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Universal Healthcare, Unconditional Basic Income, AI Dividend! "All watched over by machines of loving grace."

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Pete Buttigieg says citizens should get a share of the value created by AI, like a dividend. "Why shouldn't we all get a share? Instead of it all going to a tiny handful of super wealthy people." UBI from tech funded by taxpayers.

submitted 17 days ago • 5 comments

ok but for real if you want to make a really good indie (or AA) games the number one way is "be financially comfortable via other means" blue prince guy owned a popular website generating income, toby fox was a successful musician... frankly if we had a UBI youd get SO MANY GOOD GAMES

submitted 18 days ago • 32 comments

I've spent the last half year investigating the nefarious interests behind the anti-AI Backlash. The results were surprising.

submitted 27 days ago • 241 comments

The focus should be on implementing stuff like UBI, not trying to fruitlessly put stuff back in Pandora's Box. We should've had UBI even before all of this, and it's even more important now.

submitted 60 days ago • 0 comments

I'm so sick of billionaires talking about how they're going to eliminate jobs without also talking about how badly we need universal basic income and what they're personally doing to make it happen as soon as possible. They already owe us restitution for decades of unshared productivity growth.

submitted 62 days ago • 4 comments

It is no coincidence that so much of the US is poor, and the rich have gotten so rich. Stop looking down to find someone to blame. Stop looking at your neighbors to find someone to blame. LOOK UP. Inequality is destroying us.

submitted 77 days ago • 156 comments

About those $5,000 "DOGE dividend" checks, if they actually happen, they're going to be more like <$200, and that's per household not per person, and none will go to the bottom 40% of households, which includes at least a third of all Trump voters. This is not even close to a UBI.

submitted 96 days ago • 6 comments

My biggest argument for UBI is to just think of a world in which our survival needs are no longer locked behind labor. Less people trapped in abusive relationships. Less scamming as people don't need to wheel and deal for money to survive. Think of what we could create together

submitted 100 days ago • 1 comment

As a disabled person, my life would be infinitely better with #UBI. The reason we don't get it is not because it doesn't work but because it does work It threatens the power base of the wealthy elite. It undermines their ability to abuse their employees.

submitted 101 days ago • 0 comments

A big justification for universal basic income is that if the real median wage had grown as much as productivity grew over this same period of time, all three lines would be near $50 per hour. UBI can be seen as a GDP dividend. Wages will never fairly distribute GDP growth. UBI can do it directly.

submitted 111 days ago • 6 comments

Stop it. Enough. The tests for deservedness are wasteful and stigma-creating. No one cares what wealthy people do with all their passive income. Just provide universal basic income as a universal floor. Treat the poor and middle class like the rich. Let jobs increase total income. End welfare traps.

submitted 111 days ago • 7 comments

If you are a supporter of UBI, this thread is worth reading. I use to have my reservation about this, but the more I read and the facts I see about it, it's clear, UBI is not just about dignity but economic growth as well. #UBI #UniversalBasicIncome

submitted 118 days ago • 1 comment

Enough dystopia. Just do universal basic income and tax the rich. Stop coming with ways of determining the deserving. Provide universally and tax those with high incomes more than they get. Done.

submitted 122 days ago • 2 comments

Stories like these are only going to become more & more commonplace from now on! We NEED to DEMAND an AI Dividend for All or UBI, NOW! AI exists thanks to a societal quantity of data collected from all of us, so it owes us all a return on that data-investment. If we don't, our economy will collapse.

submitted 126 days ago • 0 comments

Universal Basic Income and Universal Healthcare [and that includes dentistry wtf]. For EVERYONE. If you exist, you deserve these basic fucking needs met. Think about how much progress we could make as a society if these simple needs were met.

submitted 148 days ago • 1 comment

Yes, please! I want UBI more than almost any other social safety net. I mean, I want them all, yes, but UBI would be an absolute god-send for me. It would single-handedly solve my biggest stressors and enable my creativity like never before. I crave UBI.

submitted 152 days ago • 1 comment