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OBSERVED EFFECTS OF UBI No significant reduction in labor supply (38 studies meta-analysis) Increased self-employment (301%) and part-time employment (17%) Slight decrease in alcohol and tobacco use (31 studies meta-analysis) New mothers extend their maternity leaves Birth weights improve due to better maternal nutrition Graduation rates and educational outcomes improve Hospitalization rates decline (8.5%) Crime goes down (15%–42%) especially illegal hunting (95%) Domestic violence decreases (30%–51%) Trust increases (13% in politicians | 6% in other people) Home ownership rates increase (17%–26%) Food security increases as does consumption of fresh fruits and vegetables Improved cognitive functioning (43%) and personality traits (31%) Savings go up, debts go down Source: scottsantens

I've been researching the idea of Unconditional Universal Basic Income since 2013. Here's a collection of findings I've compiled from various UBI experiments and studies of cash transfer programs around the world.

This will be a VERY LONG and ongoing thread focused entirely on empirical evidence. 🧵

Ivanka is dedicating a new plaque prominently displayed at Mar-a-Lago.

Read every word, it’s very inspiring.

And this is why UBI is the solution we need.

A really important thread of information on the many (I did not realise so many!) universal basic income trials. Good evidence for those who are instinctively ideologically opposed. It won’t persuade them, but you know ‘drip drip’.

Infectious diseases killed Victorian children at alarming rates — their novels highlight the fragility of public health today Between 40% and 50% of children didn’t live past 5 in the US during the 19th century. Popular authors like Charles Dickens documented the common but no less gutting grief of losing a child.

People have NO idea any more the mass grief and enormous child mortality rates of a world before vaccines. The idea of getting rid of these protective measures just boggles the mind.

A Manifesto Against For-Profit Health Insurance Companies — by Michael Moore I hereby give you my Oscar-nominated Documentary on the Killer Health Insurance companies like United HealthCare —SICKO — for FREE… and let’s end and replace this so-called “health care system” NOW

Imagine if we rejected the public school system because there might be problems and inefficiencies. Imagine if only private schools existed and poor kids never got an education.

Why is healthcare any different?

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Way to go, Spokane!

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"AI well on the path to making meteorologists a thing of the past."

Ah fun, another industry going the way of the dodo.

UBI yet? No?
Of course not.

UBI isn't just a policy; it's a test of our values

We stand at a crossroads. One road leads into a dystopian future; the gap in inequality widens, breeding social unrest.

The other leads to shared prosperity and hope; here, a dignified life is a right, not a luxury.

Choose wisely!

I hate how the US works. We could give everyone single payer healthcare and a basic income. Give tax breaks to people who build affordable housing, But no, let's give billionaires a break, poor babies. Lets take away the safety net, those folks don't need help. :(

Robert Stack, pictured here sleeping on a truck stop toilet in 1969, remains deceased.

It's a shame Robert Stack hasn't posted anything on social media since he died. Cuz that would've been the greatest Unsolved Mystery of all. #UnsolvedMysteries

Places that have offered UBI have seen the results: most people do want to work. The people who choose not to are generally young parents, students, people with disabilities and the elderly. People have a desire to contribute, for our lives to have purpose and to be useful. 5/11

[Reproducing my most viral post] When discussing Universal Basic Income, inevitably the retort comes: "So you just want people to not have to work, is that it?" Accompanied by a smug smirk, expecting me to backpedal and hem and haw, say "Of course not, that's silly." Except...yes. Yes, I do. 1/11

Love everything being said here about #UBI. It could potentially shift our entire society.

Which is, unfortunately, why the oligarchy will never let it happen.

Some good news on #UBI. I hope our pilot get some good funding news soon.

Reddit screen capture: r/ChatGPT "Well, this is it boys. I was just informed from my boss and HR that my entire profession is being automated away."

"UBI would massively decrease the size of Gov't bureaucracy, particularly the most intrusive & obnoxious bureaucrats who are monitoring, judging & making people's lives hell. Fire them all & let them get UBI too, they can form a skiffle band or something." - David Graeber

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Time to wake up from the 20th century Just Over Broke Justification Of Being Jobs, Jobs, Jobs #JobTrance Rip Van Winkle .. with #UBI circulated as upgraded universal #SocialSecurity Trust Fund dividends indexed to 50%PerCapitaGDP.

It's inevitable. We have to get beyond this manufactured left/right crap though.

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Injecting cash directly into citizens' accounts as a social dividend, via Federal Monetary Policy, would re-frame universal basic income from income support to a citizenship right, unconditionally redistributing national wealth, similar to how COVID checks were distributed. #UBI #SocialDividend

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Just remember: when elected officials do not possess the skills required to do the job they were elected to do they focus on things like bathrooms. Our politicians are clowns.

Pay attention to Oklahoma.

Bibles in classrooms isn't the big story.

The same legal teams behind the seeding of Dobbs are driving a case to create religious schools fully funded by the public & they've already petitioned the Supreme Court.

Understandably, everyone was focused on the election.

it seems to me obvious that one good part of UBI would make the welfare state apparatus, judging who is poor or virtuous enough to deserve help, unnecessary. However his is a cheap UBI you can't really live on.

An important point about UBI, Universal Basic Income!

I now have 10,000 followers here but over 5.9 million at the other place. If you want Me to switch for good I need you to get the word out that I'm here, pathetically desperate for worship (just like in real life), and filled with even more contempt for you here than I was there.

Thousands of people have joined a 9-day march towards New Zealand’s capital over a contentious bill redefining the country’s founding agreement between the British and the Indigenous Maori people.

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They're confirmed in the Senate. They can serve for 1 year without confirmation.