“Basic income is not a utopian dream. It is a practical solution whose time has arrived—we need to ensure it becomes a reality.”

The article references the Mincome trial fifty years ago in Dauphin, Manitoba, where a basic income pilot showed positive results. I was a teenager living there at the time. I’m as not hopeful as the author of this article that basic income will become policy in what’s left of my lifetime.

#BasicIncome #UBI #canpoli #cdnpoli

https://rabble.ca/columnists/basic-income-in-canada-is-closer-than-you-think/

“Basic income is not a utopian dream. It is a practical solution whose time has arrived—we need to ensure it becomes a reality.”

The article references the Mincome trial fifty years ago in Dauphin, Manitoba, where a basic income pilot showed positive results. I was a teenager living there at the time. I’m as not hopeful as the author of this article that basic income will become policy in what’s left of my lifetime.

#BasicIncome #UBI #canpoli #cdnpoli

https://rabble.ca/columnists/basic-income-in-canada-is-closer-than-you-think/

RE: https://stranger.social/@lednaBM/115718877275566120

It's weird how every time someone runs a UBI or GBI test like this, it always turns out positive. Like, I *never* see headlines saying "UBI Trial in Bumfucksburg, West Idaho Fails to Achieve Goals".

They always work, never fail.

It's almost like they're a good idea and we should move past the "trial" stage, hmm? 🤔

#UBI #UniversalBasicIncome #BasicUniversalIncome #GuaranteedBasicIncome #poverty

@Researchbuzz

Every single UBI experiment I've ever read about (and I've read about dozens!) comes to that same conclusion, that UBI doesn't stop people from working.

Along with the conclusions that UBI is cheaper for society than 'fixing' the problems created by poverty, that UBI boosts the economy, that UBI encourages entrepreneurs, that UBI makes people happy.

#UBI #UniversalBasicIncome

#work #money #UBI #Canada

'Classic economic theory assumes low-income people would stop working if governments gave them money as a strategy to reduce poverty.

New research co-authored by a Cornell expert in industrial relations challenges that assumption...'

https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2025/12/how-free-money-helped-low-income-workers-stay-employed

New article from me today about the new study of Finland's basic income experiment that found recipients of unconditional income had 33% better mental health than the control group that got the same amount of money with conditions. I also dive into a lot of other evidence about #UBI and mental health.

https://open.substack.com/pub/scottsantens/p/finland-basic-income-experiment-mental-health-ubi?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&shareImageVariant=overlay&r=avhi

New article from me today about the new study of Finland's basic income experiment that found recipients of unconditional income had 33% better mental health than the control group that got the same amount of money with conditions. I also dive into a lot of other evidence about #UBI and mental health.

https://open.substack.com/pub/scottsantens/p/finland-basic-income-experiment-mental-health-ubi?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&shareImageVariant=overlay&r=avhi

New article from me in response to Eduardo Porter's article in The Guardian where he built a straw man of universal basic income to light on fire again, just as he did back in 2016, showing he's learned nothing new about #UBI in a decade but is still happy to opine about it.

https://open.substack.com/pub/scottsantens/p/the-universal-basic-income-ubi-strawman-never-dies-eduardo-porter?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=avhi

Universal basic income will reduce crime. That crime didn't go down in the Finland pilot does not disprove that, and it definitely doesn't disprove the causation of crime by poverty, nor support the eugenics view that crime is in the genes like Elon appears to grossly believe.

https://scottsantens.substack.com/p/elon-musk-is-wrong-about-universal-basic-income-ubi-and-crime #UBI

RE: https://stranger.social/@lednaBM/115718877275566120

It's weird how every time someone runs a UBI or GBI test like this, it always turns out positive. Like, I *never* see headlines saying "UBI Trial in Bumfucksburg, West Idaho Fails to Achieve Goals".

They always work, never fail.

It's almost like they're a good idea and we should move past the "trial" stage, hmm? 🤔

#UBI #UniversalBasicIncome #BasicUniversalIncome #GuaranteedBasicIncome #poverty

Universal basic income will reduce crime. That crime didn't go down in the Finland pilot does not disprove that, and it definitely doesn't disprove the causation of crime by poverty, nor support the eugenics view that crime is in the genes like Elon appears to grossly believe.

https://scottsantens.substack.com/p/elon-musk-is-wrong-about-universal-basic-income-ubi-and-crime #UBI

@Researchbuzz

Every single UBI experiment I've ever read about (and I've read about dozens!) comes to that same conclusion, that UBI doesn't stop people from working.

Along with the conclusions that UBI is cheaper for society than 'fixing' the problems created by poverty, that UBI boosts the economy, that UBI encourages entrepreneurs, that UBI makes people happy.

#UBI #UniversalBasicIncome

#work #money #UBI #Canada

'Classic economic theory assumes low-income people would stop working if governments gave them money as a strategy to reduce poverty.

New research co-authored by a Cornell expert in industrial relations challenges that assumption...'

https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2025/12/how-free-money-helped-low-income-workers-stay-employed

De rijkste 0,001 procent van de wereld (dat zijn zo’n 60.000 mensen) bezit drie keer zoveel als de armste helft van de mensheid. Dat blijkt uit het World Inequality Report 2026.

Omdat arme landen meer rente moeten betalen dan rijkere landen als ze leningen afsluiten, stroomt jaarlijks 1 procent van het wereldwijde bnp van arm naar rijk. Ter vergelijking: dat is drie keer zoveel als er wordt uitgegeven aan ontwikkelingssamenwerking.

https://www.bnnvara.nl/joop/artikelen/rijkste-0001-bezit-drie-keer-zoveel-als-de-armste-helft-van-de-mensheid

#ongelijkheid #onrecht #UBI

De rijkste 0,001 procent van de wereld (dat zijn zo’n 60.000 mensen) bezit drie keer zoveel als de armste helft van de mensheid. Dat blijkt uit het World Inequality Report 2026.

Omdat arme landen meer rente moeten betalen dan rijkere landen als ze leningen afsluiten, stroomt jaarlijks 1 procent van het wereldwijde bnp van arm naar rijk. Ter vergelijking: dat is drie keer zoveel als er wordt uitgegeven aan ontwikkelingssamenwerking.

https://www.bnnvara.nl/joop/artikelen/rijkste-0001-bezit-drie-keer-zoveel-als-de-armste-helft-van-de-mensheid

#ongelijkheid #onrecht #UBI

New video up! This one is a special guest episode with James Felton Keith who is running for US Congress in NY's 13th district with universal basic income as a key part of his "We Owe Us" platform. Whose work trained AI? Ours did. All of us. Data is labor. #UBI

https://youtu.be/ULY56xVRwgQ?si=CCymNraPdf44YHuT