Basic income’s appeal today is similar to its roots in 18th-century England – it’s a way to compensate people for a common good taken for private gain Today’s basic income proponents say cash payments would be good for everyone. In the 1790s, the idea’s inventor argued something else: It was owed to everyone.

The first basic income proposals in the 1790s grew out of resistance to enclosure, were inspired by reports of Indigenous American resource distribution, and can tell us a lot about the mind-boggling theft behind AI

My piece today in The Conversation:

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