My favorite thing about the new decade is that it offers an opportunity to practice long-term thinking. I’m aware that the effect is purely psychological. What matters is, that it works! So let’s put the weekly, monthly, quarterly and yearly rhythms aside, and focus on decades for a change. Review of the 2010s Tech is…
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Basic Income Referendum Switzerland
Today is a historic day: Switzerland is the first country in the world to have held a national Basic Income referendum. In the Cantons Basel-City, Geneva and Jura more than 35% of the people voted Yes. I am very proud to be a Basel-City citizen and to be part of the #1 canton with 36.0%…
Ich sage JA zum bedingungslosen Grundeinkommen
This is a post in German about the 2016 Basic income referendum in Switzerland: Nicht, weil ich denke dass die Zeit reif dafür ist. Sondern weil ich überzeugt bin, dass es nur eine Frage der Zeit ist, bis ein solches Welt- und Menschenbild zur neuen Normalität wird. Weg von einem Gefühl des Mangels und des…
Thoughts on Universal Basic Income
When I first heard about the idea of a Universal Basic Income (Bedingungsloses Grundeinkommen) from a buddhist monk in 2010 I was very sceptical. A spontaneous prejudice, without knowing a thing about it. Now probably for the first time in my life I started to really dig into a political initiative to form my own…