i was told i was gonna hit a wall of fatigue sometime after the 2nd or 3rd week after finishing treatment. am glad to be alive and on my way to recovery but this sucks ass.
we need #UBI as part of health care. nobody should have to be precariously unemployed during a situation like this.
anybody having to go to a job during or after #cancer treatment is lying to do that they can handle it.
this is not bullshit. to be forced to work thru a #health crisis is eugenics.
Apart from being egregiously out of touch, it's also a huge power move, one that I don't think people grasp.
The polarisation of society into those deriving an income from return on capital - capitalists - and those deriving an income from labour - workers - has been driven in large part by venture capital and their hunger for new asset classes.
Housing is an asset class, it's no longer social infrastructure.
Stocks are an asset class - they're no longer a way to ensure survival of the best organisations - because many companies with little revenue have high valuations.
Compute is now an asset class. It allows organisations to gain advantage, and create a moat from their competitors. Compute is an asset.
By substituting compute for money (another asset class), Altman is trying to substitute compute for currency more broadly.
And who creates currency?
Typically, the state. Who now creates currency, sorry I mean compute? The MAANGs that have taken the place of the state.
Compute is currency.
Replacing currency with compute is a form of wrestling control from the state.
Our #aurora generating magnetosphere, a geophysical #UBI, an environmental, ecological, economic UBI we don’t even think of that billionaires and their pet economists say they are competent to substitute for.
Consider the enormity of their egotistical folly.
Even Star Fleet would choose a 7C warmer Earth or an irradiated nuked Earth over a Mars. Technology has nothing to do with it. Wisdom does.
I'm against student loan forgiveness, not because I'm against giving the money out... but because I'm against giving it out only to student loan debtors. Here's the idea... give everyone equally a #UBI and let the people with student loans repay it from there. I'm ok with limiting interest rates too, and rolling back capitalization of back interest... totally fine with that. But if we're creating money out of thin air and giving it to anyone, it should 100% be equally distributed.
Hey @scottsantens and #UBI friends! This Canadian House of Commons petition needs some help to get across the finish line in the next couple days! Can you help spread the word for more signatures!?
"We, the undersigned, Canadians supporting GBI, call upon the Government of Canada to implement a national framework for GBI that tests various funding and implementation models and their effects on poverty, inequality, innovation and labour productivity.”
There is always quite a lot of discussion about universal basic income in my timeline, and its an approach that has its supporters & detractors.
So, for those with time on their hands you might want to look at Ellis Winningham's pretty comprehensive series on UBI posted last year @BylinesScotland
There's lots to get your teeth into & I hope you find it helpful.
Drained from a few days of much social interaction, so looking at #UBI data. So far I only found two studies that didn't have obvious great outcomes, but that includes one that was cancelled early.
Also:
"When the project was finished in August 2023, Mein Grundeinkommen calculated that a tax-financed universal basic income of €1,200 per month could be financed for every adult in Germany that would make 80% of adults better off."
A natural basic income experiment began in the mid-1990s and how the kids (now in their 30s and 40s) are doing is incredible. As adults, they have fewer drug problems and their average IQ is higher. By age 26, the benefits of the UBI exceeded its cost by 3-to-1 thanks to better educational outcomes and reduced spending on crime and medical care.
RANDOM REMINDER
house chores, errands, laundry, cooking, mowing, care-taking, repairs, schooling, all domestic activities are work and as such, LABOR.
there's so much talk about #tradwives these days, it bears repeating: #capitalism completely devalued the labor of housekeeping, turning it back to its original condition as a form of, if not slavery then, domestic servitude.
the Wealth of Nations is built on the Stolen Labor of Home keepers. yet another reason for #UBI and #Medicare4All
I'd love to see #ubi in place for all Americans. Like others, I agree that taxing billionaires, companies, reducing military spending, and such would all be good sources. But to my untrained math mind, it still doesn't add up.
Order of magnitude: GDP ~20 trillion $/yr, Population 330 million.
Assume $10 /person / day. (Not enough, I know) But even that modest number would be over a trillion a year.
That's 5% of GDP to buy everyone a nice sandwich a day.
It breaks all these unsustainable practices and con tricks, AND IT SAVES MONEY.
Oh, and it doesn't funnel money to offshoring wealthy sociopaths.
Money for UBI ends up in the pockets of people who need it to live, who spend it, and will spend it in their communities reducing the need for centralised support, means testing and other inefficiencies.
Farmers have realised that Brexit has done them few favours (they were warned, of course) & now seek a solution that is popular on Mastodon: universal basic income.
It seems that farmers have hit on UBI as a form of funding that will replace the EU funding model they lost having (at least round here) deciding to bite the hand that fed them.
Q. would UBI for farmers help the more general case or provide evidence of its financial unsustainability?
#Billionaires want to #dismantle#socialsecurity and put all your money in their bank accounts. I think we should do the opposite and take their #trilliondollars, put it into social security, and put everyone below $250k on #disability . You don’t have to call it #ubi if you don’t want to. It’s not #socialism I promise.
What if we made it entirely illegal for corporations to own homes? And then we guaranteed housing.
C'mon people, this is one of the most basic, bottom line functions of a government.
Shelter, food, water, medical care.
Literally the things you need to survive, because there is no rule anywhere in physics saying you have to make money to survive or justify your existence. Everything past those is a cultural artifact.
We need to require governments begin implementing UBI and taxing the rich or there will be a massive dying off of malnourished and starving people literally in our own backyards.⬇️
"Food prices will climb everywhere as temperatures rise due to climate change – new research " ..up to over 3% per year!
(Pensions do not increase this much.)
“When someone steals another's clothes, we call them a thief. Should we not give the same name to one who could clothe the naked and does not?…the coat unused in your closet belongs to the one who needs it; the shoes rotting in your closet belong to the one who has no shoes; the money which you hoard up belongs to the poor.” — Basil the Great
Dear #Tory voters, or Scumbags if I may be informal, if you don't want a society filled with what you perceive as "jobsworths", then maybe don't create a society where being fired and facing unemployment is a fast track to permanent soul crushing poverty. Because if being unemployed is intolerable, people are not gonna put their jobs at risk to bend the rules for you.
My article in this week's @common_weal newsletter.
If, according to a new research paper, the cost of a Universal Basic Income could be less than the cost of the poverty it eliminates, then bringing in that UBI becomes a moral imperative.