#universal-basic-income — Public Fediverse posts

What national news org is always focused on the worker, not profits.
When are reporters ever talking about nationalizing #SpaceX, #Amazon?
Which #news channels are calling to strip states of "right to work" laws (#union busting).
Where are the huge liberal think tanks pushing for #UniversalBasicIncome w study after study of its efficacy?
>The country is so conservative in part because #conservatives are willing to spend for power.
>Until #liberals pay up, our #voices will be drowned out.

Keeping Screwups Out of the Workforce

https://tiereddemocraticgovernance.org/blog_details.php?blog_cat_id=19&id=186

#tiereddemocraticgovernance
#universalbasicincome

Keeping Screwups Out of the Workforce

https://tiereddemocraticgovernance.org/blog_details.php?blog_cat_id=19&id=186

#tiereddemocraticgovernance
#universalbasicincome

For the last three years, me and some other artists have been on a panel about basic income in Ireland. The main focus has been how the artist basic income pilot impacts the broader idea of universal basic income.

We've done a webinar every six months, featuring artists who received the Irish basic income and some who didn't (like me). Recordings all in the link. The last session is tomorrow at 6pm (UST) online. https://www.ubilabnetwork.org/events/basic-income-for-the-arts-in-ireland-from-pilot-to-permanent

#basicIncome #universalBasicIncome #artistBasicIncome

For the last three years, me and some other artists have been on a panel about basic income in Ireland. The main focus has been how the artist basic income pilot impacts the broader idea of universal basic income.

We've done a webinar every six months, featuring artists who received the Irish basic income and some who didn't (like me). Recordings all in the link. The last session is tomorrow at 6pm (UST) online. https://www.ubilabnetwork.org/events/basic-income-for-the-arts-in-ireland-from-pilot-to-permanent

#basicIncome #universalBasicIncome #artistBasicIncome

#universalbasicincome or #UBI

I think if implemented, I'd stop working. At least full time anyway because really I only need the basics. I'd rather have the free time then money for holidays and cars.

Would you continue working if there was a universal basic income?

Nikol explains the #universalbasicincome for the arts in #ireland scheme #basicincomeforthearts @Kunstenpunt after her #erasmusplus exchange. Such a great experiment!

🥳 Great news coming out of Europe 🥳

A new EU citizens' initiative for #UBI is being worked on 👍
https://basic-income.eu/en/index.html

"Interested in participating?
Contact us at [email protected] and write a few line on how you would want to help."

Let's make this happen 👍

#UniversalBasicIncome #UBI4ME #EU #CitizensInitiative

🥳 Great news coming out of Europe 🥳

A new EU citizens' initiative for #UBI is being worked on 👍
https://basic-income.eu/en/index.html

"Interested in participating?
Contact us at [email protected] and write a few line on how you would want to help."

Let's make this happen 👍

#UniversalBasicIncome #UBI4ME #EU #CitizensInitiative

Friendly reminder that today's discussion on #UBI will start promptly at 16:00 UTC 🥳

Topic: Citizens or residents – who should receive a UBI?

Link to the meetup:
https://meet.jit.si/UBI4ME_Community_Event_June_2026

Check your timezone:
18:00 CET: Madrid, Johannesberg, Paris, Lusaka, Stockholm, Harare, Hamburg
17:00 BST: London, Kinshasa, Abuja, Lisbon
16:00 UTC Dakar, Reykjavik
etc....

🙂 Find your location on the map: https://www.timeanddate.com/time/map/

See you then 👍

#UBI4ME #UniversalBasicIncome #Future #Policy #Government

Friendly reminder that today's discussion on #UBI will start promptly at 16:00 UTC 🥳

Topic: Citizens or residents – who should receive a UBI?

Link to the meetup:
https://meet.jit.si/UBI4ME_Community_Event_June_2026

Check your timezone:
18:00 CET: Madrid, Johannesberg, Paris, Lusaka, Stockholm, Harare, Hamburg
17:00 BST: London, Kinshasa, Abuja, Lisbon
16:00 UTC Dakar, Reykjavik
etc....

🙂 Find your location on the map: https://www.timeanddate.com/time/map/

See you then 👍

#UBI4ME #UniversalBasicIncome #Future #Policy #Government

One of the many arguments for a Universal Basic Income is that it might reduce/prevent copper thefts by desperate people.

Copper thefts are incredibly dangerous and wasteful - people stealing $200 worth of copper cause $50,000 worth of damage to railway signals and pedestrian railway crossings.

And there have been cases where only observant pedestrians prevented serious train crashes after copper thefts broke railway signals.

#UniversalBasicIncome

#UBI

One of the many arguments for a Universal Basic Income is that it might reduce/prevent copper thefts by desperate people.

Copper thefts are incredibly dangerous and wasteful - people stealing $200 worth of copper cause $50,000 worth of damage to railway signals and pedestrian railway crossings.

