Essays
By Darryl Finkton Jr. on poverty, UBI, environment, and social change.
- The Consensus Trap: How AI Processes Systemic Change
How AI tools default to status quo assumptions when analyzing paradigm-shifting proposals, and why economic orthodoxy collapses under logical scrutiny.
- I Dream of Village
An essay on community and belonging.
- It Pays To End Poverty
The economic case for ending poverty.
- UBI and the Environmental Crisis
Fighting Poverty in a World of Overconsumption.
- What's the Right Amount of UBI?
Exploring the optimal level of universal basic income.
- How Do We Pay for Universal Basic Income (UBI)?
The economics and funding mechanisms for UBI.
- Economic modeling of how to end poverty in the United States while saving taxpayers trillions of dollars
PolicyEngine-based analysis showing how seed money grants can end poverty while saving taxpayers trillions.
- Using my Jesus year to End Poverty. Make Trillions.
A personal journey of using a sabbatical year to develop ideas about ending poverty.