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What’s the correlation?

Since tuberculosis is a kind of gateway disease to many equally devastating diseases, this is wonderful news. Thank you!

I wouldn't be surprised if Brazil posts gains in national productivity, too.

Universal basic income would only mean a level playing field; a starting point for everyone. Anyone who wants to make more is still free to try.

Capitalism is inherently cruel; it’s deliberately designed to create a false hierarchy based solely on greed, not merit or fairness. It’s a Hunger Games-system.

It's an equal income FLOOR. Everyone is still free to earn more via their jobs and stuff. Alaska has had a small annual UBI since 1982. Works great. Lots of positive long-term outcomes.

I agree ubi is a temporary bandaid as well, but the point isn’t to impose an equal income on everyone, it’s to allow for an equal *minimum* income for everyone that isn’t tied to labor (this is what distinguishes ubi from a minimum wage). People could still earn more beyond the ubi.

Good point. What u am wondering out loud is how we stop or dissuade from greed. It is a basic human trait albeit, negative or progressive depending on which way you look at it.

It sounds woke. Giving away money just to cure poverty and disease. Thank God, Trump will never do that.

Lifting up the downtrodden is good for all of us.

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Basic income works

There's also universal healthcare coverage. Though it is continuously under attack by private medical interests.

“Unexpected” seriously ?!?Fuck you NPR. Literally EVERY SINGLE UBI trial has had the same positive effect. Stop pandering and trying to “both sides” settled science.

Language matters. In choosing "Unconditional" to help describe Basic Income to people, I am very deliberately trying to get away from how "universal" has been watered -down and distorted in American thinking.

Autonomy and privacy, also rights. "Deserving" doesn't play in. I wish more people could visualize what true liberation and equality would look like.

I was just thinking about pinging him too lol

It's not unexpected. It is the literal f****** point of giving people money. Yeah you give people money they'll live better lives. Some of that is not dying of cureable diseases Would you say being warmed by a campfire is an unexpected result?

Wow!! How great!

"And it's through two prongs: One is making sure they get educated, they grow up healthy with access to health care. And then the second is giving the family money so that they can have better food or school uniforms." Seema Jayachandran professor of economics at Princeton University.

And that’s… bad? People don’t have to accept the money if they don’t want their kids vaccinated. Or is it going to school that you have a problem with?

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Just as America ushers in the new age of Polio.

No, I read it. Brazil is not America. Not even close. Medicaid cash is not new. PO folks love it. Dat's not right. Finding comfort in Enslavement is regressive. Exactly what happens. Why r Big Blacks so successful? THEY WERE NURTURED. U critics have nothing but goo for brains.

Oh.. Cash does that?

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How many more studies of UBI do we need before @democrats.org start getting behind a $3,000/mo UBI program as a strating point. Democrats need to as loud and on point on Medicare for All and UBI as the GOP has been on abortion. It may take time but it can win. The party only needs to try.

Turns out the opposite of the trickle down method can actually help people.

It's wild to me that the benefits of universal social programs empirically produces positive results for everyone, and we just don't do them.

Great report. Bravo Brazil! This so should not be a surprise! Improvements in living conditions in US & Europe in first half of 20th C did as much—probably more—to reduce TB rates & deaths there than did antibiotics in the 2nd half.

UBI is proof of income inequality. Imagine basic standards of living improving generalizes to other disease as well. Idea:Progressive tax, all excess goes to UBI permanent funds. US government guarantees loans equal to excess tax of corporations. That's a win win real trickle. Invest=dragons.

Who knew giving poor people money makes their lives better. Aside from every study of Universal Basic Income and every poverty activist and scholar in the world.

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But how is it affecting those poor CEOs? Does anyone even CONSIDER what it's doing to their bottom line?

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Serendipitous!

Imagine. ღ

Humans discover that struggling and starving is bad for people, more at 11. In all seriousness, good to hear about.

Most suffering on your planet is due to intentional failures in resource allocation. Earth has a bounty plentiful for all, yet resources are hoarded by the few to the detriment of the many. It pleases us to see that some of you understand this and are working toward positive change.

Go figure!

We can build UBI and billionaires can only stop us if they can convince us that we can't build it. Don't let them. Let's build it now.

Not a one or another situation.

Yo @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social you see this TB content?