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Brockville, Ontario, Canada
Joined March 2008
"AI is becoming an enormous disruption. At the present, to receive income support, vulnerable people have to jump through many hoops via official policy that governments put in their way to limit payments, and any "infringement" of those policies means that they are cut off from support. A UBI, which this will help pay for, will provide a measure of security to all of us, without the demeaning process of having to jump through hoops to achieve it. Study after study has shown that when a UBI is introduced, lives are vastly improved."
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“As so many of the the commons were seized and fenced off long ago, and with the current assimilation of the data of our entire global civilization now used to birth and train an emerging artificial workforce (unlike anything previously encountered by humanity), it is time we start taking a good look at how resources could start to flow back to fund a guaranteed solid economic floor for everyone."
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OpenAI is calling for a Public Wealth Fund UBI so that everyone, not just investors, owns a piece of the AI future. This is now mainstream policy, backed by successful examples like Alaska.
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UBI—like Social Security—isn't about creating dependency; it's about ending it. It gives people the leverage to negotiate better wages and better conditions. It turns the labor market from a coercive "choice" into an actual choice. That's the freedom we should be fighting for.
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I got Old Choppy cleaned & oiled. He's ready to start giving haircuts
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Everything you see today on X will be forgotten. Getting emotional over tweets and opinions is pointless and honestly unhealthy. The only thing that actually matters right now is making sure you don’t die before 2030. Because if you make it, you’ll witness a post scarcity world, far beyond anything shown in Star Trek. We’ll have abundance, automated everything, and intelligence that makes today’s technology look prehistoric. Most people are stressing about internet arguments while we’re standing at the edge of the biggest transition in human history. Survive this decade, and the rest will be legendary. We’re going to explore the galaxy.
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Replying to @elonmusk
We could have eliminated poverty with Universal Basic Income decades ago. We could do it right now. We just don't because of the nonsense beliefs people hold that isn't supported by the evidence. UBI works and it works RIGHT NOW. We can do it right now. xitter.cf/scottsantens/status/10…
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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AI is doubling in intelligence & capabilities every 6 months. Even if this rate does not accelerate further, that implies models that are 1000 times more capable/intelligent in 5 years. More realistically, the doubling interval will shorten, leading to 10,000-100,000x increase!
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btrower retweeted
if u still ride for pierre polievere ur just a retard bro
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Obamacare is NOT universal healthcare. It’s a for-profit insurance plan that was & still is a victory for the big insurance companies not the people. The Democrats are still peddling for-profit insurance instead of fighting for nationalized healthcare. That’s the real story here.
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Replying to @SenAngusKing
You fell for the con Again Democratic voters handed you all a HUGE victory, and you threw it away Republicans have not negotiated in good faith in DECADES, but you know that Bless your heart part of Project 2025 is your favorite? History will mock you Pathetic. Deplorable.
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Replying to @acoyne
A great reminder of what a dick he is.
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Universal Basic Income is automatic, unconditional, paperwork-free insurance we can actually use. It's always there—before, during, and after uncontrollable shocks occur. It's a non-withdrawable stable floor for a stable society. Want certainty? UBI delivers it; same amount, same date, every month.
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Start demanding nationalized healthcare, basic income, jobs guarantee, housing for all & a new economic system based on collective ownership. Fight for everything & we may get something. Fight for watered down moderate reforms & we get the capitalist oligarchy we have right now.
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When UBI gets implemented I know there's a good chance I'll pay more in new taxes than receive in UBI and I definitely will as part of Comingle so I've now begun donating that % of my income to advancing UBI. If you support UBI, please consider joining me scottsantens.com/its-time-to…
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Replying to @AdamKinzinger
Donald Trump stands as the most willfully ignorant, profoundly corrupt, and institutionally unfit president in U.S. history, a man whose continued presence in power endangers not just domestic governance but global democratic stability. His actions have emboldened authoritarian regimes, undermined international alliances, and degraded the rule of law at home. For the sake of constitutional integrity, national security, and America’s standing in the world, he must be impeached, constitutionally removed from office, and prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. Delay is no longer an option.
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btrower retweeted
I have gender neutral bathrooms in my home. Always have. Anyone else or is it just me.
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