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  • First up is a discussion about

  • universal basic income. Please

  • welcome up the CEO of HandUp,

  • Rose Broome.

  • Hi everyone. Buy now, most of

  • you have probably heard about

  • the universal basic income. It's

  • a social safety net that gives

  • everyone a payment that covers

  • their basic cost of living. The

  • basic income has had support on

  • the left and the right. Martin

  • Luther King believed that it

  • would help end poverty.

  • Conservative economist Milton

  • Friedman like it because he

  • thought it would cut down on

  • government bureaucracy and

  • promote freedom. That was 50

  • years ago. Now everyone's

  • talking about because the robots

  • are coming. I'm guilty of this,

  • too. While it's true that the

  • nature of work is changing,

  • historically, technology and

  • automation have actually created

  • more jobs. That gets us to the

  • big question, could the basic

  • income actually happen in the US?

  • I think so. I'm going to outline

  • the three main steps that I

  • think we need to take to get

  • there. The first is that we need

  • to accept that poverty is here

  • now. We need to start now. We

  • don't need to wait for self-

  • driving cars. 50 million

  • Americans live below the poverty

  • line. It's already affecting our

  • political stability. I see this

  • up close in my own work. I'm the

  • CEO of a tech startup called

  • HandUp that lets you donate

  • money directly to people who are

  • experiencing homelessness and

  • poverty. We work with people

  • like Julianne who became

  • homeless for the first time when

  • she was seven months pregnant.

  • She used HandUp at first to help

  • pay for her food, for her baby

  • and supplies. Now she uses it to

  • help pay for school. She's

  • studying accounting. With the

  • basic income, Julianne would

  • have these basic needs met. Of

  • course, she can turn to our

  • existing social safety nets, but

  • it's a mess. We have over 80

  • programs that cost a trillion

  • dollars a year. Which of these

  • programs should we cut? Which

  • should we keep? How would we pay

  • for our basic income? I think

  • these are really interesting

  • questions. Unless you're a

  • policy wonk, I think spending

  • too much time on these questions

  • can be a big distraction.

  • Instead, I think we need to

  • start small, step two. Great

  • examples of these are Y

  • Combinator that's launching a

  • pilot of the basic income in

  • Oakland and the universal income

  • project that host meet ups and

  • hackathons that help get the

  • word out. We need to support

  • efforts like these and create

  • more. Another example is

  • starting small is looking at

  • existing programs, like in

  • Alaska where everyone gets $1,

  • 000 a year from oil revenues.

  • Social Security is another

  • example. These existing programs

  • could be grown into something

  • like a basic income. We don't

  • have to start from scratch.

  • Starting small is how Finland is

  • doing it. They just launched a

  • pilot of the basic income with 2,

  • 000 citizens who are unemployed

  • and each will get €560 a month

  • for two years. They think this

  • will create, excuse me, security

  • while also helping promote work

  • because it doesn't dis-

  • incentivize people from getting

  • a job. The third and most

  • important step is that we need

  • to build a movement with a broad

  • coalition of people in

  • organizations who will rally

  • behind the basic income, who

  • will get the word out, give

  • ignite talks about it and fight

  • for experiments and policy. A

  • movement that's inspired by a

  • new American dream where

  • everyone has the basics economic

  • security, where poverty is seen

  • not as a character flaw, but as

  • the systemic issue that we know

  • it is, a dream where everyone

  • can pursue the work that they

  • care about like teaching our

  • children and where that work is

  • valued and imbued with meaning

  • even if it doesn't pay. Where

  • everyone, regardless of their

  • background, can be an

  • entrepreneur or start a business.

  • It is so much more than an

  • answer to automation. The basic

  • income represents a paradigm

  • shift about the way we live our

  • lives. Imagine if everyone

  • around you actually was free to

  • do what they love. That's the

  • dream of the basic income that

  • will inspire a movement to make

  • it a reality. Only a crisis

  • produces real change. When that

  • crisis occurs, the actions that

  • are taken depend on the ideas

  • that are lying around. Just a

  • few months ago, Obama said that

  • over the next 10 to 20 years as

  • a nation, we will need to debate

  • the basic income. Let us start

  • now, start small and build a

  • movement so when that time comes,

  • the basic income is one of the

  • most researched and loved ideas

  • that is lying around. This is

  • some of my work. I hope you'll

  • check it out and join us.

  • Thank you.

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