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Conrad Shaw - all things #UBI. Projects: @bootstrapsTV @comingler1 @ITSAfoundation @UBIcalculator
New York, NY
Joined March 2017
Hey UBI fans, can you go to the link in the next comment and vote for @comingler1 to present at SXSW next year? Could be a big deal in helping with a bigger, faster rollout. Appreciate ya!.
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RT @theUBIguy: You give UBI to everybody up front. Even those who don't need it and will just pay it back in extra taxes. You do this bec….
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Are you sure about that? You sound pretty sure. Human nature is actually my primary focus. I've spent almost a decade specifically looking into human behavior, and specifically in the context of a no-strings cash basic income. I believe that you are not just somewhat mistaken.
@theUBIguy You ignore human nature. It's in our evolutionary psychology to be lazy. exerting less labor for the same result is evolutionarily advantageous. All UBI will unleash is a ton of smoking weed & playing video games all day, plus mass inflation.
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Where does Bill's tax money go? It doesn't go to the tens of millions of very real people who can't afford a $400 emergency, I can tell you that. If we had a UBI, though, that's exactly where it would go.
HBO - 8/8/2025 - @billmaher questions the statistic that half of America can't afford a $400 emergency. George F. Will - "That's probably a made up statistic because it serves a political agenda"
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Where does Bill's tax money go? It doesn't go to the tens of millions of very real people who can't afford a $400 emergency, I can tell you that. If we had a UBI, though, that's exactly where at least some of it would go.
HBO - 8/8/2025 - @billmaher questions the statistic that half of America can't afford a $400 emergency. George F. Will - "That's probably a made up statistic because it serves a political agenda"
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"No UBI supporter has ever once addressed [insert question or conspiracy theory that I and other advocates have addressed 400 million times]!" . - every very serious and intellectually honest individual to whom I definitely owe the next three hours of my life to engage in a one.
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UBI = Power to the People.
An important effect of basic income is to reduce poverty, or even abolish it entirely if high enough, but perhaps the most transformative impact it will have as a manifestation of "power to the People" made real, is the vast magnitude of human unleashing it will accomplish.
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"We need to use fear of deep poverty to force people to do undesirable work for insufficient wages.". AKA "I support wage slavery.". How about we pay what those jobs are worth? Then people with UBI will still do them.
@theUBIguy A nut for a wheel seems like a small insignificant part, but the wheel falls off without it. Likewise, various other small parts are seemingly unimportant. Imagine ubi comes along and many choose not to work at the seemingly small jobs. Chaos.
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Funny how often "UBI will make us all slaves to the government" is expressed by the same people who brought us "But if there were UBI, how could we get people to clean our toilets for starvation wages?".
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Here's the episode in which we discuss the @nytimes' travesty of journalistic integrity with their recent article on how "basic income doesn't help kids.".
Episode 20 of The Basic Income Show just dropped. In this one we talked about that ridiculous NYT article that claimed monthly cash doesn't do anything to help poor kids. In response we covered a decades-long natural experiment and a 13-pilot meta-analysis that proves otherwise.
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RT @scottsantens: The @BootstrapsTV docuseries project is something that Emmy award-winning director @deiafilm and @theUBIguy have been wor….
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RT @UBI4ALL_: UBI doesn’t kill ambition, it kills desperation. If your only motivation to work is starvation, that’s not capitalism. That’s….
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RT @scottsantens: Rising inequality is a wicked problem all around the world. It's the main culprit behind eroding democracy. We can't solv….
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RT @scottsantens: This right here is the correct question to be asking. The AI that is reducing the incomes of humans was trained on the da….
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If you like my work, you should give @BootstrapsTV a follow. That's going to be an exciting account to have in your feed in the coming year or two, I promise.
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RT @BootstrapsTV: Catch a sneak peek of BOOTSTRAPS, a docuseries following 11 diverse U.S. households participating in a #UBI experiment, a….
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