Are you disturbed by the disruptions being caused by AI? Do you have 5 minutes today? Print this out or email it to the companies creating AI “To whom it may concern, It has come to our attention that you use artificial intelligence (AI) in your products or services. 1/5

Have you heard of Rudolph the red nose reindeer? If you did you would know you don’t throw things out even if something is different And you don’t devalue things even if you have a use for it at the moment Fridges, cabinets, sheds, garages and UBI all preserve value

One of the most common replies in any discussion of universal basic income is "but how do we pay for it?" and not once do those same people ever question the costs incurred by not doing UBI. We spend $1.5 trillion every year on the costs of child poverty alone. Poverty ain't free, folks. WE ALL PAY.

I’ve been all for UBI but recently I thought about my favorite comic books… What if cities like Gotham and New York had UBI? We wouldn’t have Batman! And we wouldn’t have Spiderman! And law enforcement would have 80% less work Who wants that!?! I’m having second thoughts on UBI

“You have to create a world where people wouldn’t want to do that” I just read that 80% of crime is survival crime Meaning if people had enough money to survive they wouldn’t have committed the crime That’s a staggering percent Imagine reducing 80% of crime That’s why I support UBI

“Ghosts can’t harm you… If they could there would only be about 5 white people still alive” I heard that joke and it lives on low rent in my head But they should, for like a week, allow ghosts to harm or help people and see what the world looks like at the end …fight the power… …fight oppression

Reinstating the Charter of the Forest would help

UBI shows you love someone That you care about their survival And it means you support allocating a small bit of the budget to other people’s welfare instead of things like war or another data center for AI that no one asked for

Make this global Don’t just protest it I’d directly address the problems it’s creating Problem: AI is replacing the income people receive from work and not paying creators for the content it uses Demand: Everyone stop or ban using all AI products until the globe has a UBI in place

If homelessness was caused by bad decisions we’d all be homeless Homelessness is caused by numerous issues Many settler colonists called indigenous peoples savage but they didn’t have millions of homeless people in misery Thomas Paine said and observed that indigenous peoples lived happy lives

Comic: Bird starving of hunger A man tosses bread to the bird Someone else chimes in “breads not good for birds. Don’t you know?” Bird “I better not eat that. it might clog my arteries and I’ll die”

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Imagine if a guy invented a popular selling product n all these people buy it Then a politician says, “This person is wealthy. Let’s give them more n more power over people’s lives” That’s a problem with the society we have Because money is needed to survive it is coercive UBI fixes that

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For homelessness, add housing as a right into the constitution or the bill of rights Then take the gov to court to open up public lands for housing (not shelters, real permanent places for homes) And ban property taxes on the land the house sits on so no one can take it away

For homelessness, as housing as a basic right into the constitution or the bill of rights Then take the gov to court to open up public lands for housing (not shelters, real permanent places for homes) And ban property taxes on the land the house sits on so no one can take it away

Solomon was mostly right in the first chapter of Ecclesiastes It’s all chasing after the wind. We can do all this work n someone can come after us and ruin it all He said people will forget us and our work when we’re dead It’s true but they didn’t forget Solomon and we can pass on our knowledge

One of the fairest and democratic ideas I heard was profit sharing; where if you put in more effort at your company you would share in its success We all participate in this vast economic infrastructure that not one but all of us built together A UBI recognizes that

Invention idea A device that tells if fruit is fresh Blueberries would always fail lol

We could have lived in a Red Dead Redemption 2 world A slower pace life, abundant wildlife, natural preservation of nature and the peace of a content and undisturbed world How the pursuit of money and roads and speed over everything has damaged the earth Enclosure and roads

The employer giveth The landlord taketh away

All these high costs of living aren’t only hurting people now it’s hurting your kids Corporate landlords and property investors realty companies and the landlord monopoly and low wages all play a part Open the commons, give people housing and a UBI Self determination is a right Housing is a right

The solution isn’t to medicate problems away or recommend coping skills It’s to recognize n acknowledge that civil, social n technological changes have occurred n will continue to occur n that we need to make accommodations for them n that now

Life can be really complicated. It’s not fair to judge people that struggle with it

Should food stamps continue to cover foods like soda and sweets? The correct answer is who gives a shit. The only time you should be looking in someone else’s bowl is too make sure it’s full