Cafe Grundeinkommen by the Berlin Basic Income Lab

Cafe Grundeinkommen promotes Basic Income through a non-profit, tiny-house communal space, part of the Bauhaus Campus exhibition at the Bauhaus Archive, Berlin. The space is an educational outpost and hub that uses UBI cryptocurrency.

Wir setzen uns für das BGE mit unserem gemeinnützigen und kollektiv betriebenen Mini-Café “Café Grundeinkommen” ein. Als Teil der Bauhaus Campus Ausstellung im Bauhaus-Archiv, ist unser Café ein Bildungsstützpunkt und Treffpunkt für die BGE-Interessierte

Relax and read a book about basic income from our self while sipping on a cup of locally roasted, direct trade coffee. Can't make it to Berlin? Then feel the basic income vibes by listening to our mix of songs that promote the struggle for a fairer economy, sent digitally to you.

Universal Basic Income gives everyone a piece of the pie! Express your enthusiasm for the idea while you go grocery shopping and wish that you had basic income to pay for that broccoli.

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You can be sustainable, stylish, and support local Berlin businesses with a bamboo and cornstarch based coffee cup by Justswapit - the same ones that we will use at the cafe. Along with your cup, we will send 100g of coffee beans from local Berlin roastery, Populus. These beans are roasted every week, so they will arrive to you at peak brew time. (Shipping to EU and UK included, please write us for additional international shipping fees).

A Social Policy Book of 2016 examines the topic of basic income. It addresses questions such as:

Would a Basic Income system make a difference?
How could such a system be put in place?
What would it cost?
Can we afford it?
How are Basic Income proposals being advanced in other countries?

Raising the Floor confronts America's biggest economic challenge-the fundamental restructuring of the economy and the emerging disruptive technology that threaten secure jobs and income. Andy Stern convincingly shows why it is time to consider a universal basic income as the nation's twenty-first-century solution to increasing inequality.

This book examines the current state of the technologically-caused unemployed, and attempts to answer the question of how to proceed into an era beyond it. The experts collected in this work present their own novel visions of the future and offer suggestions for adapting to a more symbiotic economic relationship with AI. Ultimately, they lay out a whole new approach to economics, one in which we learn to merge with and adapt to our increasingly intelligent creations.

The idea of providing an unconditional basic income to every individual, rich or poor, active or inactive, has been advocated by such major thinkers as Thomas Paine, John Stuart Mill, and John Kenneth Galbraith. Philippe Van Parijs and Yannick Vanderborght present the most comprehensive defense of this radical idea so far, advocating it as our most realistic hope for addressing economic insecurity and social exclusion in the twenty-first century.

Debunking Economics was published back in 2001, the market economy seemed invincible. Steve Keen argued that economists deserved none of the credit for the economy's performance. That instability exploded with the financial crisis of 2007. In this expanded and updated edition, Keen builds on his scathing critique of conventional economic theory while explaining what mainstream economists cannot: why the crisis occurred, why it is proving to be intractable, and what needs to be done to end it.

The digital economy has gone wrong. Everybody knows it, but no one knows quite how to fix it, or even how to explain the problem. Douglas Rushkoff argues that it doesn’t have to be this way. In Throwing Rocks at the Google Bus, Rushkoff shows how we went wrong, why we did it, and how we can reprogram the digital economy and our businesses from the inside out to promote sustainable prosperity for pretty much everyone.

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Enjoy a cozy, homemade vegan supper with the Cafe Grundeinkommen creators one evening in the tiny house. Our space is literally limited, so the event can include up to six guests. We're happy to have you over!

Le-Mentzel is the mind behind such social-justice minded design projects as Harz IV Möbel and 100-Euro-Wohnung. He is the curator of the Bauhaus Campus itself, and has graciously offered to donate the proceeds from his next speaking engagement to the Cafe Grundeinkommen campaign. If you would like to book this inspiring speaker, contact us.