And there have been cases where only observant pedestrians prevented serious train crashes after copper thefts broke railway signals.

#UniversalBasicIncome

#UBI

@Edmonds_Scanner

#universalbasicincome would do all that. The cost is roughly 3% the dividends paid by the Insurance industry. That includes everyone, all 8+ billion. We've known this for 50 years. 😔

@Edmonds_Scanner

#universalbasicincome would do all that. The cost is roughly 3% the dividends paid by the Insurance industry. That includes everyone, all 8+ billion. We've known this for 50 years. 😔

Complete this short survey for @[email protected] about who should have #UniversalBasicIncome... Please repost... they are looking for a wide range of people... to submit their opinions... citizen-network.org/library/who-...

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"A basic income that allows someone to refuse a poorly paid job, or to strike without falling into poverty, is a tool of power for workers."

https://www.the-bunker.it/en/2026/05/21/whatever-happened-to-universal-basic-income/

#UBI #UBI4ME #poverty #work #UniversalBasicIncome #policy

"A basic income that allows someone to refuse a poorly paid job, or to strike without falling into poverty, is a tool of power for workers."

https://www.the-bunker.it/en/2026/05/21/whatever-happened-to-universal-basic-income/

#UBI #UBI4ME #poverty #work #UniversalBasicIncome #policy

Clara Mattei shares her viewpoint on capitalism in this interesting interivew.

What are your thoughts on capitalism?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9M_dq_0ljsc

#UBI #UBI4ME #UniversalBasicIncome #Future #capitalism #policy #tax #localaction #humanrights

Clara Mattei shares her viewpoint on capitalism in this interesting interivew.

What are your thoughts on capitalism?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9M_dq_0ljsc

#UBI #UBI4ME #UniversalBasicIncome #Future #capitalism #policy #tax #localaction #humanrights

As of today if you earned $1 per minute you would have earned:

$1M since late June 2024
$10M since May 2007
$100M since April 1836
$1B since January 125AD (the height of the Roman empire)

$833B (Elon Musk's current net worth) since 1,581,778 BC (prior to homo sapiens existing)

#OpenSeasonOnBillionaires #Greed #Ethics #TheWorstAmongstUs #MorallyBankrupt #UBI #UniversalBasicIncome

As of today if you earned $1 per minute you would have earned:

$1M since late June 2024
$10M since May 2007
$100M since April 1836
$1B since January 125AD (the height of the Roman empire)

$833B (Elon Musk's current net worth) since 1,581,778 BC (prior to homo sapiens existing)

#OpenSeasonOnBillionaires #Greed #Ethics #TheWorstAmongstUs #MorallyBankrupt #UBI #UniversalBasicIncome

Obscure Reasons for the UBI

The usual reasons for a UBI are:

1) lifting people out of poverty
2) less administration
3) universal coverage, with simple rules

This article describes 10 more reasons that seldom get attention:

https://tiereddemocraticgovernance.org/blog_details.php?blog_cat_id=28&id=370

#tiereddemocraticgovernance
#universalbasicincome

Obscure Reasons for the UBI

The usual reasons for a UBI are:

1) lifting people out of poverty
2) less administration
3) universal coverage, with simple rules

This article describes 10 more reasons that seldom get attention:

https://tiereddemocraticgovernance.org/blog_details.php?blog_cat_id=28&id=370

#tiereddemocraticgovernance
#universalbasicincome

Canada is Already a Partial UBI

But we can't say that socialist phrase:

https://tiereddemocraticgovernance.org/blog_details.php?blog_cat_id=28&id=426

#tiereddemocraticgovernance
#universalbasicincome

Canada is Already a Partial UBI

But we can't say that socialist phrase:

https://tiereddemocraticgovernance.org/blog_details.php?blog_cat_id=28&id=426

#tiereddemocraticgovernance
#universalbasicincome

Person switches from moderate right to far left by doing absolutely NOTHING

#politics #uspol #socialist #communist #marxist #ubi #universalbasicincome #meme #memes #funny

Person switches from moderate right to far left by doing absolutely NOTHING

#politics #uspol #socialist #communist #marxist #ubi #universalbasicincome #meme #memes #funny

#USpol #UBI #UniversalBasicIncome

#USpol #UBI #UniversalBasicIncome

via @[email protected] #USpol #UBI #UniversalBasicIncome

via @[email protected] #USpol #UBI #UniversalBasicIncome

Beating Capitalism: 16-Hour Workweek, AI for People & Medicare for All Explained

Capitalism is failing working people. Explore solutions like job guarantees, public AI, and universal healthcare to build a fair economy.

Beating Capitalism: 16-Hour Workweek, AI for People & Medicare for All Explained

Capitalism is failing working people. Explore solutions like job guarantees, public AI, and universal healthcare to build a fair economy.

Reminder:
We will meet online tomorrow at 16:00 UTC to talk about how Universal Basic Income can counteract the current divide between rich versus poor.

