Serendipity or just Attention, or 6 degrees? UBI or GMI to start?
Bill, I'd love to see Bill & Claude's Excellent Adventure re "Socialist utopia 2050: what could life in [ insert country ] be like after the failure of capitalism?" See [1].
And also re UBI, in today's Object Permanence section, Cory Docrorow posted David Graeber's Spectre TV episodes re UBI... "Here's episode 1, "What's so basic about basic income?"
"UBI is a simple idea – each person is entitled to a monthly guaranteed income – but it's not so simple in its politics and implementation. The pandemic, however, has brought the policy into the spotlight as millions find themselves unable to work whilst mega-companies like Amazon earn vast fortunes. In this discussion, monetary thinkers, basic income advocates and a sf writer get together to debate the idea."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-MNdOUML-A
"Here's the second episode: "Against Rentier Capitalism," with David Graeber, Michael Hudson & Guy Standing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1rlIXAUGans
"I hadn't seen this one, and it was a sad delight to watch.
"Rest in power, David." https://pluralistic.net/2020/09/07/facebook-v-humanity/#spectre
Attention trigger... Bill's post... Thursday, August 28, 2025 "The Role of Universal Basic Income (UBI) in the transition to a post-scarcity society" ... "The real question is not “does UBI increase labor supply?” The real question is: does UBI make us more free to live as Homo ludens — beings who flourish through play and shared creation?
"By that standard, the evidence is clear. UBI works." https://new-savanna.blogspot.com/2025/08/the-role-of-universal-basic-income-ubi.html ###
[1] See also... "How to get to a UBI by JOHN Q on MARCH 20, 2020
"Last year I published a book chapter [ Quiggin, "Basic or Universal? Pathways for a Universal Basic Income" This text is taken from After Neoliberalism, by John Quiggin, published 2024 by ANU Press, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia. doi.org/10.22459/AN.2024.09 https://press-files.anu.edu.au/downloads/press/n12514/pdf/ch09.pdf ] ... "arguing that the first step way to get to a Universal Basic Income in Australia was to expand the existing benefit system, increasing payments and removing conditionality (relevant extract over the fold).
"This is often called a Guaranteed Minimum Income (GMI). I counterposed the GMI approach to the alternative of making a small payment to everyone in the community, and then trying to increase it over time. I suggested three initial steps
"Assuming a ‘basic first’ approach is preferred, how might it be implemented? Three initial measures might be considered: ... https://crookedtimber.org/2020/03/20/how-to-get-to-a-ubi/
I'll note Bill, Quiggin has many publications re UBI, Zombie Economics and Economics in Two Lessons (there is a free lunch!... TISATAAFL) etc. He occasionally tries his hand at a future better world scenario... " Socialist utopia 2050 …" by JOHN Q on JANUARY 18, 2019 … what could life in Australia be like after the failure of capitalism?
"That’s the title of my latest piece in The Guardian . It’s had quite a good run, but of course, plenty of pushback, mainly along the following lines ... [ https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/jan/17/socialist-utopia-2050-what-could-life-in-australia-be-like-after-the-failure-of-capitalism ] ... https://crookedtimber.org/2019/01/18/socialist-utopia-2050/
Serendipity or just Attention, or 6 degrees?
ReplyDeleteUBI or GMI to start?
Bill, I'd love to see Bill & Claude's Excellent Adventure re "Socialist utopia 2050: what could life in [ insert country ] be like after the failure of capitalism?" See [1].
And also re UBI, in today's Object Permanence section, Cory Docrorow posted David Graeber's Spectre TV episodes re UBI...
"Here's episode 1, "What's so basic about basic income?"
"UBI is a simple idea – each person is entitled to a monthly guaranteed income – but it's not so simple in its politics and implementation. The pandemic, however, has brought the policy into the spotlight as millions find themselves unable to work whilst mega-companies like Amazon earn vast fortunes. In this discussion, monetary thinkers, basic income advocates and a sf writer get together to debate the idea."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-MNdOUML-A
"Here's the second episode: "Against Rentier Capitalism," with David Graeber, Michael Hudson & Guy Standing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1rlIXAUGans
"I hadn't seen this one, and it was a sad delight to watch.
"Rest in power, David."
https://pluralistic.net/2020/09/07/facebook-v-humanity/#spectre
Attention trigger... Bill's post...
Thursday, August 28, 2025
"The Role of Universal Basic Income (UBI) in the transition to a post-scarcity society"
...
"The real question is not “does UBI increase labor supply?” The real question is: does UBI make us more free to live as Homo ludens — beings who flourish through play and shared creation?
"By that standard, the evidence is clear. UBI works."
https://new-savanna.blogspot.com/2025/08/the-role-of-universal-basic-income-ubi.html
###
[1]
See also...
"How to get to a UBI
by JOHN Q on MARCH 20, 2020
"Last year I published a book chapter
[ Quiggin, "Basic or Universal? Pathways for a Universal Basic Income" This text is taken from After Neoliberalism, by John Quiggin, published 2024
by ANU Press, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia.
doi.org/10.22459/AN.2024.09
https://press-files.anu.edu.au/downloads/press/n12514/pdf/ch09.pdf ]
...
"arguing that the first step way to get to a Universal Basic Income in Australia was to expand the existing benefit system, increasing payments and removing conditionality (relevant extract over the fold).
"This is often called a Guaranteed Minimum Income (GMI). I counterposed the GMI approach to the alternative of making a small payment to everyone in the community, and then trying to increase it over time. I suggested three initial steps
"Assuming a ‘basic first’ approach is preferred, how might it be implemented? Three initial measures might be considered:
...
https://crookedtimber.org/2020/03/20/how-to-get-to-a-ubi/
I'll note Bill, Quiggin has many publications re UBI, Zombie Economics and Economics in Two Lessons (there is a free lunch!... TISATAAFL) etc.
He occasionally tries his hand at a future better world scenario...
" Socialist utopia 2050 …"
by JOHN Q on JANUARY 18, 2019
… what could life in Australia be like after the failure of capitalism?
"That’s the title of my latest piece in The Guardian . It’s had quite a good run, but of course, plenty of pushback, mainly along the following lines
...
[ https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/jan/17/socialist-utopia-2050-what-could-life-in-australia-be-like-after-the-failure-of-capitalism ]
...
https://crookedtimber.org/2019/01/18/socialist-utopia-2050/
SD.