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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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Investment Executive on one of the best investments Canada can ever make. A guaranteed livable basic income.
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RT @floydmarinescu: Texas and Alaska both have policies that broadly share publicly created wealth. Texas uses land/natural resource wealt….
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RT @SteveLawrence_: Back in 1966 my Dad was awarded an MBE for his work on introducing Automatic Data Processing to @BritishArmy Logistics.….
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RT @birthpolitics: It's GREAT to let robots do the work; just don't let the capitalists pocket the displaced workers' salaries & benefits!.
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WSJ: ". one Stretch robot that DHL staff named 'Johnny 5' unloads around 580 cases an hour, almost twice the rate of a human unloader.". As machines replace human labour, UBI is how we ensure people aren't left behind. It's economic infrastructure for the AI era.
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Some things in life are worth the investment. Guaranteed economic security is one of them.
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RT @BIUKTradeUnions: When the "Godfather of AI" says UBI is a good start, we should listen. As AI transforms work, #BasicIncome must be pa….
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RT @ubi_works: Yang was right about automation and UBI years ago. "not just displacing us just from work, but displacing us altogether 100….
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Geoffrey Hinton won a Nobel Prize for his AI work. When asked on the Diary of a CEO what we should do about AI wiping out jobs, his response to UBI as part of the solution: "I think that's a good start.".
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Learn more about Canada's Senate Bill S-206 for Guaranteed Livable Basic Income.
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Learn about Canada's Senate Bill S-206 for Guaranteed Livable Basic Income by Senator Kim Pate
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Senator Kim Pate DESTROYS myth #1 that basic income is untested. Lists 10 working basic income programs in Canada.
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Anyone who's concerned about Canada future as a free, productive society should read this.
The recent housing report by Realosophy President John Pasalis is a masterclass on speaking the truth, when financial & political forces keep most housing 'experts' quiet. "Canada has built an economy where the best way to get rich isn’t to invent, create, or build anything—it’s
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