Gregory's ServerOf all the reasons to endorse Universal Basic Income, mental wellbeing is often overlooked. Imagine fewer people acting out of desperation and frustration. UBI has the power to alleviate stress and foster a more compassionate society. Turn down the suffering, turn up the empathy.
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Universal basic income mitigates tunneling, meaning that people are more able to think beyond just one focus. The need to earn survival income tends to function like blinders that block out everything else but your focus on basic needs. Until they're obtained, it's difficult to think beyond.
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 Abused people abuse people. This is the foundation upon which #concervitave politics are built. All of their policy decisions are made around this blinder effect you mention. Will it make more traumatized people? Will it traumatize my opponents more than my base? We can't have parachutes, pilots will just fly recklessly. We can't have seat belts; they'll just cause more car accidents. We can't water the plants, they'll just grow dependent on water. We can't have unconditional basic income, people will just stop working. ALL OF THESE CLAIMS ARE STUPID
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 @scottsantens Every study I've read about UBI has had good results. Healthcare costs went down because people were able to eat better, and were able to access healthcare services earlier and have better and cheaper outcomes because of it. Fewer homeless people remained homeless, adding to the stability of their lives which contributed to their health and job security. People kept working, missing fewer days of work. People were more entrepreneurial and so actually managed to create jobs. Individuals who received the $1,000/mo or $500/mo payments were more likely to find a stable, full-time job than before they received the basic income. Results also showed 45% of participants secured housing, while $589,214 was saved in public service costs. "It's freedom. It's freedom from poverty..."
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 @scottsantens If you're always struggling to find your next meal you've NO time to job hunt and interview and crap. If you are already homeless I have no idea what you do--I've never been in that situation. Not for real anyway. I've been without address before though and that's already a huge pita.  Has there ever been a UBI experiment that DIDN'T end with a similar result? If there is, I've never heard about it.
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@scottsantens Yes you didn’t call it UBI. This scheme looks like just better social security like many countries already have. It is not a UBI scheme.   @scottsantens These pilot projects shows that #UBI will solve this main puzzle of money: you need money to get or earn money.  @scottsantens Reflect on this - if we eradicated poverty by constructing a #basicincome floor, think of the ripple effects. We would reduce crime rates, improve health outcomes, and even boost our economy as people gain the ability to spend more. UBI isn't charity; it's a high ROI investment.
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@scottsantens in a sane world absolutely, except the deathcult plan is to kill as many people as possible to hope to survive in a post-climate world. #Malthusian theory is not new, but it is the majority thinking amongst the psychopaths 1% that have pillaged half of the world’s wealth. The only way for them to continue living with their privileges is to wipe out the rest of us. Unless we treat them for the threat that they are, we are doomed.  @scottsantens People also miss the entrepreneurial facet. Think of all the startups that have a better chance to succeed because the founders aren't struggling to find enough money to eat. If just a fraction of those succeed and become viable businesses, there is a net economic gain and even more ROI. @scottsantens Poverty shouldn't exist. For anyone. Ever. Too often I hear 'No one with a job should live in poverty.' True. But let's go further. No one should live in poverty, job or not. Jobs should be a ticket to more than just survival. Think thriving, not surviving; buying fun, not life.
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 @scottsantens yes! @scottsantens (But I understand that you are campaigning for UBI and that is obviously based on money... - as a Swiss voter, I'm still angry at the electorate for missing their once in a lifetime opportunity) |
@scottsantens I learned something horrible this election cycle -- that some conservatives are willing to block or approve things with no regard how it hurts themselves, as long as it hurts *others* more. Their goal is to always make sure someone is below them.
From this perspective it seems unlikely that such a thing would easily pass in the US because it blurs the lines of the imagined classes. Seems like yet another reason to add to the list of "why we can't have nice things"...
@scottsantens This is no joke. Imagine how many potential Einsteins out there never we lost. Among all the various "Einstein worked in the patent office" and etc comments, we often forget he was actually fairly well to-do and had the freedom to choose the job that suited what he wanted (a boring simple job that let him think about other things while he worked.)
How many cures for cancer have been lost because the person who would have invented them works crap jobs and then collapses at night?
@scottsantens imagine if the people who end up in jail today for petty theft costing tax payers millions instead had enough basic income to eat and be sheltered costing mere thousands.