Full Unemployment
Channel: Scott Santens
Date: 2019-04-24

In this episode I read one of my all-time favorite essays about universal basic income and how our goal as a society should be full unemployment, not full employment. This essay was written by John Bentley back in 2005, and was one of the earlier things I ever read about UBI that I've read over and over again since, and as a result has greatly influenced my own thinking. By sharing it with all of you now, I hope it will influence your own thinking as well.

Text available here:

https://www.philorum.org/speech/20051207JohnBentley.html

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