Tom Pogson

Explore the usual questions at www.scottsantens.com/basic-income... Link also in bio. Guy Standing also goes through them with a chapter on both "how to pay for it" and "won't people quit?" In his book "Basic Income and How We Can Make it Happen" (2015 Pelican Books.)

Congratulations to Alvin Tedjo on being elected Mayor of Mississauga! He’s been making the case for basic income for years. @alvintedjo.bsky.social

Unleash humanity's potential.

Homelessness would reduce substantially with UBI imo. It's needed now more than ever.

Young people need opportunities and income security while they work towards them. ANC secretary-general Fikile Mbalula has backed a basic income grant for young South Africans who leave school without matric, as youth unemployment reaches 47.4%. zurl.co/uBW2U

We know how to solve poverty We know how to solve homelessness We already have an understanding of the causes WE ALREADY KNOW THE SOLUTIONS!!! It’s not a question of how or why anymore it’s a question of when are we going to start… It all starts with an unconditional basic income…

Step 2 : Progress Step 1 : Leverage

There are plenty of socialists who support UBI, specifically because it makes it a lot less risky to do socialism in a capitalist world: people are a lot more willing to unionize / join strikes, or quit their jobs and form cooperatives, when they no longer fear doing so will cause them to starve.

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Cost of sweeps in #yyj incidentally is $12,877 per day (386,310/month) Also, if we go by the lower amount of keeping somone unhoused per month due to lost opportunity costs, health and other emergency services, it's (with over 1700 unhoused) over 7 million/month. You know, speaking of "budgeting."

Almost half of British Columbians have a candidate on their ballot who signed our pledge to work towards a guaranteed basic income in BC if elected. This is the investment BC's future needs. See who's on the list:

With poverty you're either paying to address it one way, or paying to address it another. Letting it play out costs even more. Better to address it up front in a way that is most effective, dignified and inexpensive. Welcome to basic income. bsky.app/profile/scot...

'Time poverty' is one of modern capitalism’s least discussed forms of deprivation. When a person has no hours in a day to see friends, to recover, and to relax, life becomes something squeezed around work.

»The dignity of the individual will flourish when the decisions concerning his life are in his own hands, when he has the assurance that his income is stable and certain, and when he knows that he has the means to seek self-improvement.« -- Martin Luther King Jr. he supported #BasicIncome #ubi

This is private equity, this is what it does. Buy up businesses, run them into the ground, and rip them apart for short-term profit. www.pcgamer.com/gaming-indus...

Genuine question about "sweeps." Does anyone genuinely think that if we just keep making life horrid for our most vulnerable that one morning we're going to wake up and everyone on Pandora will be gone? Like "gosh, I guess we told them." Seriously? Anyone believe that? bsky.app/profile/bire...

There is no reason why this can’t be done in a Lot of other places….

In a couple years we've gone from "wow, this whole album was made by ai"... ...to here.

Right now we have a UBI, it's just set at $0. We can decide it should be higher than that. We can decide no-one needs to prove why they get to survive. We're also better off if we do this, but that shouldn't need be said. Because it just damn well shouldn't.

"How did they pay for quantitative easing?" David Graeber

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What if social protection started with trust, not suspicion? Too often, access to social support comes with conditions: proving you are poor enough, showing you are actively looking for work, or demonstrating you deserve help. Basic income offers a different starting point.

What happens when work is no longer the main way people earn an income? At BIEN Congress in Toronto, I presented a roadmap for building universal economic security in the post-AI age. Basic income is the bridge, broad ownership is the destination. My full talk: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukl9...

NEW: A groundbreaking pilot project in which Indigenous people in the Peruvian Amazon were given an unconditional basic income significantly improved community wellbeing, strengthened food security and supported rainforest protection, according to analysis by the University of Bath released today.

Lucy, 100% It's a non-question anyways. Basic income is just a floor, we always decide how much of what we decide to invest in and we live in an age of hyper financialization, rentierism, compound capital and old out of date systems. "Whatever we need, we can afford." J.M. Keynes.

"AI may substantially accelerate structural imbalances that long predate AI itself and deserve serious, pragmatic, and non-ideological discussion. 'The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only legitimate object of good government.'" — Thomas Jefferson

This BC Election, do you know where your riding's candidates stand on basic income? Join me in asking your candidates to pledge support, for the future of BC. share.nwmd.social/s/5YJOi9Iv

He stands with BC's sole progressive party.

BC Greens' new platform includes UBI to support workers displaced by technologies like AI. But it's about much more than that -- economic freedom, saying no to a bad situation, saying yes to pursuing one's potential.