Join us and share your opinion 🤓

Event details
🗓️ Date: 5th May 2026, Tuesday
⏰ Time: 16:00 UTC (check your time zone)
📍 Location: Online @ https://meet.jit.si/UBI4ME_Community_Event_May_2026

#UniversalBasicIncome #UBI #UBI4ME #Taxtherich #socialjustice

Reminder:
We will meet online tomorrow at 16:00 UTC to talk about how Universal Basic Income can counteract the current divide between rich versus poor.

Join us and share your opinion 🤓

Event details
🗓️ Date: 5th May 2026, Tuesday
⏰ Time: 16:00 UTC (check your time zone)
📍 Location: Online @ https://meet.jit.si/UBI4ME_Community_Event_May_2026

#UniversalBasicIncome #UBI #UBI4ME #Taxtherich #socialjustice

Keeping Screwups out of the Workforce

They are hard on the economy:

https://tiereddemocraticgovernance.org/blog_details.php?blog_cat_id=19&id=186

#tiereddemocraticgovernance
#universalbasicincome

Keeping Screwups out of the Workforce

They are hard on the economy:

https://tiereddemocraticgovernance.org/blog_details.php?blog_cat_id=19&id=186

#tiereddemocraticgovernance
#universalbasicincome

@johannab

That Kitchener UBI consultation may have been in regards to the Provincial UBI plan, perhaps to get Kitchener included. This was January 2017 when provincial Liberals were still planning the UBI pilot. But the provincial UBI plan went only to Hamilton/Brantford, Lindsay, and Thunder Bay (not Kitchener/Waterloo), and was cancelled when the Conservatives came to power in 2018.

@scottsantens.com

#UniversalBasicIncome #UBI #ONpoli #Kitchener

@johannab

That Kitchener UBI consultation may have been in regards to the Provincial UBI plan, perhaps to get Kitchener included. This was January 2017 when provincial Liberals were still planning the UBI pilot. But the provincial UBI plan went only to Hamilton/Brantford, Lindsay, and Thunder Bay (not Kitchener/Waterloo), and was cancelled when the Conservatives came to power in 2018.

@scottsantens.com

#UniversalBasicIncome #UBI #ONpoli #Kitchener

@scottsantens.com
@johannab

At a Basic Income consultation for the City of Kitchener a few years ago, the people who would benefit most from #UBI (or #NIT) decided that NIT was not the way to disburse a Guaranteed Income: The tax system is too slow to respond to changing economec needs.

I was askes to present the results from our group: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SAOKSCvNBWw&t=30

Sadly, there was never any action on Basic Income in #Kitchener.

#UniversalBasicIncome

@scottsantens.com
@johannab

At a Basic Income consultation for the City of Kitchener a few years ago, the people who would benefit most from #UBI (or #NIT) decided that NIT was not the way to disburse a Guaranteed Income: The tax system is too slow to respond to changing economec needs.

I was askes to present the results from our group: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SAOKSCvNBWw&t=30

Sadly, there was never any action on Basic Income in #Kitchener.

#UniversalBasicIncome

@johannab

That's a good question. I've been a proponent of a "Universal Livable Income" in order to really decouple the need for working-for-income with basic survival. But that's more difficult to defend against the "causes inflation", "no-one will ever work", and "where will the money come from" crowds. Not to mention the "they don't deserve it" crowd.

@scottsantens.com @narF

#UniversalBasicIncome #UBI #UniversalLivableIncome

@johannab

That's a good question. I've been a proponent of a "Universal Livable Income" in order to really decouple the need for working-for-income with basic survival. But that's more difficult to defend against the "causes inflation", "no-one will ever work", and "where will the money come from" crowds. Not to mention the "they don't deserve it" crowd.

@scottsantens.com @narF

#UniversalBasicIncome #UBI #UniversalLivableIncome

@johannab

Glad you did engage in that #UBI dust-up.

The beauty of a well-implemented UBI system is its simplicity, and lack of demeaning means-testing.

There have been plenty of UBI pilots (and several actual implementations), none of which show any evidence of UBI-caused inflation.

In comparison, government distribution of goods and services is more akin to the worst parts of state-run comminism.

#UniversalBasicIncome

I’m pro capitalism, but AI might make socialism unavoidable

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://nerds.xyz/2026/04/ai-socialism-capitalism/

I’m pro capitalism, but AI might make socialism unavoidable

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://nerds.xyz/2026/04/ai-socialism-capitalism/

I guarantee you that everyone that whinges their bootlicking talking points when you bring up taxing the rich would gladly accept UBI checks from that exact tax policy if it happens.

#TaxTheRich #NoMoreBillionaires #UniversalBasicIncome

I've been following @scottsantens for years as he's probably the greatest advocate for #UniversalBasicIncome out there, and this essay is one of the best he's written

#UBI

https://www.scottsantens.com/the-angine-de-poitrine-argument-for-ubi/