Movies and TvShows featuring "universal-basic-income" theme.

Two brothers lose their jobs to automation and are given $3,000 a month in a new basic income program, allowing them to use their free time and free money to find purpose in a world where they're no longer needed.

Kuwait’s constitution says that every person has the right to a job, so in some places 20 people are employed for one person’s job. In South Korea, they work so much that a policy has been introduced to turn off computers at the end of the day so that employees can’t work any more. In the US, they give up over 500 million holiday hours each year, while Amazon’s drivers are trying to form a union. Meanwhile, robots are poised to take over most jobs and put the rest of us out of work. Work is so crucial to our identity and what we spend our waking hours on that it is barely noticed anymore. A lot has happened since a group of Puritan priests invented the concept of work ethic in the 1600s, and in the 21st century the very concept of work is in many ways disintegrating. A perfect situation for a filmmaker like Swedish mastermind Erik Gandini, who travels the world to explore what the concept of work means today – if it means anything at all.

Follows those spearheading the movement to combat inequality and poverty through the implementation of a universal basic income.%s

What is possible when we have guaranteed money to meet our basic needs? No requirements. No stipulations. No paybacks. We look to the village of Busibi to discover what’s possible when we give money directly to people. No strings attached. The answer lies in the residents’ personal stories. Their successes and tribulations illustrate the impact of one of the most daring projects in contemporary development cooperation. Their life stories unexpectedly prove to be all too familiar. They make us laugh. They move us. Blending in together, they create a colorful and poetic reality portrait, illustrating the big consequences of a small sum of money …

Inherent Good is a powerful documentary that delves deep into the concept of universal basic income and its potential to alleviate poverty and promote social justice. Through compelling interviews and real-life stories, the film highlights the transformative impact of providing a guaranteed income to all citizens. With expert insights and thought-provoking analysis, Inherent Good presents a compelling case for this revolutionary idea.

Guaranteed in Gary follows an income gift experiment in Gary, Indiana, designed to help create pathways to lift local residents out of poverty and to prove that poverty is a lack of cash, not a lack of character.