Tag: ubi

• Marshall Islands launches world’s first universal basic income scheme offering cryptocurrency

  December 18, 2025

  Quarterly payments of $200 to be offered via stablecoin or traditional currency in a scheme designed to ease cost of living pressures in the Pacific nation https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/dec/17/marshall-islands-launches-universal-basic-income-scheme-offering-cryptocurrency-in-world-first?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other more ›

• What Is UBI | The Stanford Basic Income Lab

  August 23, 2025

  Universal basic income takes on distinct forms in different historical and geographic contexts. It varies based on the funding proposal, the level of payment, the frequency of payment, and the… more ›

• The Robots Won’t Cause Massive Unemployment This Time, Either

  June 28, 2024

  Until yesterday morning, if you’d asked me to name a US job where total employment had decreased due to 21st-century automation I might well have said ”translator. https://geekway.substack.com/p/the-robots-wont-cause-massive-unemployment more ›

• AI ‘godfather’ says universal basic income will be needed

  May 18, 2024

  https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cnd607ekl99o more ›

• The Talent Portfolio

  December 9, 2023

  This is the second part of Betting the Firm. In Part I, we explored why the company of the future will look like a venture fund. In Part II, we… more ›

• Impossibly Useless

  December 8, 2023

  The greatest trick the office ever pulled was convincing people it doesn’t exist. Even before Covid, offices were trying hard to pretend they were homes or social spaces — and… more ›

• How to Implement Universal Basic Income

  November 28, 2023

  Universal Basic Income (UBI) is increasingly at the forefront of socioeconomic debates, poised to revolutionize sectors like the culinary industry amidst the looming threat of an AI-induced workforce disruption. https://friendseat.com/blog/universal-basic-income-how-to-guide more ›

• What is participation income and how can it help communities fight climate change?

  March 28, 2023

  Universal Basic Income (UBI), a programme in which all adult citizens are given a regular amount of money to spend on what they choose, dominates the debate on the future… more ›

• Free Money at the Edge of the Tech Boom

  October 19, 2017

  Free Money at the Edge of the Tech Boom » The latest experiment in a universal basic income will be coming to Stockton, California, in the next year. more ›