Livable4all
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A practical shift to a livable-for-all economy is possible. Book: Economic Offramp-How a Guaranteed Livable Income Can Get Us Off the Road to Destruction and Onto a Livable Future (via 3pennypublishing.com - free ebooks available) West Coast Canada
November 20, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Post-capitialism depends
on its ability to hitch itself onto the natural desire
of people not to feel desperate while defining pessimism
as a socially harmful personal deficiency.
How Will Capitalism End?
by Wolfgang Streeck, 2017, Verso Books
on its ability to hitch itself onto the natural desire
of people not to feel desperate while defining pessimism
as a socially harmful personal deficiency.
How Will Capitalism End?
by Wolfgang Streeck, 2017, Verso Books
November 19, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Post-capitialism depends
on its ability to hitch itself onto the natural desire
of people not to feel desperate while defining pessimism
as a socially harmful personal deficiency.
How Will Capitalism End?
by Wolfgang Streeck, 2017, Verso Books
on its ability to hitch itself onto the natural desire
of people not to feel desperate while defining pessimism
as a socially harmful personal deficiency.
How Will Capitalism End?
by Wolfgang Streeck, 2017, Verso Books
A Guaranteed Livable Income is the fastest and least disruptive way we can shift from a catastrophic, growth-obsessed #economy to a livable future. #guaranteedlivableincome #basicincome #UBI #GLI #livable #livable4all #environment #degrowth #consumption #economicofframp
November 17, 2025 at 4:47 PM
A Guaranteed Livable Income is the fastest and least disruptive way we can shift from a catastrophic, growth-obsessed #economy to a livable future. #guaranteedlivableincome #basicincome #UBI #GLI #livable #livable4all #environment #degrowth #consumption #economicofframp
"Motivating non-owners to work hard in the interest of the owners - requires artful devices - sticks and carrots of the most diverse sorts … that have to be continuously reinvented…" Wolfgang Streeck,
How Will Capitalism End? 2017, Verso Books pumpjackpress.com/book-reviews...
How Will Capitalism End? 2017, Verso Books pumpjackpress.com/book-reviews...
November 17, 2025 at 4:43 PM
"Motivating non-owners to work hard in the interest of the owners - requires artful devices - sticks and carrots of the most diverse sorts … that have to be continuously reinvented…" Wolfgang Streeck,
How Will Capitalism End? 2017, Verso Books pumpjackpress.com/book-reviews...
How Will Capitalism End? 2017, Verso Books pumpjackpress.com/book-reviews...
Most books about basic income / Guaranteed Livable Income are written by academics. This one is not, and it is free on Apple Books and Leanpub.
November 12, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Most books about basic income / Guaranteed Livable Income are written by academics. This one is not, and it is free on Apple Books and Leanpub.
"There’s no way toward a sustainable future without tackling environmentalism’s old stumbling blocks: consumption and jobs. And the way to do that is through a universal basic income." Alyssa Battistoni. Jacobin Magazine, 2014
November 9, 2025 at 5:20 PM
"There’s no way toward a sustainable future without tackling environmentalism’s old stumbling blocks: consumption and jobs. And the way to do that is through a universal basic income." Alyssa Battistoni. Jacobin Magazine, 2014
Guaranteed Livable Income is the offramp to a livable future.
November 9, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Guaranteed Livable Income is the offramp to a livable future.
Bertrand Russell, In Praise of Idleness, 1932
November 9, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Bertrand Russell, In Praise of Idleness, 1932
Economic Offramp ebook is still free on Apple Books and sliding scale (0-whatever) on Leanpub. Go to 3PennyPublishing.com and follow the links.
November 6, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Economic Offramp ebook is still free on Apple Books and sliding scale (0-whatever) on Leanpub. Go to 3PennyPublishing.com and follow the links.
"If we, as a society, try to respond to societal problems with individual solutions, then our societies will collapse as soon as they encounter a societal problem.“ (at min.58) Gary Stevenson on Prof G podcast (April 10, 2025)
September 26, 2025 at 5:18 PM
"If we, as a society, try to respond to societal problems with individual solutions, then our societies will collapse as soon as they encounter a societal problem.“ (at min.58) Gary Stevenson on Prof G podcast (April 10, 2025)
POVERTY is an UPSTREAM problem that causes massive DOWNSTREAM problems. A Guaranteed Livable Income is the Economic Offramp from destruction to a livable future. #UBI #GLI #livable4all #basicincome #futureofwork #unemployment #poverty 3pennypublishing.com/economic-off...
September 26, 2025 at 5:05 PM
POVERTY is an UPSTREAM problem that causes massive DOWNSTREAM problems. A Guaranteed Livable Income is the Economic Offramp from destruction to a livable future. #UBI #GLI #livable4all #basicincome #futureofwork #unemployment #poverty 3pennypublishing.com/economic-off...
POVERTY is an UPSTREAM problem that causes massive DOWNSTREAM problems. A Guaranteed Livable Income is the Economic Offramp from destruction to a livable future. 3pennypublishing.com/economic-off...
September 12, 2025 at 5:28 PM
POVERTY is an UPSTREAM problem that causes massive DOWNSTREAM problems. A Guaranteed Livable Income is the Economic Offramp from destruction to a livable future. 3pennypublishing.com/economic-off...
