and listen to an AI podcast about my book Let There Be Money. Also fresh evidence from the Finland Basic Income pilot and more! In this episode of the Basic Income Show, Scott Santens, Josh Worth, and Conrad Shaw discuss...
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What Dolly Parton did to show us how to best recover from all disasters | The Basic Income Show
Episode 4 of The Basic Income Show! Let's talk about the basic income that Dolly Parton mobilized in response to a disaster in Tennessee. We also debunk all the misinformation in an anti-UBI PragerU video. Summary: In this episode of the Basic Income Show, Scott Santens, Conrad Shaw, and Josh…
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The Basic Income Show: Episode 3
Episode 3 of The Basic Income Show! Canada considers basic income legislation and Bret Weinstein talks nonsense about UBI... Also an experiment that suggests UBI leads to more meritocratic outcomes! In this episode of the Basic Income Show, we discuss the recent developments surrounding basic...
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The Basic Income Show Episode 2
Episode 2 of The Basic Income Show In this conversation, Scott Santens, Conrad Shaw, and Josh Worth discuss the implications of basic income through recent pilot programs like Sam Altman's three-year experiment and Denver's Basic Income Pilot Project, analyzing the results and addressing common...
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The Basic Income Show: Episode 1
The inaugural episode of The Basic Income Show! For previous audio-only discussions between Conrad, Josh, and I, and the occasional special guest, check out the ITSA Live! playlist on Comingle's YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17-rRsLr_X4&list=PLrF7vwddTTzTWpvVvsCwrmwlg5k_v2zpV...
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Did Sam Altman's Basic Income Pilot Prove or Disprove UBI?
As a leading expert on the topic of unconditional/universal basic income (UBI), a subject area I've been focused on now since 2013, I'm constantly trying to correct misunderstandings and debunk misinformation/disinformation spread about the concept and the evidence behind it. The results of…
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Land Value Tax and UBI
This discussion took place in a Twitter (X) Space on April 3, 2024. I was joined by land value tax expert Stephen Hoskins, along with my co-hosts Conrad Shaw and Josh Worth, to discuss land value taxes and why they make so much sense to paired with universal basic income. Listen to all ITSA Live...
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The Billionaire-Fueled Lobbying Group Behind the State Bills to Ban Basic Income Experiments
Much discussion has been had around basic income as a policy response to automation and as a result, over 150 pilot experiments have been launched in cities across the US to study it. Now in response to the successful results beginning to come out from those pilots, some states are beginning to…
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Chat about UBI and Comingle with co-founders Conrad Shaw and Josh Worth
This discussion took place in a Twitter (X) Space on September 6, 2023. I was joined by the co-founders of Comingle - Conrad Shaw and Josh Worth - to discuss the project and universal basic income in general. Comingle is an app being developed to create a small basic income floor for all members....
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Keynote Speech for Basic Income North 2023 Conference
This is the audio of a speech I gave in July 2023 as the closing keynote for England's Basic Income North 2023 Conference. Video available too: https://youtu.be/U2XbrVQZLnI For more info about UBI, please refer to my UBI FAQ: http://scottsantens.com/basic-income-faq You can support these...
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A.I. Will Not Displace Everyone, Everywhere, All at Once. It Will Rapidly Transform the Labor Market, Exacerbating Inequality, Insecurity, and Poverty.
This episode is a reading of my article, "A.I. Will Not Displace Everyone, Everywhere, All at Once. It Will Rapidly Transform the Labor Market, Exacerbating Inequality, Insecurity, and Poverty." Link to read and share the article:...
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ChatGPT Has Already Decreased My Income Security, and Likely Yours Too
This episode is a reading of my article, "ChatGPT Has Already Decreased My Income Security, and Likely Yours Too", and it is read by an AI I trained on my own voice using Play.HT. It just seemed particularly fitting to do it this way. Link to read and share the article:...
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The BIG Picture of Money, Economics, and Humanity
On June 24 I took part in a panel about the macroeconomics of basic income at the 2022 BIG Conference in Portland, Oregon. Here is an audio recording of the talk I gave that day where I attempted to zoom out and look at the big picture of money, economics, and humanity. For more info about UBI,...
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Scott Santens on WPKN Radio to Talk About Unconditional Basic Income (UBI)
On July 26 I took part in a conversation on Twitter Spaces where we talked about UBI for over two hours. A segment of about 21 minutes in length was then edited from the discussion and aired on WPKN radio. Here is that episode as heard on the radio. For more info about UBI, please refer to my UBI...
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Vision and Foundations for a Better Society
From 2019 to 2021, I took part in a convening on automation, opportunity, and belonging to visualize the future and how to get to a better future among the infinitely possible versions of it. Together we crafted over many iterations a vision document of the kind of society we could be in 2040…
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Let There Be Money: Why We Need Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) and Why It Needs Universal Basic Income (UBI)
This episode is a reading of my long essay (and now also a book titled Let There Be Money) which is an in-depth exploration of Modern Monetary Theory and why MMT advocates should embrace UBI. Listening will provide a wide macroeconomic view at what money is, what actually causes inflation, what...
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Scott Santens Talking UBI on Twitter Spaces for Two Hours - August 3, 2021
On August 3, 2021, I hopped onto Twitter Spaces to talk in-depth about the concept of universal basic income (UBI). Here is the recording of that discussion I had with the hosts of the Space: Jenny Q. Ta, Aaron Bowley, and Dan Whitfield. Because they are part of the #DogeArmy, this discussion…
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An Engineering Argument for Universal Basic Income (UBI)
This one is a straight up, matter of fact, reality-driven argument for UBI. There will always be failure, and so we should plan for that failure, so that when people fail, it isn't life-threatening. It's a resilience argument for fault-tolerant design of our social and economic system. UBI...
