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Yes, we must fight for UBI. It's not going to just be handed to us.
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"Borrowing" isn't the best term to use to describe the issuance of Treasury securities.
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Democracy redistributed power in the age of kings. Universal basic income and healthcare will redistribute power in the age of billionaires. We must fight for and win both UBI and M4A, and we must tax wealth.
For democracy to survive, we must decouple survival from working for the owner class.
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MAID should exist, doctors should not be allowed to bring it up, the provinces need to increase social benefits, and the federal government needs to get going with its UBI promise is basically my stance.
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Most people would be just as responsible and creative as you with UBI.
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UBI is a must-win and yes it will save us from the worst happening. It will also empower us to demand and get even more. Being anti-UBI is foolish. Do you really want to be in the company of anti-democracy billionaires?
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That's not what UBI is. It's not a conservative invention. Dr. King was for it. And if it's so conservative, why are conservative billionaires trying to ban it in every state they can?
We all need money to live and it should not be withheld on the condition we do what the owner class wants. Period.
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Here's some reading:
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UBI is better though.
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I really need to read this one.
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People are not "generally bad with free money" and UBI studies back that up.
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An argument to consider:
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This all ends when we say, "enough" and then proceed to:
1. Tax the Rich
2. Provide free college
3. Ensure livable wages
4. Pass Medicare for All
5. Offer universal basic income as the majority of jobs are lost to technology.
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Yes, it can and does work.
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This is the way.
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Basic income is a human right too, regardless of AI, but especially because of AI. The fight needs to be for universal basic income and healthcare. The combination of the two would also maximize cost savings because so much medical care goes to treating the downstream effects of a lack of money.
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To this day so much misinformation about Yang continues. It's sad to see. His proposal did not replace anything. It only didn't stack on top of 4 programs: TANF, SNAP, WIC, SSI. Those programs would have continued and people would choose them or UBI, whichever was higher. It was meant as no harm.
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No matter who supports it or opposes it, UBI is a good idea regardless, with a mountain of evidence behind it, in a world where we urgently need to reduce inequality and chronic mass insecurity.
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There are lots of things that need doing, and that could help. UBI would be huge, as would Universal Healthcare! Obviously revamping the whole Disability system would be wonderful! Remove the marriage restrictions, the bank limits!
Or, if you can, just help a Disabled person out!
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Oh I’d certainly concede basic healthcare should be socialized. UBI is looking better and better. Regulated capitalism married to a robust social welfare state has proven to be the closest thing we have to a winning formula, no?
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Meanwhile, AI is already being used to reduce entry level jobs, and I'm sure he doesn't care about that at all.
We need universal basic income just to end this nonsense about "proving we matter" via jobs. UBI is how to get more agency into our lives.
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I expect misinformation and disinformation about UBI to ramp up, while simultaneously, the MAGA base starts calling for UBI without calling it UBI. Like the DOGE dividend checks they got all excited about.
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Yep!
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This could also work in a world where we actually had a universal basic income instead of funneling nearly all of the productivity gains into the coffers of a small number of extremely wealthy people, but that's rather more to chew on.
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Expect to see the already lacking diversity in the information technology industry exacerbate.
Since the rich have chosen to use automation efficiency gains to hoard wealth instead of creating new jobs, the only remaining logical solution is billionaire taxes and #UBI.
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A strong democracy in the age of AI needs universal basic income and wealth taxes.