Robert Theobald: UBI, basic income, guaranteed annual income history, 1966 and the failure to understand poverty in a cybernated era, computers, and advanced machinery #automation #futureofwork #futureofjobs #unemployment
September 12, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Robert Theobald: UBI, basic income, guaranteed annual income history, 1966 and the failure to understand poverty in a cybernated era, computers, and advanced machinery #automation #futureofwork #futureofjobs #unemployment
UBI basic income guaranteed annual income history from 1988 in the Utne Reader. Reasons? automation displacing jobs, environment, and community rebuilding.
September 9, 2025 at 3:51 PM
UBI basic income guaranteed annual income history from 1988 in the Utne Reader. Reasons? automation displacing jobs, environment, and community rebuilding.
GDP is a lethally flawed way to measure a country's well-being.
August 9, 2025 at 4:23 PM
GDP is a lethally flawed way to measure a country's well-being.
We should be cheering about how many repetitive, boring, injurious, or soul-sucking jobs will be able to be done by machines. With a guaranteed livable income, we could be. #GLI #UBI #basicincome #livable4all
August 8, 2025 at 3:45 PM
We should be cheering about how many repetitive, boring, injurious, or soul-sucking jobs will be able to be done by machines. With a guaranteed livable income, we could be. #GLI #UBI #basicincome #livable4all
Poverty has the highest costs/harms of any economic policy. It affects everyone. Badly. However insulated from poverty you may be, when other people’s lives get worse, everyone’s lives get worse. A #UBI #GLI is an offramp to a #livable4all future.
August 8, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Poverty has the highest costs/harms of any economic policy. It affects everyone. Badly. However insulated from poverty you may be, when other people’s lives get worse, everyone’s lives get worse. A #UBI #GLI is an offramp to a #livable4all future.
August 8, 2025 at 3:44 PM
#quote “How do you get people’s attention? This becomes the real commodity. At present, there is an incentive … – to create more and more sensational stories, irrespective of truth or relevance.” —Yuval Noah Harari, interview in The Guardian, August 5, 2018.
July 17, 2025 at 3:50 PM
#quote “How do you get people’s attention? This becomes the real commodity. At present, there is an incentive … – to create more and more sensational stories, irrespective of truth or relevance.” —Yuval Noah Harari, interview in The Guardian, August 5, 2018.
...leads to less support for public services or social programs. Worse, it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy as people think, “If everyone is horrible and corrupt, why should I be good?” (2/2)
(From Ch.20. Noxious vs. Nourishing Media, Economic Offramp)
(From Ch.20. Noxious vs. Nourishing Media, Economic Offramp)
July 17, 2025 at 3:47 PM
...leads to less support for public services or social programs. Worse, it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy as people think, “If everyone is horrible and corrupt, why should I be good?” (2/2)
(From Ch.20. Noxious vs. Nourishing Media, Economic Offramp)
(From Ch.20. Noxious vs. Nourishing Media, Economic Offramp)
#UBI #GLI #livable4all #universalbasicincome #guaranteedlivableincome instead of #jobism (Jobism is. a belief that jobs are the solution to all social/ economic problems.) Jobism is the past. UBI/GLI is the future.
July 16, 2025 at 4:46 PM
#UBI #GLI #livable4all #universalbasicincome #guaranteedlivableincome instead of #jobism (Jobism is. a belief that jobs are the solution to all social/ economic problems.) Jobism is the past. UBI/GLI is the future.
Our outdated ideas about work are destroying the very livability of our planet. Why we need a #UBI #GLI #livable4all #basicincome. It should have happened in the 1960s when ppl could see how urgent it was then. But, apparently, when #MLK asked "chaos or community?" people said, "ummm, chaos?"
July 10, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Our outdated ideas about work are destroying the very livability of our planet. Why we need a #UBI #GLI #livable4all #basicincome. It should have happened in the 1960s when ppl could see how urgent it was then. But, apparently, when #MLK asked "chaos or community?" people said, "ummm, chaos?"
All over the world, people do work, no matter how harmful, no matter how much they hate it, simply because they feel they have no choice. #UBI #gli #livable4all #basicincome #jobism #jobismsucks
July 9, 2025 at 5:18 PM
All over the world, people do work, no matter how harmful, no matter how much they hate it, simply because they feel they have no choice. #UBI #gli #livable4all #basicincome #jobism #jobismsucks
Activities that harm our environment are driven by ECONOMICS.
With a guaranteed livable income/basic income, humanity will be able to DECREASE harmful activities and INCREASE beneficial ones.
With a guaranteed livable income/basic income, humanity will be able to DECREASE harmful activities and INCREASE beneficial ones.
July 7, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Activities that harm our environment are driven by ECONOMICS.
With a guaranteed livable income/basic income, humanity will be able to DECREASE harmful activities and INCREASE beneficial ones.
With a guaranteed livable income/basic income, humanity will be able to DECREASE harmful activities and INCREASE beneficial ones.
A 2002 fiction/humour book asks the question: what would happen to our economy if everyone were happy? Will Ferguson writes: "Our entire economy is built on human weaknesses, on bad habits and insecurities."
June 26, 2025 at 5:35 PM
A 2002 fiction/humour book asks the question: what would happen to our economy if everyone were happy? Will Ferguson writes: "Our entire economy is built on human weaknesses, on bad habits and insecurities."