Scott Santens on UBI vs Stimulus Checks
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Nathan Latka
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🗓️ 20 May 2020
⏱️ 75 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, everyone. My guest today is Scott Santans. And the reason I want to get him on the show is there's so much talk with the virus happening. |
| 0:06.9 | But, Frank, there's been a lot of talk about this for a long time related to an unconditional basic income UBI. |
| 0:14.1 | Scott's written extensively on this topic. He's an advocate with a crowdfunded basic income currently. |
| 0:19.4 | Those are board of directors that fund for humanity. And the senior policy advisor for Mike, who is running, he's a UBI advocate, running for |
| 0:27.4 | the Senate seat in Kentucky that is currently held by Mitch McConnell. Scott, you ready to jump in |
| 0:32.6 | and chat about this stuff? Yeah, yeah. And that's Mike Breyer, too, in case you were curious. |
| 0:37.3 | Mike Brewer, spell the, and I was going to say, spell the last name for us. |
| 0:40.6 | It's a B-R-O-I-H-I-E-R-R-R-R-R-R-R- And what are you excited about? |
| 0:46.5 | I mean, you're in, again, you're in New Orleans. |
| 0:48.3 | He's running in Kentucky. |
| 0:49.3 | What's the connection? He is, his son, was part of the Yang gang and introduced him to the idea of basic income through Yang's campaign. |
| 1:00.8 | And he, Mike read Yang's book. |
| 1:04.5 | And after reading that, he really, you know, understood how important the idea of basic income is. |
| 1:10.4 | So he decided to make it a, |
| 1:11.9 | a major part of his campaign. |
| 1:14.5 | It was actually already running on a campaign of economic and social justice. |
| 1:18.9 | So it really just fit. |
| 1:21.3 | What got you, |
| 1:22.1 | let's backtrack a bit. |
| 1:23.6 | And then I want to jump into, |
| 1:24.9 | to, you know, |
| 1:25.4 | news from today, |
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