Let’s build communities, livelihoods, and small-scale economies — I have previously written about why Universal Basic Income (UBI) may result in poor outcomes, even if we’re able and willing to implement it. Here, I invite you to think about what an alternative — one that still addresses the issues UBI hopes to solve — might look like. If…

A long and convoluted allegory about the difference between what you can acquire and what you can keep. Unspoiler: I got carried away by a totally unnecessary thousand words here so if you don’t feel like reading silly stories about dead monarchs you can skip to the last section that…

What if we implement UBI and it makes everything worse? — Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime. Wait, scratch that — he won’t eat for a lifetime. Automation took over and fished the metaphorical seas dry. Meanwhile, some bold tech leaders pipe up…