UBI - Universal Basic Income

This is a holding post for links, rather than an attempt to comprehensively analyse the concept (the titles of my posts shown in this colour):  

• Basic Income Earth Network   https://basicincome.org/  
  

• "A UBI may (largely) pay for itself"   https://politicalmusingsofkayleen.blogspot.com/2021/04/ubi-may-pay-for-itself.html  

• “Early findings from the world’s largest UBI study”   https://www.givedirectly.org/2023-ubi-results/   The two year results included:   “a monthly universal basic income (UBI) empowered recipients and did not create idleness (that has to be a classic US/neoliberal way of thinking)   ...   both a large lump sum and a long-term UBI proved highly effective   ...   a short-term UBI was the least impactful of the designs but still effective   ...   governments should consider changing how they deliver cash aid.”    The summary includes insightful explanations, and the article includes a reasonable overview of what was done. My only criticism of this work is that it doesn’t include assessment of the value of long term low amounts - such as enabling children to pay for report cards (attending the school may be free, but to get a report card may be a cost that poorer people cannot afford, thus limiting future employment opportunities);  
  

• "Australians support universal health care, so why not a universal basic income?"   https://theconversation.com/australians-support-universal-health-care-so-why-not-a-universal-basic-income-91572   

• "Opinion: Universal basic income should be seen as a rightful share of society's wealth"   https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-05-14/universal-basic-income-wont-stop-people-working/9746544   

• "Universal basic income seems to improve employment and well-being"   https://www.newscientist.com/article/2242937-universal-basic-income-seems-to-improve-employment-and-well-being/#Echobox=1598028651   

• "Exploring the practicalities of a basic income pilot"   https://apo.org.au/node/217446   "Insights from around the globe: an international learning report from BIEN 2018 Congress"   

• From "Post No. 1,156 – Gnwmythr’s News Ed. No. 213"   https://gnwmythr.blogspot.com/2018/05/normal-0-false-false-false-en-au-x-none.html:   
• "Finland has backed away from its “Universal Basic Income” trial – or, perhaps more accurately, “flat-cheque 'permanent' (for the duration of the trial) support for (a sample of) the unemployed” – see also this slightly right wing opinion (which ignores burnout, worker abuse and neoliberal government abuse of those on welfare), although I agree in the value and dignity of work and not stigmatising those cast out by technology";

• "Rise of the machines: Is a universal basic income the answer for mass unemployment?"   https://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-07-04/universal-basic-income-money-for-nothing/8676834  
  

• "What if free money is the only answer to AI?"   https://joanwestenberg.medium.com/what-if-free-money-is-the-only-answer-to-ai-8cca7e6ab96a   "A 60-year History of the Universal Basic Income’s Overnight Necessity"  
  

• "Kenya's Basic Income Experiment"   https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3cswjxh   (audio)  
  

• “Henderson’s legacy: Revisiting universal basic income”   https://pursuit.unimelb.edu.au/articles/henderson-s-legacy-revisiting-universal-basic-income  

• “Nobody Wants to Work?”   https://youtu.be/9X3YSVrck8Y?si=IogHWHRPPr-klJL9   An utterly BRILLIANT rebuttal of the rubbish notion of people not wanting to work - and an excellent perspective on what is important or not, and work conditions/rights