About The Guest

Hilde is the Vice-Chair Basic Income Earth Network, Co-founder of Mission Possible 2030, Board member of Basic Income The Netherlands, and a TEDx speaker with her speech – Building commons on the blockchain. 

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/hildelatour/

Basic Income Earth Network: https://basicincome.org/

BIEN Online Congress: https://basicincome.org/bien-congress-2021/

About The Episode

If you’ve been listening to the podcast for a while you’ll have heard of Universal basic income or UBI mentioned a number of times. Before Covid, UBI was almost always associated with fears of technological unemployment and offered as perhaps the number 1 solution for this scenario, and for this reason has been the subject of a lot of discussion, debate, and programmes to trial it out. On today’s episode I am joined by Hilde Latour of the Basic Income Earth Network, to talk about this super interesting and increasingly relevant topic. 

We talk about the arguments for and against UBI, the impact that Covid has had, as well as the numerous pilot studies that have happened across the world and what we can learn from them.