mastodon 4.7.3Writer and Unconditional Universal #BasicIncome (UBI) advocate with a crowdfunded monthly basic income | Author of Let There Be Money | Editor of UBI Today | Founder and President of ITSAfoundation.org
UBI is a human right. It became one the moment public land became private property. If you only get something in compensation for that loss if your income is low, your right is infringed. If you only get certain approved services, your right is still infringed.
A right is UNIVERSAL + UNCONDITIONAL
https://www.scottsantens.com/the-spaceballs-argument-for-unconditional-universal-basic-income-ubi/
I've made this argument repeatedly, but I felt the need to try and make it definitively this time. Yes, universal basic income should be universal by even including billionaires like Elon. Here are all the reasons why universality is superior to means testing.
https://scottsantens.substack.com/p/the-universality-argument-for-basic-income-ubi #UBI
This was a fun one for me to write. It's the Angine de Poitrine argument for universal basic income. We could have more weird, awesome, truly human stuff like this if we all had UBI. We could have more Einsteins too. And because those things are true, the cost of NOT doing #UBI isn't worth it.
Preliminary results from the Denver Basic Income Project that's providing cash to hundreds of unhoused people for one year, using the first 6 months of data:
• NO ONE receiving $1,000/mo still sleeping outside
• Full-time employment increased
• Fewer visits to the ER
• Fewer nights spent in jail
• Reduced use of social and public services
Read the full report: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1gqtOfZG2sSanWgUdzn-lx-pwSXZKabj-/view?pli=1
We constructed poverty as we know it. Poverty is a legal status imposed on those excluded from legal access to the needs of life. It is economic injustice. It is a weapon built to fear.
Poverty is a Death Star.
Happy Star Wars Day and May the 4th be with UBI!
We should have started a universal basic income back in 1975, and it should have grown this entire time in line with national productivity growth. My latest:
https://ieet.substack.com/p/universal-basic-income-the-dividend?triedRedirect=true #UBI
Myth: Universal Basic Income is a magnet for the idle. In reality, it's the catalyst for unleashed potential. Visualize a world where your next meal isn't your next worry. That world is one giant leap closer to solving the puzzles of poverty and unleashing collective brilliance.
We don't know what impact AI will have on productivity in our immediate future but Universal Basic Income (UBI) is the only way to share AI and productivity gains with EVERYONE, and it needs to be everyone because we all trained it with our data/work and funded its development with public dollars.
https://scottsantens.substack.com/p/universal-basic-income-is-your-productivity
"Every human deserves the basic security to live a good life, and to have a safe floor from which to launch themselves as high as they wish to go, free from drudgery and lack."
Quote by a signer of the AI Pledge for Humanity in support of universal basic income
https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/the-ai-pledge-for-humanity #UBI
It's Tax Day so it's time to dive into why Democrats should not be pushing for a larger standard deduction and should instead be pushing to replace it with a fully refundable $4,500 standard credit that can be received monthly (a small $375/mo #UBI) in advance like the 2021 expanded child tax credit.
Concerned about fertility rates and want more people to have more kids? This ain't rocket science. Make kids more affordable to have. Do a universal basic income that includes kids. Do universal healthcare. Do universal childcare. Also, just do more in general to make the future look bright vs dim.
https://youtube.com/shorts/1eI4TR8AS-8?si=gWwKWKx_4Wx71xxj
Link to full episode:
https://youtu.be/zdakSyxu75w?si=U1UFP2GxvG8lip9E
Link to cited article:
https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2020/2/7/21125303/alaska-basic-income-birth-rate-fertility
