Funding for Open Source Projects: Is a Universal Basic Income the Solution?
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Argues that universal basic income (UBI) shifts motivation from survival to purposive work, citing behavioral research where pay fails for creative, high‑cognition tasks and invoking the cognition tax that scarcity imposes. Claims UBI gives existential breathing room that raises human capital, helps scale open‑source contribution as durable infrastructure, and could be funded partly by replacing means‑tested programs; notes surprising cross‑ideological support (Milton Friedman’s negative income tax).
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chapters (10)
- 0:00Intro
- 1:58Basic structure
- 2:48What is UBI?
- 6:18Justifications
- 14:33Practical justification
- 18:45Incentives
- 22:53Back to UBI
- 26:33Why does OSS matter here?
- 34:05Criticisms
- 38:38Thesis
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