{"id":26373,"date":"2016-06-02T09:48:19","date_gmt":"2016-06-02T16:48:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/universal-basic-income-hits-the-u-s-citizens-will-get-paid-just-for-being-born"},"modified":"2017-06-04T19:58:09","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T02:58:09","slug":"universal-basic-income-hits-the-u-s-citizens-will-get-paid-just-for-being-born","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/universal-basic-income-hits-the-u-s-citizens-will-get-paid-just-for-being-born","title":{"rendered":"Universal Basic Income Hits the U.S\u2014Citizens Will Get Paid Just For Being Born"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/universal-basic-income-hits-the-u-s-citizens-will-get-paid-just-for-being-born.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Y Combinator, a seed accelerator and startup incubator, plans to inaugurate a short-term \u201cuniversal basic income\u201d experiment in Oakland, California; it\u2019s a first step toward a larger, projected five-year study of the guaranteed cost-of-living salary.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s been a lot of talk lately about \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/futurism.com\/images\/universal-basic-income-answer-automation\/\">basic income<\/a>\u201d\u2014the notion of a guaranteed financial disbursement to every human being simply for being alive.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s an idea that has garnered a great deal of support in certain circles, for obvious reasons (free money); however, many see it as the natural progression of society\u2026as the only viable way of dealing with issues like increased automation, poverty, etc. Indeed, many see in a universal basic income (UBI) an instrument of liberty, and an effective tool for combating the threats of social unrest, economic dislocation, and various other forms of civil strife that are often the corollaries of unemployment.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/futurism.com\/y-combinator-to-launch-basic-income-pilot-program-in-california\/\">http:\/\/futurism.com\/y-combinator-to-launch-basic-income-pilo...alifornia\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Y Combinator, a seed accelerator and startup incubator, plans to inaugurate a short-term \u201cuniversal basic income\u201d experiment in Oakland, California; it\u2019s a first step toward a larger, projected five-year study of the guaranteed cost-of-living salary. There\u2019s been a lot of talk lately about \u201cbasic income\u201d\u2014the notion of a guaranteed financial disbursement to every human being [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-finance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26373"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26373\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67368,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26373\/revisions\/67368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}