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there was no poverty or homelessness in all the americas until the europeans arrived and brought feudalism and enclosure - require(ubi) | opinions
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Joined August 2008
How do you respond to suffering and other peoples problems?
How you respond to someone else suffering i think is the core problem one group responds with showing compassion empathy or understanding solidarity or support another group dismisses, diminishes, gaslights, gatekeeps, ignores, blames etc
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no psychopaths no conflicts of interest ethics advisories on all laws direct democracy on laws no propaganda no laws preventing survival limits on land property ubi lottery on leadership option to delegate voting rights full self sufficient cities basic needs
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Basically the US leadership don’t care about the quality of life of the citizens. They are psychopaths. This is different than other countries that grade their performance (eg, 800 million pulled out of poverty)
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two things that could change everything: - conflict of interest department that removes psychopaths and officials with conflicts of interests - give everyone a ubi and put rent control payment at 20% mortgage payment or tied to 30% of monthly min wage
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Don’t think this will ever reach land lords but they need to lower rents. My studies and others have shown it’s caused massive gentrification and poverty and homelessness. No not individual landlords but collectively. Psychopathic landlords won’t change but for whoever’s left
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The pandemic showed us how vulnerable we are when healthcare and income to survive is tied to employment. Universal Basic Income and Universal Healthcare can provide a safety net for all, ensuring basic needs are a right, not a job benefit. #UBI #UniversalHealthcare #HumanRights
This Oscar-nominated actor lost his health insurance during the pandemic after filming his last movie. How absurd is that? It makes no sense to me, to you, or to anybody else in this country that your ability to see a doctor is treated as a job benefit and not a human right.
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“If the value of land increases in proportion to production (as is seen in Monopoly) all increases in production and increases in technology will be swallowed up by it.” Meaning that there is a loophole (a flaw a leak) to merit, production, to hard work #rent @AltTextUtil ocr
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Speaking on the topic of world views: We all know the Just World world view but I haven’t seen one mention the Game worldview. I think, but won’t say, if psychopaths or the ultra wealthy or even the “haves” had a world view it might be this. Thoughts?
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Dominionism & Domestication: The History of Animal Exploitation Tickets, Thu, Apr 6, 2023 at 12:00 PM | Eventbrite
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Author Jim Mason explore the roots and history that lead to today's exploitation of domesticated animals
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“Hey Sitting Bull” “Yes, Owl Wing?” “How many seasons have we had no poverty & no homelessness living at one with nature?” “At least 1 million cycles?” “Cool cool” “Hey what’s that thing floating on the water towards us?” “It looks like a large canoe”
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It feels like tipping has become a way to show care or solidarity to workers but it also feels like it shows lack of care from employers for not paying workers enough to survive. And it feels like business are exploiting it causing more gentrification. Thoughts?
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It's on my list, but one of these days, I'll finally write a post about how "breathe" is the one word I've seen most frequently from basic income pilot participants when describing their experiences. I can't remember the first time I saw it, but I think it was the Finland pilot.
"If I had to sum it up, my favorite word that I use about this program is ‘breathe.’ We were able to give people an opportunity to breathe and focus on something other than the immediate so that they can plan for a better future.”
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New rule: Anyone who complains that someone else gets an improvement to their life by social change gets the death penalty by being chucked into a volcano 🕺🌋
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Systemic Poverty is Oppression. The greatest trick Capitalists ever pulled was convincing the people that poverty was natural and created by character defects, leaving the Poor to hate themselves, instead of their Oppressors. The U.S. federal minimum wage is a starvation wage!
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“So long as their fair demands - the ownership & control of their livelihoods - are set at naught, we have neither men's rights nor women's rights. The majority of mankind is ground down by industrial oppression in order that the small remnant may live in ease.” – Helen Keller
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“The few own the many because they possess the means of livelihood of all... The country is governed for the richest, for the corporations, the bankers, the land speculators, and for the exploiters of labor. The majority of mankind are working people...”
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To put it another way, imagine a game of Monopoly has been going on for a while. At the beginning all the places were free but now they’re 100x as expensive. It’s then that you are born. And though you did nothing the existing players blame you for poverty and homelessness
Because we live in societies that operate like the game Monopoly, people end up in poverty and homelessness not because of anything they did but simply because they arrived after the game board was already occupied
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It’s not survival of the fittest it’s murder by social neglect
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A hurricane went through our town a few years ago and I was at my friends house. Afterwards, we went to her garden and it was devastated. As we were standing there in a brief moment of silence I said, “You should take better care of your garden.” #victimblaming
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"All citizens 18 years or older shall be guaranteed an annualized income amounting to no less than one-fourth of the annual compensation received by members of Congress." From a proposal for a new US Constitution which also includes proportional RCV. https://t.co/jiRwVdVOoR
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WE THE PEOPLE of the United States do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America, in order to form a more perfect Union founded on liberty, dignity, democracy, and...
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If lawyers or law firms wanted to make money or take on new cases they should represent homeless clients to sue cities and states for the cities putting the clients in reckless endangerment and neglect for blocking people from the natural survival resources the earth provides
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