In 2018, the impossible has become reality. Cars are driving themselves, Apple is worth more than a trillion dollars and Donald Trump is president.  While these may at first seem unrelated, they tell the story of how our country has veered into a dystopian nightmare, and how, if we act

A new podcast is asking people ‘what would you do if you were given a basic income’, ie if you didn’t HAVE to work?  The project by upstreampodcast explores that question by asking people they find all over the bay area, including economic experts and basic income recipients.  In upstream’s words:

We at Broke-Ass Stuart are always keeping our eyes open for weird and wonderful things in the Bay Area.  This city’s mystique was built and maintained by cultural outliers, by innovative artist and engineers, and by new and strange ideas.  The idea of a universal basic income isn’t new to the