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Basic Income Action ↗️
@basicincomeaction.org

If you have zero alternative and someone else controls the only means of survival, "you're free to say no" doesn't mean much. UBI is the power to actually say no.

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Use your words
@useyourwords2.bsky.social

There’s a difference between negative freedom and positive freedom Negative freedom is freedom from Positive freedom is freedom to You may be free to roam around the earth but you’re not free to access the self sustaining resources of the earth that nature meant for all of us because of man’s law

Use your words
@useyourwords2.bsky.social

Men in the past created laws that took away subsistence economies from commoners and replaced it with a feudal economy and a type of property rights system that makes people who have no property unfree and in a position that they must take orders from others to survive. That’s not freedom

Elf Burgerman
@elfburgerman.bsky.social

Don't claim I claimed something I didn't claim, please. I merely noticed how the two messages, one immediately following the other in my feed, were related, the second coming across as a case in point of the first. Talking about bad faith...

Mark (Andrew) Witham ↗️
@puffmushroom.bsky.social

I get why you put those side by side, but from our end it needs more context. And screenshotting posts is questionable, better to avoid it. Third, watch the bios before amplifying someone. This person’s bio isn’t suitable for work. And we weren’t sure of sideways promoting.