Money for everything? Universal basic income in a crisis

Money isn’t everything

For most of my working life, the Japanese scientific community has struggled with less than satisfactory funding. Most of us have had to conduct science in filthy labs with an incredibly limited budget. Many have suggested that this is a major reason that the number of Nobel prizes awarded to Japan is so low. Although this is surely an oversimplification, it is interesting that our only Nobel l...

Welfare Without Taxation - Autonomous production revenues for Universal Basic Income

In the face of shifting means of production from manual human labor to labor automation, one solution that stands out is the advancement of a Universal Basic Income, UBI to every citizen from the government with no strings attached. The proposal, however, has encountered sharp criticism from different quarters questioning the morality behind sourcing of funds, largely through taxation, to uphol...

Universal basic income as a preferential social dividend a proposal for the Colombian case

This paper proposes creating a Citizen’s Universal Fund (CUF) (Fondo Universal Ciudadano, FUC), an enterprise having social patrimony, to which each Colombian would be associated through acquiring a share promising to pay her a perpetual income (after holding the share for 20 years), which we shall call the Preferential Social Dividend (PSD), (Dividendo Social Preferencial, DSP). The proposal i...

Mani and shapur a universal faith for e universal kingdom

passivity in waiting for godot and endgame: a psychoanalytic reading

this study intends to investigate samuel beckett’s waiting for godot and endgame under the lacanian psychoanalysis. it begins by explaining the most important concepts of lacanian psychoanalysis. the beckettian characters are studied regarding their state of unconscious, and not the state of consciousness as is common in most beckett studies. according to lacan, language plays the sole role in ...