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I shared a screenshot of this and the African country - I forget Which One - Study Today, Christmas Day On my WhatsApp and my Signal Stories Byline: World peace ❓ Universal basic income : UBI‼️

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Cause it's not UBI, it's a small cash payment

In basic income experiment after basic income experiment, and cash program after cash program, a practically universal result of unconditionally providing money to pregnant women is that their nutrition improves, and as a result their babies are born healthier. youtu.be/z5biBPNlKJs?...

Hmm, I guess it has worked here following all your threads.

Whoa whoa whoa. I need you to understand that PFD money comes with a trade off - raping the natural world on which Native communities thrive.

Then a study of merely two years on one village in Africa where likely people are already very entrepreneurial to survive is then added to the list with Alaska's one-time stipend and everything else. You have to study ALL indicators in ONE place over time with MONTHLY UBI.

I think I see why UBI has so much resistance...

Nothing about UBI is about the funding side. What makes UBI a UBI is how cash is delivered.

I know this is counter intuitive in our dominance culture, but people need work. They need to be productively engaged with others on a shared purpose in order to have a sense of well-being in their lives. UBI will not cause unemployment, rather it will open opportunities for better employment.

I've said for some time, a UBI would mean that those who don't want to work, who struggle with work life balance could chose not to work, which would increase efficiency overall

No one said it was. It provides an amount of income and security, and that has benefits to individual recipients and to society.

What are the current highlights? Anyone?

@canadiancontent.bsky.social start here, Scott links a ton of articles.

I'm aware of that too. I follow it all pretty closely.

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We had the opportunity for a basic income in Ontario Canada. The pilot programs $2,000 a month no questions were very successful but in their wisdom (not) they voted for Buck-A-Beer that never arrived and we got a mobster premier who is handing out public property to his developer buddies instead

And given the inroads of AI & automation jobs could decrease and/or change, can’t count on tech bros to consider implications of their work, will fail to make sure workers land safely, retrained. How much unnecessary costly stress can be reduced if you know yoj can keep a roof over your head?

Nixon's proposal excluded all childless adults and came with a work requirement, but yes.

I've had a quick read through and will go through it more slowly and watch the videos later. In Britain we have a big issue with house price inflation which tends to sop up any spare cash in the economy. Looking at UBI as part of a package which reviews taxation and price controls makes more sense.

Isn’t this kind of how we kept the economy afloat during the pandemic?

Powerful findings from essential work Scott. More power to YOU!

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Where were all these countries?

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Great thread. I’ve saved it for later reference. Thx! We have an enormous and growing abundance in our society. In our current design, that accumulates in a few hands who park those resources in the finance casino. The value is drained away. UBI can flow that abundance back into the real economy.

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The problem is, we all been subjected to the Neoliberal economics theory playbook. How can multinationals subject the working class to fear tactics if we do UBI?

UBI is otherwise known as "capital gains " It is for the wealth class, not us.

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Harmonize Economics with Creative Currency Octaves: BetterToBest.wixsite.com/book/post/harmonize-economics-with-creative-currency-octaves

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How do you add the pin?

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The Kenya experiment is 12 years and covers entire villages. The Uganda one is 7 years and an entire village. Then there's Alaska which is 40+ years and the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians which is tribe-universal and that's been going since the late 90s.

This country has become so far removed from the values of its founders. Right-wing "capitalism" is based on resource scarcity and fears of never having enough. Fostering the common good is threatening to them. They only feel powerful as long as there is a minority of the unempowered.

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Improved education and cognitive functioning means that conservative politicians would sooner kill their own families before allowing UBI to exist

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Indeed

Thank you for your work in attempting to make the world a better place we may have different ideas, but our goals are similar to minimize human suffering.

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this is also something people don't get about universal healthcare SO much of our system costs are just shitty bureaucracy. everything would be much cheaper if someone could have a small private practice without an entire huge-ass billing department

Universal basic income is not more expensive than a cash policy that incorporates a phaseout. The phaseout is simply a tax by another name. www.scottsantens.com/negative-inc...

It would require a huge rethink in taxation it’s true. But the decision isn’t based on economics: for starters putting more money into the hands of the less well off boosts the economy as they go out more and buy more semi-luxuries, it’s a purely political decision.

Of that, the largest expense is debt interest, followed by health, capital projects (roads etc), and defense. To extend the fuel payment to every UK resident, instead of just people born before 1954, would cost only 20 billion, or a bit under 16% of the defence budget.

I’m just saying that as long as the billionaires control everyone this kind of egalitarian society will never come to fruition unless there’s a massive uprising

People can't stand folks getting something for nothing. I'm not a bible-head, but Matthew: 20 is human nature. If people don't like the idea of a Basic Income then create a type of Americorps program where everyone does a bit of community service for their denarius. Could be fun & enriching.

Thank you

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Very interesting! Facts are so much better to relate to than ideology (said by a man with some very fundamental ideological beliefs! :D)

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UBI should be universal

Putting you on my short list of important people to attend to🤗.

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It all sounds too good to be true However, as Ai replaces us humans at work We are left with no choice UBI get used to hearing “UBI”

Food for thought…as Ai is about to replace human workers

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This is great! I hope UUBI becomes a thing, but I think it's still a ways off. Keep up the good work!

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#AltUBI doesn't have to wait.

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Thanks for sharing! It’s remarkable that such a simple idea would have so many meaningful benefits! I really hope to experience UBI in my lifetime.

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Helps to understand it's not as expensive as most think and that there will be savings from reduced crime and illness among other downstream benefits. www.scottsantens.com/negative-inc...

Also if the data about health outcomes and other outcomes hold then the money is recouped from other areas of government spending, and may even turn a profit!

We always knew that UBI works. It is the extreme corporate capitalism, and its anti socialistic prejudice, that does not work and stands at odds with UBI. So, you cannot fix one until you fix the other. As usual, US will be one of the last western countries to implement UBI for its public, as usual.

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Universal basic income is not there to replace a good days work but there to give security to those of us that do work it allows us to not have to worry about food and rent if hours are reduced it allows us afford better healthier food I love the idea and wouldn't stop working 👍🏻🙂

This is an interview the CBC did with Canada's greatest and surprising advocate for UBI, the late Hugh Segal. He was Chief of staff to Conservative PM Brian Mulroney and Conservative Premier Bill Davis. www.cbc.ca/radio/sunday...

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wow, you got amazing book but do you know that we can the book to music

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Depends what's trickling, brown water or yellow water..

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Someday everyone will have access to a UBI check. Perhaps it will play out like NYC & water. In the late 18th-early 19th century Aaron Burr had a scheme that sold running water to the homes of the rich for $20 a yr. Few got it. Today running water is so popular that every home has running water.

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You're a good man Scott. Keep it up!

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Yes. Anybody can get a job. But when there are 100 people and 10 jobs, however hard they all try to get a job, 90 will fail And be depressed And give up trying And find other solutions they can live with And the cost of keeping them alive falls on society anyway Or they die. UBI is cheaper.

It's here too all on one page. 👍 skyview.social?url=https://...

It's truly baffling that THIS threat of moral hazard is so important while the moral hazards and crimes elicited by egregious inequality are screaming in our faces all the time.

Feel free to start any time as chatGPT has already taken away my translation jobs and my co-workers. But don't send a check to me, I have Social Security and still do AI janitorial jobs and surveys. Give to groups helping immigrants in NYC.

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I like this analysis here. www.iej.org.za/financing-op...