Ken Yang

It's not that radical

When responding to skeptics, show them that this already works today and is economically sound.

They won't respond to much other evidence.

As expected, many still just parrot the same tired tropes instead responding to these points head on in good faith.

An income floor is hyper-capital efficient and costs less than what we're spending today on poverty.

UBI dividends give us a stake in natural & publicly created common wealth.

Lots of newcomers to basic income learning the truth:

- 0 studies showed major drop in work
- saves taxpayers $ long-run (cheaper than poverty)
- most Canadians benefited from some sort of basic income (CCB, GIS)
- people in AI pretty much all support UBI
- it's not left or right (see Alaska's UBI)

Working should get more tax relief than gains from owning land. We have it backwards.

Basic Income Explained: Guaranteed Basic Income (GBI) vs. Universal Basic Income (UBI) We already have basic income models that work: guaranteed basic income to lower poverty and UBI dividends from common resources. We explain the differences and how they work together to provide econom...

Many types of basic income already work today successfully.

Alaska's UBI dividend is being called on as a model for Alberta and US sovereign wealth funds.

A guaranteed income floor is just a negative income tax that would save taxpayers money.

www.ubiworks.ca/gbi-vs-ubi

This initiative needs to be sped up and put in place ASAP.

Betting against UBI is betting against AI.

And I wouldn't bet against AI.

Lots of newcomers to basic income learning the truth:

- 0 studies showed major drop in work
- saves taxpayers $ long-run (cheaper than poverty)
- most Canadians benefited from some sort of basic income (CCB, GIS)
- people in AI pretty much all support UBI
- it's not left or right (see Alaska's UBI)

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Thanks for your hard work Susan.

The first panelists we invited were women, including Minister Boyle who's interested but has a conflict. The LVT-focused advocacy crowd is not the biggest but of course we want to be inclusive.

We'd love to have you be part of this.

The evidence is in favour of basic income

pro-freedom, pro-safety, pro-family, pro-entrepreneurship, pro-jobs, pro-market, pro-dignity

That's what they'll learn

Go Senator Pate!

BREAKING: Canadian Senate Bill S-206 for a Guaranteed Livable Basic Income passed Second Reading and will be sent to Committee

News Release: Senate Committee to Study Guaranteed Livable Basic Income — Senator Kim Pate 🤩

YouTube video by UBI Works UBI in a Post-Labour Economy | David Shapiro, Dalibor Petrovic, Ken Yang

What happens when human labour no longer has economic value due to AI, and how does UBI fit in?

We sat down with @daveshap.bsky.social and Dalibor Petrovic, two people leading the frontier of post-labour economics.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=jX21...

Fair.

Good chance it borrowed language from BC BI Panel. Either way it is normalizing the term basic income in policy documents which hopefully is a good thing.

This is also pretty mainstream centrist policy

BREAKING🍁: 2025 Report of the National Advisory Council on Poverty recommends a basic income floor to ensure everyone reaches at least the poverty line

This is pretty reasonable.

Step One: Fire the human workers and help degrade the total economy with both robotics and AI so now millions of out-of-work Americans don’t have money to spend buying shit on Amazon and also robots cost money but don’t spend money

Step Two: ???

Step Three: Profit!

"Canada's basic income superhero" 🍁

Go Floyd!

CBC The National on our team's work @ubiworks.bsky.social

We're already seeing increasing reports of companies firing, or not hiring, because of AI.

We all know what's coming. All paths to a bright future lead to UBI.

@dannyoleksiuk.bsky.social We're hosting a Housing & LVT panel meetup in at SFU in Burnaby on Nov 27.

Wanted to personally invite you but couldn't msg you on X anymore.

With basic income, we're not just surviving—we're building a future where everyone can thrive.

That's the power of economic freedom.

Basic Income will help us Build a Strong Canada.

Basic Income will help us Build a Strong Canada.

I believe AI will create massive wealth and potential for humankind to flourish.

But no matter, what we can all anticipate that the gains will be extremely uneven—perhaps more than any technological revolution that came before. And this is true even if there isn't rapid and sudden mass job loss. 🧵

Maybe listen to the Nobel Prize winner whose work made AI like ChatGPT possible… when he says UBI will be necessary?

Many in the Canadian basic income movement brushed this off until as recently as 2 years ago, when chatGPT became the fastest product to 100M users

Now everyone's talking about it

Bernie dropped this video saying AI will wipe out the working class.

“Millions of jobs will be eliminated. This is not science fiction. It’s already happening.”

The UBI movement has been saying this for years.