Interested in universal basic income?
We're presenting some thoughts as the basic income trial for artists in Ireland winds down. This free online event on June 4th at 18:30 BST might be of some interest to some folks here: https://actionnetwork.org/events/basic-income-for-the-arts-in-ireland-what-have-we-learned-after-32-months
Another win-win and progressive way of making sure that nobody is left behind:
"Albuquerque [New Mexico, USA] is now funding a #BasicIncome project with its tax on recreational cannabis."
"Through these and many other measures, along with the basic income assistance, our community will reap long-term public health #benefits reductions in addiction rates, and taxpayer savings".
https://www.businessinsider.com/albuquerque-new-mexico-basic-income-marijuana-tax-2025-5
#UBI4ME #UBI #UniversalBasicIncome #UniversalBasicInvestment #Marijuana #Tax #Albuquerque
gain in US billionaire net worth, 2023-5, per year: 1.15 trillion
Cost of giving every household but the top 25 percent ($98,540+, assuming no one else in the household) $1000/month, per year: ~1.14 trillion
But sure, our money is being put to good use.
(Sources in reply).
#wealth #superrich #oligarchs #economy #universalbasicincome #billionaire #oligarchy #plutocrats #capitalism
This is why, Universal Basic Income (UBI) needs to become a reality.
1) As soon as AI can replace people, it will.
2) That is what AI was designed to do.
3) Every study has shown when UBI has been implemented, both economic and social growth as a net positive for that community. -- Meaning, it works.
#UBI #UniversalBasicIncome #AI #ArtificialIntelligence
RE: https://mastodon.social/users/nixCraft/statuses/114539246756310497
#AmnestyInternational supports and reccomends #UniversalBasicIncome as an urgent measure in th current global stuation.
https://www.youtube.com/live/oL5pJdr2_r8?feature=shared&t=1715
Fight loneliness: https://www.aurianneor.org/fight-loneliness/
#activity #activitygroup #alone #artistic #association #aurianneor #club #friends #leisure #literary #loneliness #meetings #meetup #outings #socialactivity #together #universalbasicincome #workreduction
More and more entrepreneurs are realising that without labour there is no money and no customers...
"Universal basic income is the notion that a government should guarantee every citizen a yearly sum of money, no strings attached. The thinking is that such a program would relieve economic stress as automation technology severely reduces the demand for labor."
https://mashable.com/article/ebay-founder-universal-basic-income
#UBI4ME #UniversalBasicIncome #UBI #UniversalBasicInvestment #TaxTheRich #freedom #equality #Social #Politics
Rejecting Status, Resisting YouTube, and Redefining Success in Unseen Work
Unstatus
Joan had an interesting post about stepping away from the status markers of society. While many people are stepping away from the traditional markers of status, cars/houses, that also shows the status they have as she acknowledges.
Rejecting conventional status markers often requires already possessing substantial financial, social, and cultural capital. The lawyer can afford to trade his BMW for a bicycle because he still has the law degree, the professional network, and the bank account. The corporate executive who steps away from the rat race to “find herself” has family wealth or a spouse’s income as a safety net.
My thought is, how do we make it possible for anyone to reject the symbols of “status”? Possibly some type of universal basic income so that everyone is not a victim of productivity and capitalism, which punishes you as with scarcity as soon as something happens and impedes their ability to work.
YouTube embracing Podcasts to control them?
That’s at least the fear of Justin Jackson. A pro to YouTube is that it’s got built in monetization and hosting for your video/podcast so you don’t have to worry about paying for a service, like Justin runs.
But like Justin, I think that we got lucky when Apple embraced RSS for podcasting and I don’t think that the Apple we know today would do the same thing. I think they’d lock it behind some type of paywall tied to their subscriptions and then take as much as possible from creators because of their “discovery”.
As Justin states, when YouTube innovates on podcasts, it stays inside YouTube and the wider world doesn’t benefit from it.
If you listen to a podcast, make sure you do something to support the creator financially so that they don’t feel the siren call of YouTube and easier monetization. All of those audio shows you love have creators that need to eat and if you’re not helping them eat, then don’t expect the show to stay around.
Work without recognition
You can do great work and be unknown, in fact in the programming field I think that doing great work on systems that aren’t flashy is a sign of an accomplished programmer. Far to many projects I’ve picked up in my 15 years have 5 “new” technologies that were a flash in the pan and were never updated. But at the time the project started they were cool and the programmer could write a blog post about it.
They built something to show off for their next job, not to serve the company they worked at currently the best.
Heck I’ve spent the better part of 3 years digging out of some of that shit at work. Taking fancy JS frameworks that have never been updated and moving them back to basic PHP/HTML with a bit of vanilla JavaScript or at worst jQuery mixed in to improve user feedback.
