Rok Kranjc

Rok Kranzc is a graduate student at Utrecht University, where his focus is on Geosciences and Sustainable Development. Rok wrote his BA Thesis on “Considerations of Sociological Utopia.”

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Basic Income in the ‘Long Now’: Three Critical Considerations for the Future(s) of Alternative Welfare Systems

In the following I outline three critical areas that in my opinion can further the UBI debate, guided by the overarching question of what might an open ended, ecologically sound and socially just welfare system and pathway towards it look like.

December 4, 2018

Basic Income in the ‘Long Now’: Three Critical Considerations for the Future(s) of Alternative Welfare Systems

Many of today’s proposals for and experiments with Universal Basic Income (UBI) in so-called developed countries seem to be congruent with, and indeed in some instances explicitly catered towards maintaining the dominant political economic architecture and status quo imaginary.

February 14, 2018