Archive - Foreword to Civilization

From Reagan, to Bush, to the Contract with America, to George W. Bush, to Trump, the child tax credit is a Republican creation that the GOP should embr…

Sep 15

Thoughts about basic income, surviving disasters, and the future we must escape from

Sep 8

Your freedom to do what you want ends at the freedoms of others to not be killed.

Aug 10

Making Our New Guaranteed Income for Kids Permanent is a Real Path to Universal Basic Income (UBI)

Jul 30

We can increase incomes, reduce taxes, accelerate automation, and grow the economy.

Mar 1

Care work is work. We need to recognize it and support it with monthly income.

Feb 6

Biden is in and Trump is out, but it's nowhere near the end of our problems as a democracy in dire need of systemic reforms and more widely shared pros…

Jan 13

Questioning the strategy of non-universal cash grant pilot experiments

Oct 27, 2020

(Because Trump needs to go, because we need campaign finance reform, and because of the potential for fully refundable tax credits and monthly stimulus…

Oct 12, 2020

Inhumanity reigns so long as we don’t trust each other with the power to choose the directions of our own lives, free of economic coercion

Oct 5, 2020

Welcome to Foreword to Civilization by me, Scott Santens. Writer and Unconditional Basic Income (UBI) advocate with a crowdfunded basic income; Board o…

May 11, 2020

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