UBI and a vision of peer production of the public health and a happier society

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This month we will welcome Katarzyna Gajewska, PhD, who will present "Basic income and a vision of peer production of the public health and a happier society: inspiration for grassroots organizing."

UBI can free energy to engage in preventive approach to health and thus a better use of resources changing the paradigm in which health is thought about and produced nowadays. Also the challenge of de-commodifying lives of those living solely on a UBI is a crucial aspect of this reform. The talk will be an invitation to imagine new organizational structures to promote health. Dreaming, imagining, studying alternatives, experimenting, and thinking outside of the beaten path in the domain of work organization and basic needs organization is an important step towards a UBI society. Cryptocurrencies can catalyze and facilitate these processes.

Katarzyna Gajewska, PhD, is an independent scholar and futurist writer . She has been publishing on alternative economy, non-digital peer production, food and health, universal basic income and collective autonomy since 2013 and is mainly interested in psychological and emotional aspects of transition to a postcapitalist society. This month's talk will be based the presenter's work, "Future of work in basic income and post-employment system: scenario of peer production of the public health and a happier society."

As always, we will open with short review of UBI in recent news, and the main presentation will be followed by discussion.

Conference Paper for 17th BIEN Congress: Implementing a Basic Income, Lisbon, 25-27 September 2017. http://www.rendimentobasico.pt/files/6215/0547/3667/Gajewska_Lisbon_paper_2017.pdf