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.

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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?

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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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UBI isn't meant to replace the income from all jobs, and we aren't going to lose all jobs, especially if we have UBI to maintain spending. What UBI excels at is functioning as a floor and a dividend to make sure everyone gets a rightful share and a cushion to prevent the worst + enable new pursuits.

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i think id just keep on with what im currently doing: saving up for my own car, make plans to either move out or go back to college. hell doing both might actually be on the table since id have one revenue stream keeping me alive and able to live somewhere, as well as my current job.

What’s your take on affordability? “Michael Green published a Substack post arguing that a $140,000 income is the new poverty level for a family of four in America, where the official poverty line is $32,150.” There’s a link to his blog worth reading.

If it covered all my basic needs and had a little extra...get some equipment and film cooking videos. I love teaching people how to cook and showing how easy it is, and no shame for pre-prepped ingredients or canned/frozen/etc or not having fancy kitchen equipment or knife skills or whatever.

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I'd save up as much as I can and offer asylum to friends and loved ones who want out of their dangerous country. Probably start a B&B, spend more time making music for my guests and I, and take care of a biiiig garden so I'd never run out of my favourite veggies. All neighbours welcome, ofc!

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Definitely take better care of my health, probably get some certifications, travel to see my family

If I had UBI to cover the basic food, bills, cozzie livs stuff, I would still work because I assume that my physiotherapy and psychiatrist wouldn't be covered by it. But I probably wouldn't pick up extra weekend work. I'd let myself have dedicated free time to do all the things I don't right now.

just work a day or two less so maybe I actually had time & energy to do other important things like clean my house

Assuming we can work out the devilish details, I'd leave the city and become a freelance adult tutor again, maybe an adjunct instructor. I can teach like a fish can swim, but it just doesn't pay enough to live.

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I would go back to working at a bookstore. I miss it so much even though the thought of doing in person customer service again weirds me out a little. I miss helping people find new authors & books to love. To have someone come in with "it's blue & about X" & handing it right to them. 📚📖🩶🫰

1. Stress less because I wouldn't have to worry about Social Security kicking me off SSI. 2. It depends on the amount paid out. If it's around 1,000 a month, nothing would change. I'd pay a little more in rent, but I'd still have around $400 a month left, which is fine.

Even with a Universal Basic Income I would still want to work because I love what I do. Any money earned over what is needed for bills, food, etc, would go to supporting other creatives and building a more sustainable future for my community. This “cost of living” situation isn’t sustainable.

I would feel a lot less pressure as the single income earner in this house! I would also take a few unpaid weeks off work every year to write and publish and paint and garden and just save my creative soul because eventually I'm going to burn out like this.

Stress a hell of a lot less.

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