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Our UBI would pay for our Medicare supplemental insurance

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So the flipside of this: One person with £143m of wealth is given, just for having that wealth, the same amount as 10 people working average-income jobs. Every year. If they don't spend it, then it's 11 people, 12 people. etc. 10 years of average-citizen spending power for every year.

With that level of wealth you can go further, there's no reason to ever spend your pot. Rather it makes more sense to borrow whatever money you want to spend, secured against your assets but leaving them untouched. You earn more from your wealth than you will ever pay in interest.

We can collectively strive towards a world where no human is compelled to work in order to survive. #UBI mothcloud.com/a-shared-uni...

Did I suggest it wasn’t?

I dont disagree But “something for nothing” is never honest/transparent

Call a plumber.

Worry less. A lot less. Probably live longer because of it.

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Survive.

Probably go part time depending on what the UBI was and volunteer with some of the extra time I had.

Pay off debt, in particular the mortgage we're still servicing - in my case in my 70s.

I’d work a more fulfilling job that pays less. It’s very frustrating that so many beautiful non-profits can’t afford me.

Possibly take a course in something. Be able to afford to get a little place of my own after saving for only a short while instead of long-term. Be able to hop on a train and see more of the UK than just my little corner every now and then. ... Get some nice bread. ^^;

i might try to go back to school or see if i can make it as an author, but otherwise i'd probably just keep searching for a job that really suits me. the only difference is that i wouldn't be feeling sick about having to pay rent.

I would be able to stop asking friends to pay for my groceries, and maybe even be able to take my pets to the vet when they need it!

pay the rent, of course

Would keep doing full time art with all my strength, but would be able to divert more time into personal projects like making comics and videogames =) Maybe even go back to sculptures. And get back into a gym and stuff, y'know. Healthy life.

I’d still work my part time job because I enjoy it . But I’d be less stressed about how much my medical stuff costs and maybe even be able to afford some of the more expensive tests I should have alleged cash is available. Also MAKE ALL THE THINGS

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I would volunteer more in my community

I would still be teaching, only half-time. As for the rest of the time... I've always wanted to try beekeeping lol

This depends on how much it is, but I'd probably just add it in to my existing budget and go from there. Priority spending on basic essentials like normal food and utilities, with leftovers spilling on to discretionaries like restaurants and movies.

I would continue in my part time job and not have the worry of falling into debt whenever my income doesn’t quite meet my outgoings. I would probably put a little more into my eBay trading as well. It would be nice to not have the financial stress week to week.

Take more time off my regular work ( I run a garden design and landscaping business) to pursue other interests like making garden furniture and pots/planters. I currently don't have time to do this

Good thanks!

I'd start truly living. Putting projects together. Protecting my peace.🙏❤️

I would donate it to the campaigns of the politicians who voted for it and are now most at risk.

Stop worrying about money/retirement (or lack thereof) all the time.

I don't think it's helpful to make it sound like everyone's just going to "live the dream" because they get ~ $2,000 a month. Capitalists have made life so expensive that a UBI is the safety net we've deserved for a generation. It's a mechanism to help us catch up financially.

afford health insurance in my benighted country

Interesting question. I’m thinking that until I retire that any UBI to me would be taken back in taxes, if not a little extra. So I would expect nothing. My kid’s UBI would be split between savings and charitable giving of their choice.

I'd quit the soulless marketing dayjob and just write my critically acclaimed and critically underread novels.

I already get it, in the form of Canada's Guaranteed Income Supplement for low-income seniors. I use it for necessary home improvements and home insurance - both of which I could never have afforded! A lifesaver!

Stress less about dying and leaving my grandchildren in this world, with nothing! I thought my retirement was going to give me peace, so I worked my entire life to the bone. 💔

Get a linguistic degree (I would say finish getting it, but at this point I would have to re-do it from the start), and work in a local collective (farming, gardening or crafting clothes and utility items).

Use it as a savings cushion for emergencies rather than spending the majority of my wages managing rising utility costs and an outrageous mortgage rate created by billionaires screwing over the housing market and making everything unaffordable for average folk.

Find a job I'd be happy at

Save, get dumpling and watch movie, save more and keep doing what I’m doing

Not die from stress related illness.

Stop worrying so much about how my almost grown kids are going to survive in a world not built for people like them.

I'd pay off some medical debt, and take care of some treatment that I've been putting off for financial reasons. Mind you, I have decent health insurance through my employer.

move closer to family and take some financial stress off my wife

In Canada the quote was 2000 a month. That would pay my rent and internet and phone and buy some food. I could continue my career as an artist with out freaking out which is now a regular thing the last several years as the industry is in the gutter

I’m sure mine would still all go to doctors. But if it didn’t, i’d probably raise the mutual aid budget. Or start a savings account. Or hats.

Read more books.

I already get it, between my Navy pension and Social Security. It’s very nice.

No change, just a better cushion for emergencies.

Take more Walking Vacations. Like they do in Europe. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nationa...

I would engage with my community more, volunteer where orgs needed people. I'd spend more time making art and building communities of mutual aid. Do social science research in TTRPG spaces

Dont you think poverty is a curb on demand? High prices are great churn, head down and earn, so survive. Like a central bank interest rate hike. Keep the bastards distracted lest they turn on them. Billionaires eat and drink the work of the poorest, the poorest make them billionaires.

