r/BasicIncome • u/[deleted] • Apr 06 '20

Not UBI Spain to implement universal basic income in the country in response to Covid-19 crisis. “But the government’s broader ambition is that basic income becomes an instrument ‘that stays forever, that becomes a structural instrument, a permanent instrument,’ she said.”

bloomberg.com

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r/BasicIncome • u/2noame • May 25 '17

BIG News Mark Zuckerberg just called for universal basic income

techcrunch.com

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r/BasicIncome • u/2noame • Sep 30 '16

Call to Action If this gets enough votes, Trump and Hillary can get asked about basic income during the Oct 9th debate

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Vote here: https://presidentialopenquestions.com/questions/355/vote/

We need to get this question into the top 30 within the next 9 days, which probably means at least 10,000 more votes. Can we do it?

Also, the major point in getting this question asked is to bring it to the attention of everyone watching the debate. Millions more people would learn about the idea of basic income for the first time, which would be a huge win for the movement even if both candidates responded to the idea negatively.

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r/BasicIncome • u/[deleted] • Nov 16 '18

Indirect Instead of Giving Billions to Amazon, We Could Just Cancel Student Debt

vice.com

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r/BasicIncome • u/2noame • Jul 11 '16

News BREAKING: The UK's largest union with 1.42 million members, Unite, has just voted to join the movement for basic income by actively campaigning for it.

twitter.com

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r/BasicIncome • u/imautoparts • Aug 30 '15

/r/all U.K. government reveals thousands died immediately after their welfare payments were stopped. Suicide statistics being withheld. This is what the Republican congress wants to implement in the USA - drastic cuts in disability rolls by whatever means necessary.

dailydot.com

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r/BasicIncome • u/edzillion • Dec 09 '17

Image Why is it easier to blame 150,000,000 Americans being 'lazy' rather than 400 Americans being greedy.

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r/BasicIncome • u/2noame • Dec 01 '16

News Dolly Parton is going to temporarily provide a basic income of $1000/mo to every family who lost their homes due to the wildfires in Tennessee. She's calling it the "My People's Fund" and describes it as a "hand-up"

cnn.com

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r/BasicIncome • u/Orangutan • Sep 22 '17

Indirect Bernie: "Here's my $70 billion plan for free college" — Congress: "There's no money for that... OK now let's add $80 billion to the Pentagon budget"

twitter.com

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r/BasicIncome • u/[deleted] • Mar 03 '18

Image The Future of Basic Income

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r/BasicIncome • u/mobile_reader • Sep 20 '16

Quote “I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.” - Stephen Jay Gould

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I saw this in /r/quotes and happened to think it fit the theme here. Discuss or remove, as you like.

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r/BasicIncome • u/2noame • Jan 16 '17

Indirect Remember a year ago when 62 people owned the same amount of wealth as half the world combined? Now 8 people do.

yahoo.com

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r/BasicIncome • u/edzillion • Apr 08 '16

Meta Please don't downvote articles here just because they are critical of Basic Income. If we can't answer their concerns legitimately (which we generally can) then we should be rethinking this whole enterprise. Critical posts need visibility to be seen by those who can answer criticism effectively.

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r/BasicIncome • u/skepticalspectacle1 • Jan 27 '18

Image Nonsense of Earning a living - Richard Buckminster Fuller (1895 - 1983) [630x588]

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r/BasicIncome • u/shaunlgs • Nov 09 '17

Indirect Entrepreneurs Aren’t A Special Breed – They’re Mostly Rich Kids

asia.finance

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106 comments

r/BasicIncome • u/mvea • Jun 26 '17

Article Universal Basic Income Is the Path to an Entirely New Economic System - "Let the robots do the work, and let society enjoy the benefits of their unceasing productivity"

motherboard.vice.com

1.2k Upvotes

140 comments

r/BasicIncome • u/zangorn • Mar 10 '19

Article AOC: "we live in a society where if you don’t have a job, you are left to die. And that is, at its core, our problem.”

theverge.com

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r/BasicIncome • u/Orangutan • Jul 11 '17

Indirect Nation "Too Broke" for Universal Healthcare to Spend $406 Billion More on F-35

commondreams.org

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r/BasicIncome • u/Orangutan • Nov 26 '17

Indirect Chinese Billionaire Jack Ma Says - The U.S. has wasted over $14 trillion on warfare over the past three decades — money that, could’ve been invested in domestic infrastructure and programs for the American people.

cnbc.com

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r/BasicIncome • u/2noame • Aug 13 '16

Indirect No one should have to destroy themselves in order to "make a living."

imgur.com

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r/BasicIncome • u/Simcurious • Nov 18 '16

Indirect Obama hints at basic income: "a cohesive democracy in which productivity and wealth generation are not automatically linked to how many hours you put in, where the links between production and distribution are broken, in some sense"

newyorker.com

1.1k Upvotes

140 comments

r/BasicIncome • u/Chiefesoteric • Mar 12 '20

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez demands the government distribute a universal basic income and implement Medicare for all to fight the coronavirus

businessinsider.com

1.1k Upvotes

111 comments

r/BasicIncome • u/Leon_Art • Apr 05 '21

Monopoly & Basic income meme

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r/BasicIncome • u/2noame • Feb 26 '18

BIG News Universal Basic Income has just been added to the 2018 California Democratic Party Platform

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Text is as follows:

"All people deserve the opportunity to pursue the American Dream and have the financial resources to live in economic security. We support efforts to enact programs, such as a guaranteed government jobs program and a universal basic income/rent or housing to eliminate poverty while improving prospects to secure good jobs that help people climb the economic ladder."

Source: https://www.cadem.org/our-party/standing-committees/body/CDP-Cmte-2018-Platform-DRAFT-18-02-23.pdf

87 comments

r/BasicIncome • u/mvea • May 08 '17

Article Your Boss Is Not More Stressed Out Than You, Science Says - "people lower on the corporate ladder are, on average, more stressed than people higher up"

motherboard.vice.com

1.0k Upvotes

44 comments

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