The Basic Income Canada Network (BICN) in partnership with the Basic Income Earth Network(BIEN) has issued a Call for Session Proposals for the 25th BIEN Congress, taking placeAugust 20–22, 2026 in Toronto, Canada. All presentations will be in person. The Congress theme — Basic Income in a Time of Polycrisis — invites bold, rigorous, andcreative […]

Elon University reached out to me months back to take part in their survey of experts. Providing an essay in response was optional but I took the opportunity to provide one and they loved it, so it’s one of their featured essay responses. I told them this too by the way, but I leveraged AI […]

What Artemis II and the Return to the Moon Should Remind Us About Ending Poverty As I write this, four astronauts are hurtling toward the Moon aboard the Orion spacecraft, named Integrity by its crew. On April 1, 2026, NASA’s Artemis II launched from Kennedy Space Center — the first crewed mission beyond low Earth orbit in […]

Note: Interviewees include BIEN’s Catarina Neves and Jurgen De Wispelaere “Ireland has a new permanent government scheme providing regular cash transfers to 2,000 artists. The people who can access it range from circus performers to opera singers. It follows a pilot of more than three years which is believed to have brought a return on […]

Present day economics depends on a key premise: that labor markets self-correct after technological disruption. Steam displaced farmers. Electricity displaced the steam worker. The computer displaced the typist. Every time, new jobs emerged and flourished, and the world (and employees) ended up better than before. Economists built careers on this pattern. Policymakers bet civili...