World Basic Income - its catching on

Basic Income for All.
Pipe dream or possibility?

We may not be hearing much about the global efforts to set a basic income guarantee at home but that doesn't mean it's not happening..
A number of countries are launching concepts and plans to distribute money to everyone with no obligation to help raise economic standards and offer people a wider range of life choices and steps to economic freedom.
Most skeptics write off the idea without taking even a moment to absorb the premise.
Well, it won't be easy being more fair and just in distribution of the world's resources
because most of it is being hoarded ... By a few folks who will battle hard to keep their stuff...

Let that fight begin..
Here today, in Salford England, a hundred plus folks from a number of different countries ; UK, New Zealand, Portugal, France, Finland, and others including 1 guy from USA, all exploring options, looking at numbers and exercising skills for jumping all the barriers that are bound to arise.
The current global economic model is rapidly growing significant disparity and injustice.. The next few years will bring lots of uncertainty as jobs all over the world are automated.. A next gen economy needs to provide more for all... It will take time ...b

The Sacred Trinity Church is full.

 Webcasts, tweets and other e-info sources are expanding the audience.

Info on World Basic Income can be found at worldbasicincome.org.uk

And in the USA we have a fledgling organization spreading the word and ideas.
USBIG... Find out more at
binews.com

The Journey Begins

Not that our lives aren't already filled with the wackyness of political chaos and uncertainty brought about by new abnormal .. let me pile on a bit more wacky and begin the conversation about some soon to be realized chaos and wacky.
Policies and decisions that come out of the new abnormal now will have big impacts on the somewhat more distant future. Specifically in the future of work for humans.
We are on the cheap technology cusp of rapidly replacing many jobs.  There is more and more evidence - but little planning - that the impact may be fast and big.  We all see cute little stories about how a robot or algorithm or automated process is absorbing a job or function that up to now only a human could do.  That scares me - not sure there are a lot of others concerned about it ..yet.
The common response - most often offered by those who will replace humans with machines - is " as has happened in the past, we'll probably create more jobs than we lose."
Sure..  Humans, in the past, were always were smarter or more dexterous requiring some form of machine operation interaction ..like a finger on the kill switch - or using the fix-it tool kit - or adapting to the unforseen.
That's all changing as the machine is developing capacity to learn, operate, fix itself and react to new scenarios with much less intervention.. for a short time ... then it will need none.
Not all jobs will go fast.  Right now, by some accounts, maybe half our jobs could be automated if the price point and cost effective retooling can happen. Some of that may take a few years but as time goes by - we exponentially enhance our ability to make it happen faster.
So - we have a problem looming that right now is masked by the noise, the chaos, the political posturing... as the tech world is moving faster than ever to build and sell the machines that that will eat human jobs and the last gen economy.
Here's the kick off to the journey.
Right here -in this blog Next Gen Economy -  our bias is focused on the inevitable elimination of the need for humans to work.  Subsequently, humans will not have wages and will not be contributors in the economy as it is now designed.  New economic designs must be explored taking into account the probability that msot things will be done cheaper better faster etc by machines.
This kind of monster next gen economic shift may take way longer than the machine takeover .. we don't have much time.  - We need to research - learn - experiment - and move for changes that can work. There are many other nations around the glob at work on this than the USA. We need to catch up.
I have studied a bit on robots, AI, technological unemployment, and possibilities for the next generation economy - but there is not a hell of a lot of info and data...yet.. I'm no expert but there's not a lot of company in this club....yet..
This blog is intended to be a source of info - to add some info and answers and making our complex and chaotic world even a bit more crazy and scary until we find the best ways to adjust and act.
The first leg on this physical journey in the quest for next gen economy ideas is Manchester England.
The World Basic Income (WBI-UK) group there is holding the world's first conference dedicated to exploring a global basic income approach.
More news to come...