Do you believe in basic income? NEAT. You should write a speculative fiction short story about basic income. If you do that really well, you will be awarded with a BASIC INCOME. We're not kidding, and you should totally enter this contest (and then give us a cut on Patreon, obviously.)

CHECK IT OUT: https://medium.com/economicsecproj/into-the-black-a-short-fiction-contest-with-a-big-prize-f91cd6553967

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We're talking about this short story competition, some other UBI related news in general, and also catching up on a really bad month during which we were off the air--from the Vegas shooting, to the Harvey Weinstein scandal, to the President of the US Virgin Islands having a public existential crisis (or you know, just being really ignorant).

All that and more on FUTURE LEFT PODCAST!

READING LIST:

https://www.city-journal.org/html/post-work-wont-work-15383.html

https://qz.com/1024938/ubi-is-just-a-bedtime-story-elon-musk-tells-himself-to-help-the-super-wealthy-sleep/

https://www.sppa.udel.edu/bideninstitute/research-policy/biden-institute-blog/Let%E2%80%99s-Choose-a-Future-That-Puts-Work-First

http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/09/23/joe-biden-president-2020-anti-populism-215638

http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/41997-why-we-need-a-universal-basic-income