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The Quentin Tarantino Argument for Universal Basic Income (UBI)
I've mentioned this argument in a few podcasts over the years, but I finally got around to writing it up as a new part of my UBI FAQ. This argument is another response to the common claim that people provided UBI will just watch TV and play video games. Instead of the usual response using…
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My Response to Steve Forbes' Opposition to UBI
Steve Forbes recently came out against UBI in a 3-minute video that was filled to the brim with the standard objections to UBI, including the notion that everyone would stop working (which would hurt the economy and their dignity), which of course was really rich coming from someone really rich,...
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UBI as the Social Vaccine of the 21st Century
I originally published this article in 2015, and to this day it remains an article I frequently link to in order to help people understand how expensive poverty is, and how much we would save by directly abolishing it with unconditional basic income. Whenever someone makes the claim that UBI is...
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Tyranny of Kindess: Part 3
The horror show that is our conditional welfare system remains unknown to most everyone. In 1993, Theresa Funiciello wrote a Pulitzer-nominated book to try to help change that by laying bare the details she learned as a welfare mother herself, and as someone who worked at an organization devoted…
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True Freedom Comes With UBI
This episode is a reading of my article published on November 11, 2016 about the importance of UBI to attaining freedom for all. Freedom for all would be an achievement only spoken about in rhetoric and hypotheticals. There will never be true freedom from sexual and corporate exploitation and all...
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The Future of the United States Depends on the Immediate Adoption of Universal Basic Income
This episode is a reading of my article published on April 8, 2020 that goes into what a terrible idea it is to dump everyone onto the unemployment rolls in response to the coronavirus crisis, how automation means many of those jobs are now permanently gone, and just how many lives are likely to…
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Tyranny of Kindness: Part 2
The horror show that is our conditional welfare system remains unknown to most everyone. In 1993, Theresa Funiciello wrote a Pulitzer-nominated book to try to help change that by laying bare the details she learned as a welfare mother herself, and as someone who worked at an organization devoted…
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Why Should We Support the Idea of an Unconditional Basic Income?
In 2014, I self-published my first article on Medium that to this day I think remains a solid introduction to UBI. Up until this article, I'd been reading a lot about UBI and engaging in a lot of discussion on Reddit about UBI, but this was my first attempt at "giving back" to the discussion with...
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Tyranny of Kindness: Chapter 1
The horror show that is our conditional welfare system remains unknown to most everyone. In 1993, Theresa Funiciello wrote a Pulitzer-nominated book to try to help change that by laying bare the details she learned as a welfare mother herself, and as someone who worked at an organization devoted…
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How We Can Transform America’s Broken Economic System to Work for Everyone
Originally published in 2015, this article was written as an introduction to systems thinking, and how if we look at the United States as a system, we can reform it in systemic ways to function better, not just for some citizens, but for every citizen. I think fellow Andrew Yang supporters will...
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There is No Policy Proposal More Progressive than Andrew Yang’s Freedom Dividend
In this podcast I make the case that there's no policy being proposed by any 2020 Presidential candidate that's as progressive as Andrew Yang’s Freedom Dividend. This is for all the progressives who think otherwise. Read the article:...
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Sam Seder and Scott Santens: The Lost UBI Interview
On January 19th, 2017, I recorded an interview with Sam Seder as his guest on his Ring of Fire podcast to talk about UBI. Until yesterday, I was under the impression the episode had never been posted, because I was never told about it, never saw it shared anywhere, and could never find it…
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It’s Time We Take a Closer Look at America’s Three Favorite Words: Freedom, Liberty, and Democracy
Freedom, liberty, democracy… these words are used so often that we give them little real thought, rarely holding them up to the realities of what we see around us. What do these words really mean? Do they currently exist for us to celebrate as we appear to think they do? And if not, is there...
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Agrarian Justice by Thomas Paine
In the Winter of 1795 and 1796, one of the the Founding Fathers of the United States of America, Thomas Paine, wrote an essay that to this day over two centuries later, remains perhaps the greatest justification of all justifications for unconditional basic income. His argument is founded on the...
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‘Universal Basic Income Doesn’t Work’ Says New Prime Example of Fake News
In April 2019, a report titled “Universal Basic Income: A Union Perspective” was paid for and published by Public Services International (PSI), a global trade union representing 20 million workers employed around the world providing public services. This report was authored by Anna Coote and…
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In Praise of Idleness by Bertrand Russell
In 1932, Bertrand Russell wrote one of my all-time favorite essays. In Praise of Idleness focuses on humanity's infatuation with work, and how if we divided the work more evenly instead of relegating some to poverty and others to overwork, we could all work four hours a day without anyone being...
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The Progressive Case for Replacing the Welfare State with Universal Basic Income
Back in 2016, I pitched an article to TechCrunch about explaining the progressive case for replacing welfare programs with unconditional basic income. This is the article I wrote which continues to be widely shared by readers as one of their favorites of mine, especially now that Andrew Yang is...
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Author, public speaker, and Unconditional Basic Income advocate. Explorer of all things UBI. Here you will find audio versions of my many articles and blog posts, narrated by me.
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