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Farmers have been asking Ottawa for basic income for a while. Now PEI oyster farmers show us why: disease has wiped out their crops, debt is mounting, and independent growers fear losing their farms to big corporations, right as Canada's food security hits a critical low.
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We deserve that share because it is our capital. We did the work that trained the AI models. Public dollars paid for the R&D. It is rightful and just to distribute a percentage of the wealth AI generates to all of us.
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The Somerville Guaranteed Basic Income pilot results are in:
People started new jobs, switched industries, moved toward full-time hours, and dropped the second job they couldn't sustain.
Cash didn't pull people out of work. It gave them room to work better.
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The most common word expressed by basic income pilot experiment participants is "breathe", as in "I felt like I could finally breathe." Think about that. A basic amount of money to afford basics is akin to oxygen. Thus, the status quo is akin to constantly strangling everyone.
That's why there are so many positive effects. Imagine an experiment that tested a control group where everyone was constantly strangled versus a treatment group that wasn't.
This is also why it's so goddamn messed up to see people argue against UBI. It's the same thing as arguing that yes, in fact it is good for people to strangle them. They need the incentive. Who would do anything if they weren't strangled?
Being strangled is FREEDOM!
I've been researching the idea of Unconditional Basic Income since 2013. Here's a list of findings I've compiled from various UBI experiments, unconditional cash transfer studies, and cash dividend research.
The data speaks for itself.
Data: reddit.com/r/BasicIncome/wik… #basicincome
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JOHN CENA DESTROYS means-testing, ENDORSES unconditional cash transfers in 2024 movie “Ricky Stanicky" 🤯
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We need land value tax funded universal basic income so everyone shares in the wealth.
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"Those who are taking from the commons, who are making profits from our commons, should compensate the commoners.
And those who are polluting the commons, diminishing our commons, should be compensating those who are suffering as a consequence." — Guy Standing
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Ireland's artist basic income paid back much of what it cost. That's why it's now permanent.
Now South Korea is following: the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism has announced plans to develop its own basic income model for artists by the end of 2026.
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The anti-datacenter movement was always going to be the inevitable response of rushing into AI adoption without first implementing unconditional basic income. Did you think people would be excited for their families to lose their incomes while survival income depends on jobs?
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Democratic Senate nominee in Texas James Talarico, pitching an AI dividend:
"If they are going to use our human ingenuity, if they're going to use our collective intellectual property, then we want our royalty checks."
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Democratic Senate nominee in Texas James Talarico, pitching an AI dividend:
"If they are going to use our human ingenuity, if they're going to use our collective intellectual property, then we want our royalty checks."
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Stockton, California, gave 125 residents $500 a month for a two-year guaranteed-income pilot. The results challenged assumptions: recipients were more likely to be employed full-time, while also reporting greater financial stability and improved well-being zurl.co/WQswD
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Basic income doesn't solve every problem but it makes every problem easier to solve.
ALT rabble.ca headline: "Basic Income and solving the polycrisis." Photo of Dr. Kendal David outdoors.
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New Zealand’s Opportunity Party is putting Universal Basic Income at the centre of its economic platform. Its proposed “citizen’s income” would provide NZ$19,400 a year to every citizen and resident aged 18+ unconditionally and replace several benefits.zurl.co/0Dzfb
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#REFORM @reformparty_uk on #bbcR4today
Britain must stop all benefits and plan for a future where human work will be very scarce
Only 2yrs before employment is a thing of the past
Cut #BirthRate and pay EVERYONE #UniversalBasicIncome from earnings of automated systems or there will be very few people with money to purchase products & services created by #automation!
#UBI + #FreeEducation are urgent & essential
#AndyBurnham #AI #NEETS #R4today
#ChatGPT Offered Me $2m To Keep Quiet:
No One Is Ready For What's Coming! youtu.be/_g4l7YkDQwA?si=lWqo…
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We should see UBI as proceeds from the gains of AI and automation.
It's how everyone benefits directly from economic progress.
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The Economist Editor-In-Chief asked Elon:
Do we need massive redistribution? Should Elon pay more tax to fund UBI?
"I think the treasury should just issue people checks."
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About that "UBI failed" claim:
forwardfuture.com/newsletter…
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The biggest threat to capitalism are those who insist that any attempt to manage the downsides of it and share the upsides is somehow communism. The Nordic nations are not communist nations. They simply give a shit about their people who comprise their mixed-market economies.
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