About

This is an independent site for public argument. It is not affiliated with any European institution, any political party, or the organisations promoting the citizens' initiative discussed in these pages.

What kind of site this is

It is a site that argues a case: that the European Union should introduce an unconditional basic income, and that the transformation of work by artificial intelligence makes the question urgent.

We say so openly, because pretending to be neutral when you are not is the commonest form of dishonesty in public writing. Arguing a case does not license careless handling of facts.

The rules we have set ourselves

• No figure without a source. If a number cannot be verified, it is not published. We would rather have a thinner article than a more persuasive false one.
• Objections in their strongest form. Building straw men is easy and useless: it convinces only the already convinced.
• When we do not know, we say so. On several questions — the effect on rents, the transition plan — the available answers are weak, and we write that.
• Corrections are published. If we are wrong and you tell us, the article is corrected and the correction stays visible.

How the articles are written

They are written with the assistance of artificial intelligence systems, and it seems right to say so on a site about the consequences of exactly those systems.

Every text is checked before publication and factual claims are verified against primary sources. The assistance concerns the writing, not the facts.

Contact

One address, for everything: [email protected]