Slide presentation about UBI that I created to accompany my 40-minute keynote at DemCon 2018.

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Democracy and
Unconditional Basic Income
Scott Santens - @scottsantens
(please use hashtag #basicincome)

2. “I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is
the little death that brings total obliteration.”
-Frank Herbert, Dune

3. The democratic demand for UBI

4. “Slavery is, receiving by irresistible power the
work of another man, and not by his consent.
The freedom, as I understand it, promised by
the proclamation, is taking us from under the
yoke of bondage, and placing us where we
could reap the fruit of our own labor, take care
of ourselves and assist the Government in
maintaining our freedom.”
- Garrison Frazier, former slave, 1865

6. “Modern methods of production have given
us the possibility of ease and security for all;
we have chosen, instead, to have overwork for
some and starvation for others. Hitherto we
have continued to be as energetic as we were
before there were machines; in this we have
been foolish, but there is no reason to go on
being foolish forever.”
- Bertrand Russell, In Praise of Idleness

8. Unconditional cash provided to poorer
families increases their children’s likelihood of
voting as adults.

13. “It is a position not to be controverted that the earth,
in its natural uncultivated state was, and ever would
have continued to be, the common property of the human
race. In that state every man would have been born to
property… it is the value of the improvement only,
and not the earth itself, that is individual property.
Every proprietor, therefore, of cultivated land, owes to
the community a groundrent… In advocating the case
of the persons thus dispossessed, it is a right, and not
a charity, that I am pleading for.”
- Thomas Paine, Agrarian Justice

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