It is from the champions of the impossible Rather than the slaves of the possible, That evolution draws its creative force. — Barbara Wootton Since at least Thomas More’s Utopia of 1516, many thinkers have flirted with the idea of a basic income – everybody in society receiving a regular amount of income as a right. Some have recoiled at the effrontery of the idea; some have mocked it, as […]
Charles Joseph Albert | Disparity
We only honor the greediest– Carnegie, Rockefeller, Trump, Hearst– and never speak of more humble chiefs who chose to pay themselves less than a thousand times their workers rate. Just as no one remembers the name of the humble apartments behind the Vatican. When I was twenty I saw St. Peter’s, its orgy of polychrome marbles a shrine to papal conceit built by thousands of peasants. Did they go home […]
Swords into plowshares | Developing a literacy of peace
How do we build a more peaceful world and heal the wounds that seem to divide us? Initially, this month’s issue of The MOON was to explore “Swords into plowshares | Envisioning a new role for the military.” My hope was to begin a conversation about transitioning to a peacetime economy—because if we aren’t even talking about it, we certainly aren’t planning for it. But our interview this month with West […]
Films on basic income
Two documentaries–one feature length and one short–illustrate the principles and possibilities of unconditional basic income. Basic Income: The Movie is a full-length documentary created by IDEMBasel as a basis for discussion preceding the 2016 Swiss referendum for a Basic Income to be included in the Constitution. (The referendum lost, but succeeded in raising national awareness about the concept and how it might work. Its sponsors say they will try again.) The […]
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