"Nobody wants to work anymore!" says the class of people who live off dividends.

In the liberal tradition, property rights come from self‑ownership: if we own ourselves, we own the products of our labor. That right has limits when others lack “enough and as good” opportunities. Basic income is a way to universalize those opportunities and keep the promise of that tradition alive

Every damn thing I do now but be able to sleep at night.

Definitely run more. Cook from scratch and stop eating UPFs. Play the piano and accordion again. Probably start sewing again. Do loads of fell walking with my husband. Play with the dog. Clean and redecorate the house. The list goes on.

I'd initially keep working to save for retirement and pay off my house, but both of those things would happen faster. I'd support local arts and businesses. I'd take more time off, travel more, volunteer more.

I would finally finish the novel series, and poetry chapbooks, busk and record my blues-soul-gospel-jazz sound, maybe try my hand at drawing and painting…

We're not terribly well off but have education privilege already, so I think we'd probably be saving some of it for the children's education and some for a slightly larger house. But it would also mean we could comfortably go on holiday, so that bit would go back into the economy.

I would design knitting patterns and not feel so bad that I'm disabled and can't work full time.

I'm about to get it (effectively) - a state pension. Am I going golfing or signing up for cruises? Nope, I will have the security at last to start a small business doing stuff I'm really interested in, supporting my local economy and yes, paying tax, hopefully for many years to come.

Education. Then I could get a good job and not need basic income assistance. Healthcare until America finally joins the rest of the world and provides some type of universal healthcare.

Invest more in my small business, give more gifts to family and friends, increase my donations. I give to food banks, but hopefully there would be less need for them with UBI. But I could find a new cause.

I'd pay my share of the additional tax needed to finance this, which would be (as it should be) more than I received.

Pay down debt.

Repeated studies about a Basic Income show how beneficial it is to individuals, recipients families, and wider society. Every country should offer a Basic Income. @basicincomeaction.org

Something crazy like buy food.

If I were in my 20's it would cover the basics of living so I could pursue an interest more freely and thoroughly.

Eat healthy.

I would pay for living expenses like food, utilities, health insurance, etc.

The problem is not your inability to budget. The problem is wage theft. #UBI

We could do $12,000 every year, or better yet, $1,000 every month (or better yet $1,300/mo per person instead of per household of four). And we could do it for everyone instead of only households under $150,000 in annual income and call it universal basic income instead of direct payments.

The USA is in a constitutional crisis at the moment, which we see as a greater priority, thank you for your attention.

UBI debates must separate gross vs net cost. In the US, a $16k adult / $8k child UBI has a $4.86T gross cost, but a $605.5B net cost after offsets. Therefor, the real cost is about one-seventh of the headline number.

Progressives HAVE been weighing in. -universal health care -streamlining immigration processes -universal basic income -more funding for childcare But no one wanted to listen.

I am pleased to announce that I have taken Texas. It's clear those that had it couldn't run it so I will. This state will have universal basic income for everyone who makes less than $100K/yr paid for by taxing the rich & the corporations, esp oil & gas. Thank you for your attention to this matter!

I would continue my job as I truly like it. But basic income would take a lot of stress out of handling my loans etc. I could use money more freely to fun stuff like eating in a restaurant and travelling.

Every means-tested program creates two costs: 1. Administration 2. Fraud prevention Universal Basic Income eliminates both by design. If everyone qualifies, there’s nothing to game.

Universal Basic Income now

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“When I was awarded this money, it was overwhelming. It is a lot of money to people like us – I felt like I’d won the lottery. I bought a phone, laptop and printer so I can do a college course. I want to do civil law so I can advocate for people who are homeless. Getting this money gives you hope.”

I would use it to ensure my family had a better, safer, and healthier lifestyle that isn't available without access to products/services that have no inexpensive option available.

Land is a commons. Every human depends on it to exist. When exclusive ownership is enforced, everyone else is implicitly paying rent just to live. This framing is meant to provoke thought in helping the UBI community better understand the argument. UBI is justice for being denied the commons.

We should have implemented a universal basic income in 1975 and indexed it to grow as productivity grew. That was the only realistic way of ensuring that productivity growth benefited all of us. To this day, UBI remains the most important thing to start to make sure we *ALL* benefit from GDP growth.

People ask, “How do we fund UBI?” That’s skipping the first question: how did a few people get so rich in the first place? The answer isn’t just hard work. It’s control of land, resources, and systems everyone depends on UBI is the share everyone gets when access is taken away

What’s your take on private property land owners paying us all rent?

Basic Income in Canada is closer than you think Basic Income isn’t a utopian dream. It is a real policy initiative that is working its way through Parliament right now. #cdnpoli #canada #UBI rabble.ca/columnists/b...

wish they would just say UBI and universal healthcare “won’t work” bc keeping people sick and stressed and scared is the only thing allowing me personally to rob them blind

And the same is true for universal basic income. The entire economy is oriented around the default setting of desperation to survive amidst maldistributed abundance.

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Do what my purpose in life is and always been: create. Music, art, poetry, travel and make art and photos and poems about it. Return to the semi-Nomadland life I lived for awhile, and got so much material to create about. Write. Share it. Teach it. Live it.

Spend my days writing, making art and learning all the different arts and crafts that I wanna learn. Also get into baking again, I miss it 🥺

Depends on how much we're talking about. If it just replaced my pension, I would still be hanging on by my fingertips. An extra thousand per month? I might become a digital nomad, make travelogues for places further and further away. Or build the house Sara & I dreamed of.

Baseline: cover utilities (water/electricity/internet/etc.) and food. Remainder? Reinvest it in expanding what I can do and create. I can put some cash aside over time to finish the basement and turn it into a workshop, meaning I'd be able to make physical goods to sell.

I genuinely don’t know what I would do with myself. Might keep teaching, might go full time research (or take leave to finish my degree). Go to way more conferences. But first pay off debt.

I would move to a mountain and write books, and volunteer in the local school on the side.

Start my own business.

(a) Do more as a caregiver for my mother. (b) Learn better ways of making my arts projects, whether star maps or comic books.

Not spend so much time worrying about what will happen to my entire family if AI destroys my day job the way it has destroyed my writing job. 🙃

Worry a lot less about whether or not I'm getting enough hours at work, buy some much needed clothing. Attend more Ottawa Rapid matches (possibly season tickets). Relax more and actually enjoy more of life.

Capitalism required workers to be separated from land and property so they would have no choice but to sell their labor. That was the original exploitation, and it never ended. Universal Basic Income is not charity. It is compensation. Opposing UBI means defending exploitation.

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