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@bc02e0a6c0f01ad9cb57a2b0f8ef8241bc5ff979ce4452ce9e243de457756725 I agree with your that having #UniversalBasicIncome trials cut short is disappointing. This happens less often than it appears though.

A good point to start reading about Universal Basic Income pilots is:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universa

I also like the website dedicated to #UBI pilots:
basicincomepilots.com/

en.wikipedia.orgUniversal basic income pilots - Wikipedia
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@Geoffberner @hamishb @SnowshadowII @AlisonCreekside @KimberlyN Money is the root of all evil. #capitalists in the last 10-15 years tried to say that it’s undemocratic to support socialism and equated it to communism. Any further argument for socialist policies to protect the vulnerable was an attack on #democracy. What bs. This is why I fundamentally and unreservedly support #UBI. I think of it as our reversal from trickle down economics.

I can't understand how christianity came up with the obviously false claim that people's lives don't have value unless they're making money for some corporation.

Predatory capitalism is a sin, not a virtue.

And like the rest of christianity's disgusting beliefs, this one needs to be flushed down the toilet.

Instead, christians are doubling down on efforts to kill off the elderly, disabled, the poor, and unemployed who are "useless eaters."

It's vile.

Why should a billionaire get to relax while you work multiple jobs to survive? Or worse, whilst the billionaire fires you out of the blue just to save costs.

UBI isn’t unfair - the system we have now is. It’s time to stop rewarding wealth hoarding and start ensuring that everyone has enough. Including you. ❤️

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@ubi4me

#Nixon did some shady shit, but he was spot on with his support of #UBI.

There was a #commercial from some initiative in the #UK where they gave a, I think, £10 note to a rich person (who put it in his pocket) and to a normal person (who spent it). The commercial follows the note that is spent, and at the end, goes back to the rich guy, who still has the note in his pocket.

If anyone recognizes this, and can provide a #link, my #followers and I would be grateful.

OTTAWA — The government’s fiscal watchdog says a guaranteed basic income program at the federal level could cut poverty rates in Canada by up to 40 per cent.

In a new report published Wednesday, Parliamentary Budget Officer Yves Giroux said that a Canadian family in the lowest earning group could expect to receive an average of $6,100 in annual disposable income through such a program.


#UBI
bnnbloomberg.ca/business/econo

Parliamentary Budget Officer Yves Giroux waits to appear at the Standing Committee on Natural Resources on Parliament Hill on Monday, Nov. 18, 2024 in Ottawa. Implementing a guaranteed basic income at the federal level could reduce poverty rates in Canada by up to 40 per cent, the PBO says.THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld
BNN Bloomberg · Implementing guaranteed basic income could cut poverty rates up to 40%, PBO saysBy The Canadian Press

Billionaires want you to believe UBI is “too expensive.”

Meanwhile, they hoard trillions. They get tax breaks, loopholes, and bailouts - but when it comes to helping everyone, suddenly there’s “no money”?

There’s money. It’s just in the wrong hands.

UBI isn’t a cost - it’s an investment in everyone. ❤️

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#UBI isn't The Solution either. Story time! In the 1960s, the Netherlands introduced a basic income system for people who had no other sources of income (no job, no social security, no pension). The minister who introduced it clearly stated that it should be easy to apply for and provide a comfortable income. "A vase of flowers on the table is part of life," as the minister said, so beneficiaries should be able to afford some luxuries too. And at the start, it really did work like that. A lot of people in the Netherlands were lifted out of poverty and were able to afford housing, utilities, food, clothes and even some luxuries. But over the decades, this bijstand as it was called, was increasingly undressed. Nowadays, people living off bijstand have dropped back below the poverty line, and are subject to intense surveillance that seems to have been taken straight out of 1984. An infamous anecdote is inspectors coming to check if you don't have an extra tooth brush in your bathroom which might indicate that someone else is "illegally" living with you. Or more recently, a woman who was fined thousands of euros because her parents regularly went grocery shopping for her, which was seen as an undeclared income.

When a UBI is introduced, it will definitely lift millions of people out of poverty, and provide millions more the opportunity to leave their exhausting bullshit underpaid jobs and chase their dreams. But everybody would still be at the mercy of the capitalist class. How long before the UBI will start to drop back towards poverty levels? How long before the first groups of people are denied their
universal basic income? Five years? Two decades? Six decades? Whichever it is, the eventual demise of UBI into a Kafkaesque hellscape like the Dutch bijstand is now in't a question of if, but when it will happen.

Still, I'm an avid supporter of introducing UBI. But only as a temporary stop-gap. It will instantly provide so much relief ot so many people that it is worth it. But once it has been introduced, we cannot afford to sit back contemplating a job well done... We must continue dismantling the systems that would eventually destroy it.

Let’s be clear: no one wants to “sit around and do nothing.” UBI doesn’t kill ambition - it frees it.

When people aren’t drowning in financial stress, they do more - start businesses, learn new skills, raise families, build communities. Maybe the real fear isn’t laziness - it’s that people will realize they deserve better. ❤️