{"id":35345,"date":"2017-03-14T21:02:31","date_gmt":"2017-03-15T04:02:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/03\/basic-income-wont-fix-everything-we-need-more-innovative-social-ideas"},"modified":"2017-06-04T07:09:09","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T14:09:09","slug":"basic-income-wont-fix-everything-we-need-more-innovative-social-ideas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/03\/basic-income-wont-fix-everything-we-need-more-innovative-social-ideas","title":{"rendered":"Basic Income Won\u2019t Fix Everything, We Need More Innovative Social Ideas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/basic-income-wont-fix-everything-we-need-more-innovative-social-ideas.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A Universal Basic Income (UBI) will not fix everything\u2014 <strong>it\u2019s not supposed to <\/strong>\u2014it\u2019s a start for some people and a boon for everyone. But don\u2019t let the prospect of a little free money stop us from pursuing more progressive regulations and reforms.<\/p>\n<p>UBI is <strong>meant to provide a floor <\/strong>\u2014a standard\u2014which no one can fall beneath. But giving people unconditional free money shouldn\u2019t be the end of the conversation, says Ben Spies-Butcher, a Senior Lecturer and Director of the Masters of Policy and Applied Social Research in the Sociology Department at Macquarie University.<\/p>\n<p>In his essay \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.greeninstitute.org.au\/sites\/default\/files\/Less_Work_More_Fair_WEB_BM.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Not Just a Basic Income<\/a>\u201d for the Green Institute, Spies-Butcher writes:<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/bigthink.com\/natalie-shoemaker\/basic-income-wont-fix-everything-we-still-need-regulation?utm_campaign=Echobox&amp;utm_medium=Social&amp;utm_source=Facebook#link_time=1489499197\">http:\/\/bigthink.com\/natalie-shoemaker\/basic-income-wont-fix-...1489499197<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Universal Basic Income (UBI) will not fix everything\u2014 it\u2019s not supposed to \u2014it\u2019s a start for some people and a boon for everyone. But don\u2019t let the prospect of a little free money stop us from pursuing more progressive regulations and reforms. UBI is meant to provide a floor \u2014a standard\u2014which no one can [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":413,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-policy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35345","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\/413"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35345"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35345\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58402,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35345\/revisions\/58402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}