Pay off bills. Not have panic attack when food shopping.

Stop running tabletop games for money. Start running them for friends and teenagers again.

Eat more like a normal human. Not worry about the next impending increase in rent that could be the one that makes me homeless. Make art.

Most of us would use it to pay for basic living costs, things we're struggling to afford, about which we worry so much it harms our wellbeing. I've just had to raid what's left of my savings yet again to pay for something basic - to get my loo to flush again. I wish I didn't have to worry.

Gross domestic happiness!

Pay for my living so I can focus on making arts, maybe save them to buy games or donate to charity.

Hire an animation team to make several YouTube short series that explore the meta nature of entertainment’s influence on our psychology, and how our mortality in turn affect it.

Honestly spend it on things others make and stuff i can make. like just more art. we just need more art

Live. Get a wheelchair. Travel some. Probably buy a bunch more books.

I would paint a bit more and stress way less

This UBI post is viral! 🤩 I’d like to do a follow up stream on discord Let me know your thoughts? 🙏🏼

I would continue to live and work the same, but my life would be infinitely more comfortable. Most of the time when UBI is suggested, its for 2 grand a month. That would allow me to stop ending the month with 20 bucks. A savings account, the ability to take a sick day, etc. What a world it would be.

get out of debt and maybe get a place of my own again.

We're comfortable, so I would probably give some to Greenpeace and some to United 24. I'm a fan of UBI but I do wonder: there are vital jobs which people generally don't like doing, but do for the money. I wonder how they'd get done? Many, such as harvesting, are more skilled than most people think.

Disabled and unemployed. I’d save half and with the other half, in order: $100/month: See a specialist for my condition. Buy plants. $500: Get a depression treatment not covered by insurance. $1000: Hire an aide to come by once a week for cleaning/cooking/etc., (and thus spreading the “wealth”)

I'd finally be able to go back to school and chase my career goals rather than chasing rent at minimum wage jobs in unrelated fields

Discover where my truest talents are and follow them.

Do whatever else I needed to live a comfy life - probably work part-time - and volunteer, mentor and educate people in my own skills (programming, math, writing, fixing pinball machines) and build new skills from others (mental health peer support specialist first)

Doesn’t sound strange at all. If more people could take time off to help social movements I think they certainly would. This is coming from a US citizen who knows plenty of people that would have joined protests if they could afford days off.

I'd open a business I've written a plan for but don't have the ability to now.

Also maybe find a way to grow my own food with others.

I would work hard, save up for a sailboat, and then I would cruise around the world and write shitty foodie guides to local restaurants.

Food, clothes, medicine, toiletries, cleaning supplies, bedding, maybe some new glasses... Just knowing i'd be able to get those things when i need them and not sacrifice the other things would be nice.

I say savings and investment because what laws are stopping those who set price points from saying, "Everyone had a bunch of extra money now. Let's get sumdat."? Nothing. What is to stop rent increasing AND goods/services increasing in a way that outpaces the stipend?

Get more into my creative side, save up, maybe get cable again

And Universal Heath Care.

Education/training to move up the ladder…

ChatGPT on UBI

I would get myself into peak health before considering work.

Save it for a rainy day, put it into a pension, spend it on holidays or use it to reduce the amount of days I need to work every month to earn the same amount.

if everyone got it, first I'd get a vr headset with hl:a and then I'd be throwing the rest at my friends.

Probably, some local manual labor 1/2 time, studying and lecturing the other half.

Probably, some local manual labor 1/2 time, studying and lecturing the other half.

We build it through grassroots initiatives and momentum to push public opinion till there’s no other discourse! ✊

i'd keep doing my job and if i got anything from the government i'd save it toward medical expenses or retirement

Focus on writing and creating all the ideas I constantly have rattling on in my head if I don't have to worry about whether we can affort proper food.

...because the internet companies take data they did not produce-ours- and profit from this, increasing inequality. They are swollen with the value of our voting rights!

Also the bureaucratic process seems, er, very broken... which makes it even more unnavigable.

And about government efficiency! 👍👍

ChatGPT is down today - i think we might be fine for a while yet!!!

This if everyone received the min living wage from the government and tax bands were changed accordingly it would hugely simplify the benefits system/bureacracy/waste, get money to people who need it - wiping out povery and the poorest SPEND their money, so it receycles.

Pay the bills.

If it’s $2000 a month? I wouldn’t have to work a minute of overtime ever again and I could actually travel once or twice a year and enjoy my time off.

It should ONLY be for rent and a plant food stipend.... And you would ONLY SEE the plant food stipend, because the banks will have the rent portion deposited federally every month AND you should SEE no more landlords-- JUST BANK WEBSITES, their local branches on the streets and rental maintenance.

Pretty sure that's the answer right there.

Retire earlier. I only have 18 months to go but I am sooo tired.

Throw some of that money into art for my personal publishing projects.

I'd start a pet food bank in my community

Get to a home that isn't falling apart (and probably making me sicker), pay for more medical treatment, buy more clothes, and by extension of all that get out more and isolate less.

I'd remain retired but with less fear. Perhaps I could travel again. My adult son would be able to focus more intently on building his business without fear of not being able to pay his workers.

Mine would be clawed back through higher progressive tax rates - as it should be.

It would make a world of difference next year if my wife’s union goes on strike as they are planning