The U.S. Basic Income Guarantee Network. The Gift Economy. The Libertarian Case for a Basic Income. Guaranteeing a minimum income to the poor is better than our current system of welfare, Zwolinski argues. And it can be justified by libertarian principles. This morning, I did a short interview with the Cato Institute about the libertarian case for a Basic Income Guarantee. The immediate stimulus for the conversation was the recent Swiss proposal to pay each and every and every citizen 2,500 francs (about 2,800 USD) per month. But conversation quickly turned to the question of whether some form of basic income proposal might be compatible with libertarianism. Some of my colleagues at Bleeding Heart Libertarians have certainly expressed enthusiasm for it in the past. Of course, as with any policy proposal, the details matter a lot.
Still skeptical? 1) A Basic Income Guarantee would be much better than the current welfare state. Current federal social welfare programs in the United States are an expensive, complicated mess. Wouldn’t it be better just to write the poor a check? 3. 5 Reasons to Consider a No-Strings-Attached, Basic Income for All Americans. Photo Credit: Shutterstock.com March 17, 2014 | Like this article? Join our email list: Stay up to date with the latest headlines via email. What if you could receive a guaranteed basic yearly income with no strings attached?
Sounds like a far-fetched idea, right? Half of all Canadians want it. The idea is not new: In his final book, Martin Luther King Jr. suggested that guaranteeing people money without requiring them to do anything in exchange was a good way for Americans to share in prosperity. Advocates say it’s an idea whose time has finally come. 1. Matt Bruenig calculated that by giving everybody a mere $3,000 a year, including children (who would receive the money through their parents), we could potentially cut poverty in half. In the 1970s, the small Canadian town of Dauphin ran an experiment through a social policy called “ Mincome.” 2. TRUST, GIFT & SHARING ECONOMY. Main Page - GiftEconomy. Future Positive » Gift Economy. This single page contains words and links related to the gift economy that have been posted here at Future Positive and at CommUnity of Minds. Also see: GIFTegrity, Read the Scientific Basis for the GIFTegrity, and the Specifications for a GIFTegrity.
The Hacker Milieu as Gift Culture by Eric Steven Raymond To understand the role of reputation in the open-source culture, it is helpful to move from history further into anthropology and economics, and examine the difference between exchange cultures and gift cultures. Human beings have an innate drive to compete for social status; it’s wired in by our evolutionary history. For the 90% of that history that ran before the invention of agriculture, our ancestors lived in small nomadic hunting-gathering bands. High-status individuals (those most effective at informing coalitions and persuading others to cooperate with them) got the healthiest mates and access to the best food. The simplest way is the command hierarchy. The Joy of Hacking.