This is why UBI matters. Automation exposes the lie that personhood must be rented back through employment. If machines increase productivity, the gains should secure human life, not give owners another lever to discard people.

Anyone who has designed a user interface element with options "Yes" "Maybe later" will have a burly individual turn up at their front door every morning to ask if they'd like to be punched in the face.

People cycling or riding scooters on the pavement ringing their bells at pedestrians should be pushed off their vehicles.

We often debate Universal Basic Income as an economic idea, but its clearest effects show up in mental health. When survival pressure drops, anxiety eases, crises decline, and people become more functional versions of themselves. This piece looks at what the evidence actually shows—beyond ideology.

It took about 5 minutes for Andy Burnham to show his true colours Goldman Sachs is a vampire capitalist company who spend every second of every day taking money from poor people, and transferring it to rich people NOT A GOOD START!

Then the next day he said consistency was good

Can you imagine the difference if a new leader came in and said "The time for incremental change and tinkering around the edges is over. Modern issues need modern solutions. We're going to be the first country to implement a full Universal Basic Income programme"

Because everything doesn't haven't suck all the time.

This guy runs a Non-profit charitable community restaurant that gives out unlimited free meals to the homeless year round. shawarmahut.uk

Same. If i were a trillion aire, i would become a millionaire, after putting those trillions to good work like universal basic income. Universal Healthcare cradle to grave. FREE 2 years of college. Parental leave. Housing

honestly there's no reason everyone can't have access to a basic nutritious diet, basic housing, and universal basic income. that should be the bare minimum

This onion gets me every time! #UBI #UniversalBasicIncome

I want someone on the “left” in Oz or NZ to promise bugger all, then once they scrape into power - just go immediately “mad like Mamdani” in putting in progressive policies, including a UBI. You’ll get 3 years to see if it works. The science says it will. Grow some balls. #auspol #nzpol

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the only way the capitalist machine can get more than its fair share is through stressing, bullying and scaring people into working harder, longer or faster than they are paid for this is the only reason, and i mean THE ONLY reason, things like UBI dont exist "a boss has to be tough" no they dont

I have done actual exercise three times this week, surely that's enough. Why do we keep having to do it over and over again forever? It's not fair.

Torontonians are also selling blood plasma to make ends meet. People are desperate. The extra income boosted the local economy, cut crime, and replaced predatory payday loans. UBI has the same proven benefits without needing to sell your body. It's obvious what we need to do.

This is why billionaires should not exist. It's not just about their bank accounts getting bigger. It's that they don't have to care about people anymore. Almost no one can push back in a way that will hurt them. They've bought the right to not participate in society anymore. (Read the full 🧵👇.)

They're absolutely right to complain about ageism, but the headline made me laugh. 'An actor called Chris or a talking animal' are made to sound like more or less the same thing.

If the Left wins, MAGA will get what they deserve: universal healthcare, housing, basic income, and most importantly, an education!

This is the best petty grievance I've seen EVEN ON HERE for a while.

Retraining as the only path forward for shifting economies does not work. Look where the coding generation is now - theyre some of the first on the chopping block now. People deserve REAL security through this #AI shift. No one deserves to navigate this without UBI

People often fear what other people won't do if they had an unconditional basic income, but what are you not doing right now because you don't have a UBI?

@cheekytexts.bsky.social why does this sound like it could be one of the texts (on an off day)?

We lost Douglas Adams 25 years ago today. This has made a lot of people very sad and has been widely regarded as a bad move.

heard a guy say "you have to access it through the portal" and i was momentarily struck by how sad it is that what he said is so boring :( "accessing it via the portal" should be wonderful. we deserve that at least. it should be cool to access it via the portal and instead it sucks shit

Marginal tax rate at the end of a pitchfork is 100%

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I've been seeing a lot of pull quotes specifically about UBI from this article, but I love this section talking about the power of a community of creators. Every period I've been really inspired to do good work, it's because I'm in an incredible community. www.scottsantens.com/the-angine-d...

Saying "we'll need UBI when AI takes our jobs" is free to say. Funding UBI is not free. So, I've just launched The AI Pledge for Humanity. It dares the people profiting from AI to do the second thing. Sign and share. And reply with this every time another tech CEO talks UBI without backing it up.

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THIRD THOUGHT OF THE DAY… The resistance to UBI (universal basic income) by those in power comes down to this… If ordinary people had access to this safety net, then more ordinary people would be in a position to do the right thing. Most people having no safety net are compelled to “obey orders”.

UBI won't happen because it would kill capitalism. Not because UBI would make people stop working. People LOVE putting in the work but only for things that matter to them or the world. UBI would kill the need for mindless bullshit jobs, and that's like the whole foundation of capitalism.

If your boss can't threaten you with homelessness if you don't work overtime this week then that's a good thing.

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If being woke, radical or an extremist means I believe everyone has the right to universal healthcare, affordable housing, universal basic income, food and then you can call me the most wokest, radicalist extremist and there are millions of us Human rights are not optional

I also have an extreme number of synaesthesic synchronicities - clustered together to make several per day - and I'm keeping an eye on this

That's why we need Universal basic income. If our very survival wasn't tied into us working a 9-5, peoplecould focus on their passion projects instead, even if some of them dont necessarily pay. Money wouldn't have to be the driving force of our lives anymore.

One of the most interesting things about UBI trials is they often use relatively modest amounts of money per participant, yet see massively outsized gains even in studies that seem like they were designed to show failure. It is a resilient system, hard to sabotage. Put money in pockets, see results

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@mancultureplym Needs rephrasing - unless this is equally a call to arms for men to take part in violence!!?

Nothing about this unfortunately clarifies that men should stand up *against* this violence. It equally reads as a call to stand together and jump on this trend (as you're getting away with it).