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
joene 🏴🍉
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I really hate the way certain foreigners praise the dutch welfare system (looking at you, USians) when I'm getting frustrated and exhausted navigating the gauntlet of my son turning 18 and me being on below social minimum sickness benefits.
Nothing in our situation has changed but I'm spending hours reading, researching and filling out forms about information that is in their databases anyway.
Especially with the concentration problems from Long Covid.
Woozle Hypertwin
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New article from me about the Marshall Islands becoming the first country with a Universal Basic Income, what the details are, how it came to be, and what may come next.
Side note: It's hard to express how big a deal this is, especially for me personally. I hope this is the first of many dominoes.
https://open.substack.com/pub/scottsantens/p/marshall-islands-just-implemented-ubi?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web #UBI #BasicIncome
Are you someone who's uncomfortable with homeless shelters or encampments near your home/work/kid's school/parent's longterm care home?
Here's the answer to ending homelessness that you've been looking for:
Universal Basic Income & Guaranteed Low Cost Housing
No one chooses to live on the street. And no, choosing the street over a worse option is not actually choosing the street.
UBI provides every person with the money they need to survive, and low cost housing puts them literally in a place where they can begin a new life.
Opposing UBI while complaining about homeless people is like opposing abortion and also opposing contraception. Both positions are like complaining about the snow in the house while refusing to shut the doors and windows.
(Yeah, I know that tooting this on Mastodon is preaching to the choir, but I had to vent.)
New article from me about the Marshall Islands becoming the first country with a Universal Basic Income, what the details are, how it came to be, and what may come next.
Side note: It's hard to express how big a deal this is, especially for me personally. I hope this is the first of many dominoes.
https://open.substack.com/pub/scottsantens/p/marshall-islands-just-implemented-ubi?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web #UBI #BasicIncome
I really hate the way certain foreigners praise the dutch welfare system (looking at you, USians) when I'm getting frustrated and exhausted navigating the gauntlet of my son turning 18 and me being on below social minimum sickness benefits.
Nothing in our situation has changed but I'm spending hours reading, researching and filling out forms about information that is in their databases anyway.
Especially with the concentration problems from Long Covid.
We aren’t built to carry 8 billion people in our heads at all times. If every country had universal basic income, we could focus on our own lives and communities without feeling like someone else’s poverty is our fault for not doing more.
#UBI makes care scalable.
One thing about universal basic income is that if a population of 340 million people get it, it's not one program but 340 million programs, and all with extremely low practically zero administrative overhead.
This is also why cash should be seen as a vital component of universal basic services. #UBI
A universal basic income should be equal for everyone in a country regardless of where they live. States and cities are welcome to provide their own local boosts to stack on top of the national #UBI but the federal government should not provide a larger UBI to a place like NYC than Gary, IN.
@Remittancegirl This may not be very responsive, feel free to treat it as such.
My beef with "artists" is that conventionally many of them were products of extreme privilege.
E.g. I'm (now) a Mainer, the Wyeths do stunningly beautiful work but they roamed Chadds Ford and the Maine coast because they were independently wealthy. I *hear* that the alive ones have expressed some odious political views, that does not bode well for their ancestors.
I know that's not (just) what you mean by "art".
@CartyBoston @Remittancegirl could it be that there is art in all of us, but only financial security allows it to flourish? #ubi
From our newest episode of The Basic Income Show, a quick summary of the huge 2-year UBI experiment that South Korea is launching for 250,000 people across 7 rural counties. #UBI
New episode of The Basic Income Show! We discuss: the huge rural basic income pilot in South Korea, the bill in the US Congress for a national basic income experiment, the results of 2 more basic income experiments, and the conversation @ZackPolanski had with @RichardJMurphy. #UBI
🇪🇺 Europe for Culture. Culture for Europe.
Culture connects us, strengthens communities, and sparks creativity and innovation.
We’re launching a new vision for Europe’s cultural future:
🎨 Fair conditions for artists
🌍 Greater cultural access for all generations
🤝 Stronger international partnerships
💡 A creative sector ready for the digital age
Culture keeps Europe strong, diverse & united.
When Europe stands for culture, culture stands for Europe.
As an artist I'd like to know, if this @EUCommission announcement means that you're considering to implement the #UBI model (for artist) from #Ireland, or not?
Since you didn't drop the #artists name and source of the #vector #illustration, may I ask if there was a #European human being involved in this creation? It's not just #aiSlob, isn't it?
alcinnz
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New article in USA Today published today about universal basic income that I was interviewed for by its author. #UBI
New article in USA Today published today about universal basic income that I was interviewed for by its author. #UBI
New article in USA Today published today about universal basic income that I was interviewed for by its author. #UBI
We need universal basic income for many reasons, but one that is perhaps the most important right now is how much it would strengthen democracy. Universalism is cohesive. Unconditionality grows trust. More access to resources and less instability means more civic participation and govt satisfaction. #UBI
Imaging trusting in -- and investing in -- your fellow citizens. It works. https://archive.is/X4nZx
![Since 2019, Burrow and his researchers have selected about 1,200 college and high school students to receive $400 no-strings “contributions” to use “to pursue what matters most” to them — something that benefits their community, family or even themselves. Before awarding the funds (eligible recipients are selected randomly, not on the merits of their proposals), he tests all applicants based on standard measures of well-being and emotions. Six to eight weeks after awarding the $400 — the time during which the recipients have to make their contributions — he again tests those who received the funds and those who didn’t. https://contributionproject.org/
The preliminary results, which Burrow has just begun to present in academic conferences and shared publicly here for the first time, are unambiguous. At the start, both groups typically scored the same on psychological measures. Eight weeks later, those who received the contributions scored significantly higher than the non-recipients on all measures: latent well-being, sense of purpose, sense of belonging, sense of feeling needed and useful, and affective balance (a measure of positive and negative emotions).
Burrow’s takeaway: “Invite people to think about a contribution they want to make and help them [to] make that contribution, and that person may walk around with greater purpose than if they hadn’t done that.”](https://media.infosec.exchange/infosec.exchange/media_attachments/files/115/442/259/565/635/736/original/1f9b63e29e6929d1.png)
Jonathan Schofield
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Meanwhile in Ireland, a cultural Basic Income (focussed on artists) has moved from pilot to sustained policy, with the confirmation of an ongoing programme of awarding 2,000 artists €18k per annum.
Interestingly the cost of the programme was less than the benefits to the Irish economy, and the artists in receipt of funds were able to switch earnings from non-art activities to work related to their art practice.
A more general lesson here for UBI?
#UBI #workers
https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/ireland-basic-income-artists-program-permanent-1234756981/
alcinnz
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In this clip I talk about a recent first-of-its-kind study showing that high inequality can negatively impact kids' brain development, such that a kid in a high income family can be impacted as if they were in poverty, if in a high inequality environment.
Reducing inequality is a health imperative. #UBI #taxwealth