The robots are on the rise, and they’re taking all of the jobs. Even though robots might save corporations cash, they can’t buy corporate goods. Scott Santens, joins Occupy Radio to explain how Universal Basic Income might be the next logical step.

Sisten Mary Pendergast explains the Pope Encyclical on Climate Change. What does it mean when 1.1 billion Catholics start receiving divine direction to defend the environment and protect the poor? It’s Climate Revolution, with Pope Francis.

Pilgrimage to the Tar Sands

http://www.sistersofmercy.org/blog/2015/06/15/pilgrimage-to-the-tar-sands/?utm_source=fb&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=cwm

Pope’s eco-manifesto looks like a game-changer in the US http://www.cruxnow.com/church/2015/06/19/popes-environmental-manifesto-looks-like-a-game-changer-in-the-us/?s_campaign=crux:rss?s_campaign=crux:email:ja

Scott supplied us with excellent show notes:

“One woman called to say she remembered the Mincome project. In the early 1970s, she was a single mother raising two girls on welfare – then called Mothers’ Allowance. She said she had always been treated respectfully, but there was one thing case workers said that bothered her.

“She said she wanted to get some job training. They told her to go home and take care of her kids and they would take care of her,” explained Forget.

When the opportunity to transfer from Mothers’ Allowance to Mincome came along, the woman took it. With no restrictions on how she could spend the money she was given, she signed up for training and got a part-time job at the local library which eventually became a full-time career.

“So when I talked to her, she was incredibly proud of having modeled a different kind of life for her daughters,” Forget said. The retired librarian invited Forget to visit her home. Inside, she was shown pictures from her two girls’ graduations, mother beaming with pride.”

Oh and there’s this too: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/12/30/city-eliminated-poverty-mincome_n_6392126.html

Also this is a breakdown of UBI vs NIT.

http://www.scottsantens.com/negative-income-tax-nit-and-unconditional-basic-income-ubi-what-makes-them-the-same-and-what-makes-them-different

Show note links:

http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/05/what-if-everybody-didnt-have-to-work-to-get-paid/393428/

https://medium.com/basic-income/self-driving-trucks-are-going-to-hit-us-like-a-human-driven-truck-b8507d9c5961

http://www.businessinsider.com/the-robots-are-here-to-take-jobs-2015-6

https://www.patreon.com/scottsantens

http://www.yesmagazine.org/issues/cities-are-now/in-alaska-everyone-gets-paid-thousands-in-oil-dividends-per-year

http://www.uvm.edu/giee/pubpdfs/Flomenhoft_2012_Exploring_the_Alaska_Model.pdf

https://medium.com/basic-income/universal-basic-income-as-the-social-vaccine-of-the-21st-century-d66dff39073 ($1 saves $3 to $9)

https://medium.com/working-life/why-should-we-support-the-idea-of-an-unconditional-basic-income-8a2680c73dd3

http://www.scottsantens.com/reddit-robots-and-resources-why-I-got-into-the-idea-of-basic-income-and-how-we-can-go-about-implementing-it

http://www.scottsantens.com/will-replacing-current-benefits-with-cash-tomorrow-leave-todays-recipients-better-or-worse-off-basic-income-single-parents-welfare

http://qz.com/422428/help-the-poor-and-jumpstart-the-economy-by-changing-the-way-the-us-collects-tax/ (VAT)

http://www.gatesnotes.com/Books/Why-Inequality-Matters-Capital-in-21st-Century-Review (Bill Gates on consumption tax)

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