Building a Better Future: The Universal Basic Income Solution

Forward

Humanity Forward Productions

Society & Culture

4.8 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 8 July 2024

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Conrad Shaw and Scott Santens, founders of the Income To Support All Foundation (ITSA), share their journey in supporting various UBI initiatives, highlighting personal stories and the challenges faced, particularly during the COVID-19 pandemic. Does the U.S. economy generate enough wealth per capita to eradicate poverty through UBI? What happened to the Child Tax Credit, which had cut childhood poverty in half? Understanding UBI's benefits comes from experiencing it firsthand, contrasting it with welfare programs, and anticipating the massive economic shifts that Artificial Intelligence will affect in both white and blue collar jobs. Explore Conrad and Scott's experiences in creating the Bootstraps documentary series, which chronicles families receiving UBI and showcases its positive impacts over several years. Lastly, learn about Comingle, a mutual aid platform where community members support each other financially based on weekly income fluctuations. Watch this episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/N-7zQ2gZI8A Follow Conrad Shaw: https://twitter.com/oneconradshaw | https://www.comingle.us/ Follow Scott Santens: https://twitter.com/scottsantens | https://www.instagram.com/scottsantens Follow Andrew Yang: https://twitter.com/andrewyang | https://andrewyang.com Get 50% off Factor at https://factormeals.com/yang50 Get an extra 3 months free at https://expressvpn.com/yang Get 20% off + 2 free pillows at https://helixsleep.com/yang code helixpartner20 ---- Subscribe to Forward: Apple — https://podcasts.apple.com/podcast/id1508035243 Spotify — https://open.spotify.com/show/25cFfnG3lGuypTerKDxKia To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	This week on Forward.
0:03.0	All of our work is sort of the theory of change is experiential,
0:07.0	so the documentary is about experiencing people getting basic income.
0:10.0	The platform is about experiencing how it actually works.
0:13.2	It's very, very hard to teach financial planning to someone who has no money.
0:16.2	It's similar with UBI.
0:17.8	It's like, well, you know, here's how it works and as soon as someone actually experiences
0:21.9	it, to your point, Conrad Conrad then it's a very different
0:24.4	they immediately confuse it with welfare and like or it'll be go it'll be an excuse for the
0:29.0	government to control you and tell you what to do it's like now you're talking about conditional welfare like that's not
0:34.4	you B.I. It is my pleasure to welcome to the podcast some old friends the UBI Jedi himself, Scott Santins, uh, and the UBI Guy, the co-creator of the
0:59.4	Bootstrap's documentary and co-mingle, Conrad Shaw, welcome Conrad and Scott Santins.
1:06.0	Conrad Shaw, Scott Santins, my guys for all things UBI.
1:11.0	So it's a pleasure to be with you both. There are some exciting
1:16.8	updates, but first give people a little bit of your personal backstories in terms of how you came to believe so strongly in UBI.
1:26.9	And I feel like everyone knows you, Scott.
1:28.4	So Conrad, lead us off.
1:31.9	It was 2016 and I was in New York doing, I had left engineering to be, to pursue acting, screen
1:38.8	writing, stuff like that. So I was waiting tables and stuff.
1:43.6	And I had met my now wife, Day.
1:45.6	I was a documentarian.
1:47.8	And she had asked me if I wanted to produce
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