One big note, the stuff I started on 3 years ago hasn’t had to be touched again. Resolve a few PHP errors when we upgrade to the latest version, but it just works.
If I’m hiring I’m looking for someone that builds stuff that just works for years and doesn’t chase the newest fanciest shit that changes every week.
Rejecting Status, Resisting YouTube, and Redefining Success in Unseen Work
Unstatus
Joan had an interesting post about stepping away from the status markers of society. While many people are stepping away from the traditional markers of status, cars/houses, that also shows the status they have as she acknowledges.
Reje
https://curtismchale.ca/2025/05/17/rejecting-status-resisting-youtube-and-redefining-success-in-unseen-work/
#3Threads #LegacyWork #podcasting #UniversalBasicIncome
Wealth isn’t created alone. Every billionaire benefits from workers, roads, schools, and society itself.
#UBI simply ensures that the value we all help create is shared fairly. Because fairness isn’t trickle-down—it’s lifting everyone up. ❤️
https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/2020/01/09/trends-in-income-and-wealth-inequality/
#UBI4ME #UniversalBasicIncome #UniversalBasicInvestment #SocialJustice #policy #TaxTheRich
Great news on #UniversalBasicIncome from Connecticut, USA:
"Rep. Susan Johnson, offered her strong support of the bill as a way to improve the lives of women and children in the state, saying their condition has deteriorated in Connecticut and many have been forced into homelessness because of poor policy."
"The bill passed the House on a 110-37 vote" 🥳
#UBI4ME #UBI #UniversalBasicInvestment #Equality #Politics #Homelessness #progressive
What if financial stability wasn’t a privilege, but a right?
Right now, some people have wealth just for being born into the right circumstances. #UniversalBasicIncome says everyone deserves security, not just the lucky few. And that’s #fairness
https://www.globalcitizen.org/en/content/wealth-inequality-oxfam-billionaires-elon-musk/
#UBI #UBI4ME #TaxTheRich #Equality #policy #WealthTax #UniversalBasicInvestment #Change
Psychology Today has a fantastic article on the AI revolution replacing human labour with machines. It also offers a few tips on how to deal with the upcoming change.
"#UBI doesn’t just reduce #poverty—it rebuilds #inclusion
It gives people space to breathe, care for others, learn, and rethink what they want from life—not just what they have to do to survive (Wijngaarde et al., 2021)."
#UBI4ME #UniversalBasicIncome #UniversalBasicInvestment #LearnForJoy #AI #Future
Ann Arbor's 2 year #UBI project does help those who receive the #GuaranteedIncome including those who want to start their own business like Marie Codrington who wants to start her own food truck ❤️
#UBI4ME #UniversalBasicIncome #UniversalBasicInvestment #Entrepreneur #SocialJustice #CostOfLiving
Ann Arbor runs a 2 year #UniversalBasicIncome project but not everyone receives the #UBI
"...most apartments in the city cost over $1,000 per month.
She receives $947 per month in Social Security, but that’s not enough to afford a place, she said, saying she has tried working different jobs to earn more, but each dollar earned was a dollar taken out of her Social Security benefits."
How can this situation be allowed to continue?
@ landlords:
Unless the #housing you provide is literally charity to your tenants
Yes, youre a leech
#housingforall #anticapitalism #community #universalbasicincome #ubi #landlord
"It's more than a check, it's the #freedom #everyone deserves."
https://economicsecurityproject.org/work/guaranteed-income/
#UBI #UBI4ME #UniversalBasicIncome #UniversalBasicInvestment #EconomicSecurity #policy #cash
💡 Imagine a world where your worth isn’t tied to your job.
#UBI recognizes your inherent value and gives you the space to breathe, dream, and grow. It’s time to support a system that values people over profits. Let’s make it happen! 🌍
#UBI4ME #UniversalBasicIncome #SupportUBI #HumanDignity #EconomicFreedom #DreamBig #TogetherWeRise
Everyone is an artist 😍
Happy Friday everyone and remember, you are an artist too 😀
Whether you express your creativity with a drawing board, pen & paper, in the kitchen, reading a bedtime story to your children, in the garden or in the garage - you are an artist and deserve #UniversalBasicIncome With No Strings Attached
https://www.yesmagazine.org/opinion/2025/05/09/universal-basic-income-artists
#UBI #UBI4ME #UniversalBasicInvestment #NoStringsAttached #Change #SocialPolicy #Equality #GoodLife
Wikipedia: In his Utopia, English statesman and philosopher Thomas More depicts a society in which every person receives a #GuaranteedIncome
"No penalty on earth will stop people from stealing, if it's their only way of getting food"
"instead of inflicting these horrible punishments, it would be far more to the point to provide everyone with some means of livelihood, so that nobody's under the frightful necessity of becoming first a thief, then a corpse."
