{"id":10758,"date":"2024-08-26T16:17:37","date_gmt":"2024-08-26T20:17:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greenlivinghistory.com\/?p=10758"},"modified":"2024-08-26T16:17:37","modified_gmt":"2024-08-26T20:17:37","slug":"what-if-everybody-didnt-have-to-work-to-get-paid-the-atlantic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thatgrrl.com\/site\/index.php\/2024\/what-if-everybody-didnt-have-to-work-to-get-paid-the-atlantic\/","title":{"rendered":"What If Everybody Didn&#8217;t Have to Work to Get Paid? &#8211; The Atlantic"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/business\/archive\/2015\/05\/what-if-everybody-didnt-have-to-work-to-get-paid\/393428\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/ontariofuturist.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/lead_960.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>Santens is 37 years old, and he\u2019s a leader in the basic income movement\u2014a worldwide network of thousands of advocates (26,000 on Reddit alone) who believe that governments should provide every citizen with a monthly stipend big enough to cover life\u2019s basic necessities. The idea of a basic income has been around for decades, and it once drew support from leaders as different as Martin Luther King Jr. and Richard Nixon. But rather than waiting for governments to act, Santens has started crowdfunding his own basic income of $1,000 per month. He\u2019s nearly halfway to his his goal.Santens, for his part, believes that job growth is no longer keeping pace with automation, and he sees a government-provided income as a viable remedy. \u201cIt\u2019s not just a matter of needing basic income in the future; we need it now,\u201d says Santens, who lives in New Orleans. \u201cPeople don\u2019t see it, but we are already seeing the effects all around us, in the jobs and pay we take, the hours we accept, the extremes inequality is reaching, and in the loss of consumer spending power.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/business\/archive\/2015\/05\/what-if-everybody-didnt-have-to-work-to-get-paid\/393428\/\">What If Everybody Didn&#8217;t Have to Work to Get Paid? &#8211; The Atlantic<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"https:\/\/thatgrrl.com\/site\/index.php\/2024\/what-if-everybody-didnt-have-to-work-to-get-paid-the-atlantic\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to What If Everybody Didn&#8217;t Have to Work to Get Paid? &#8211; The Atlantic\"><p>Santens is 37 years old, and he\u2019s a leader in the basic income movement\u2014a worldwide network of thousands of advocates (26,000 on Reddit alone) who believe that governments should provide every citizen with a monthly stipend big enough to cover life\u2019s basic necessities. The idea of a basic income has been around for decades, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[459],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thatgrrl.com\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10758"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thatgrrl.com\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thatgrrl.com\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thatgrrl.com\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thatgrrl.com\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10758"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thatgrrl.com\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10758\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76891,"href":"https:\/\/thatgrrl.com\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10758\/revisions\/76891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thatgrrl.com\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thatgrrl.com\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thatgrrl.com\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}