When it is reported that an infrastructure investment will save $1 trillion over the next decade, most people outside city-building industries, and a scary number of them within, assume that this means 1 trillion dollars. As in, this infrastructure investment will result in 1 trillion dollars that can be spent on something else: education, health c

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This fact is even more striking when we consider that the cost of eradicating poverty in any developed country is around 1 percent of GDP. An individual unemployment benefit set at the poverty line (around $1,200 a month) and granted to all jobless individuals regardless of their place in the family structure would not only pull everyone out of pov... See more

Funding for these programs would come from steep taxes on the winners of the AI revolution: major technology companies; legacy corporations that adapted to leverage AI; and the millionaires, billionaires, and perhaps even trillionaires who cashed in on these companies’ success. The size of the stipend given is a matter of debate among proponents. S

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Le revenu universel a progressivement créé une terrible fracture dans la société. D’un côté, il y avait ceux qui avaient des emplois productifs et solvables, qui furent appelés les « travailleurs » et, de l’autre, ceux qui se contentaient du revenu universel, que l’on stigmatisa comme les « rentiers ». Et il y avait assez peu de rotations d’une cat

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