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Basic income has already worked for decades. Guaranteed basic income lowers poverty, like child/senior benefits. UBI shares common resources, like Alaska's oil dividend. Critics usually ignore this and debate their own strawman instead. 🧵
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RT @floydmarinescu: This is just one story out of a much larger business trend. The point of technology is to do more with less. Eventually….
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Rogers laid off 1000+ agents after hellish work conditions. "they needed us to train the AI and were strategically plotting our demise of replacing us". "expected to work non-stop talking back to back calls like a robot" (12 sec breaks max). UBI is bargaining power and security.
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RT @CommonWealth_ca: Eric Lombardi today in @TheHubCanada saying what most housing commentators won't. "If freedom no longer includes the r….
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RT @floydmarinescu: "A land value tax would rebalance the system. It would reward improvement, not hoarding. It would turn ownership into a….
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RT @CommonWealth_ca: 28 vacant homes for every homeless person. There's no amount of housing we could build that would fix this, while inve….
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RT @CommonWealth_ca: "A modest land value tax would make it less profitable for investors to outbid families to buy and hold existing homes….
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Canada needs more housing in the places where people need to work and want to live. Implementing a land value tax will incentivize such development.
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RT @scottsantens: It's funny to see entirely made-up news about universal basic income that would be amazing if it were true. Unfortunately….
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RT @natalieben: I was just asked to write a few words about #UniversalBasicIncome. This is what I came up with. @UBILabNetwork @scottsanten….
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Yes really.
Prime Minister Mark Carney didn’t say “basic income.” But he made the case for it. AI is hollowing out the middle class and lowering wages. Like past tech revolutions, workers may not see the benefits for generations. Here's what he said.🧵.
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He made the case for UBI, without saying it. Leading AI visionaries are pretty much unanimous on this.
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Basic income can strengthen BC's economy, while ending poverty.
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RT @kimmonismus: AI Is Coming for the Consultants. Inside McKinsey, ‘This Is Existential.’. The fear of irrelevance and job loss is now rea….
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One of silicon valley's brightest minds on UBI. Everyone should be able to participate in the upside of AI
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RT @scottsantens: AI is already replacing thousands of jobs each month as the U.S. job market struggles amid global trade uncertainty, a re….
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Letter from a supporter to Canadian PM candidates. Working families deserve greater income security.
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