When someone mentions UBI you think of AI? Weird. Why not think about human rights? Or Martin Luther King Jr? Or ending poverty and how great that would be?

I like that idea, but let's take it a step further. What if we had like a BASIC INCOME for all of our UNIVERSAL needs? Just a thought.

Under the government UBI system? Would you ever describe seniors as being under the Social Security system? Like it's a bad thing?

Furthermore there is no moral justification for forcing anyone to work for someone else's profit and receive only a wage in return. Rather, everyone ought to receive their keep. The time for universal basic income was 50 years ago, but we might as well start now.

LVT would not force anyone from their homes. What is due is due at point of ownership transfer. And they propose additional top-ups for various groups, not just UBI. Sucks to see so much misinfo.

I've been saying this for months. At one of the last Liberal conventions under Trudeau, they passed a resolution to look at implementing a UBI nationally. And it was ranked as high as #2 in their order of priority. It was coming. This is yet another reason the millionaires wanted PMJT gone.

It's the correct view.

I saw the afterburner but couldn't tell what it was. Loud as shit though.

Agreed. Very interesting to read these.

This is a really interesting collection of reactions

On a related note, it's perhaps pretty fucked up that one of the best years of my life was 2020. Because my state suspended the rules about needing to look for work while collecting unemployment, so I spent the year getting Basic Income and actually getting to do the things I wanted to with my time.

"Tax our wealth and provide basic income and we'll all leave and everyone will stop working," says the person with way too much wealth who never stops wanting more more more more more.

I'm not an "AI accelerationist" and MLK advocated UBI: