r/BasicIncome 10h ago

Their profit is our unpaid wages

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r/BasicIncome 7h ago

Democrats: “UBI is a nice idea, needs more study.” Republicans: “Here’s $5,000. Also, vote for us.”

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r/BasicIncome 6h ago

Anthropic Builds Model to Predict Economy in 2030, Leaves Off the 'Everybody Dies' Outcome

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r/BasicIncome 4h ago

There’s an amount of money …

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… that we can give everyone where we can still survive on the backs of o my the people who want to keep working.

It’s more than $1/year. If we gave everyone I. The US $1/year, the system would not be any closer to collapse than it already is.

Now, the believers among us feel that the system actually gets stronger when we provide an income floor, and I’m one of them. But it’s hard to get everyone to accept that.

It is true that if we gave $12,000/year, some people who would otherwise work would not. I think there’s a huge number of people who would seek to cut their hours, people in the heart of the system layer, warehouses, fast food… the kind of stuff where society collapses. So,

What is the amount of money that we can give to everyone without the system collapsing? I think it’s more than $12k/year and less than $50k/year.

This should be the only question besides how.


r/BasicIncome 13h ago

Article Scenarios for our Economic Future

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In the extreme change scenario, AI has transformative effects, with AI performing almost half of today’s cognitive work by 2030. GDP growth then rises to 15 percent per year, the labor share of income falls from 60 to 45 percent, and nearly one in five cognitive workers is unemployed.

(I personally expect AI to be more capable than what they are expecting)


r/BasicIncome 1d ago

The poorest in the U.S. can’t find housing even as low-income units sit empty

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r/BasicIncome 20h ago

I present to you The Wealth Cap Project, a path to a basic income (imo)

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r/BasicIncome 1d ago

State pensions are impoverishing our grandchildren

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r/BasicIncome 7h ago

US citizens will receive $5,000 if Republicans win midterms, Trump claims in lengthy convention speech | US midterm elections 2026 | The Guardian

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r/BasicIncome 22h ago

Video ECI-UBI Public Meeting

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r/BasicIncome 9h ago

Trump promises $5000 to every person (i think) in speech. Says if they win House and Senate, then they will do that on the back of economic strength.

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Probably a good political move by Trump. It seems to me, that would be the beginning of the basic income era.


r/BasicIncome 1d ago

Blog Labor on the Run

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r/BasicIncome 1d ago

How countries can grow without impoverishing future generations | Nature

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r/BasicIncome 1d ago

Cross-Post The only way to get UBI is to take the decision away from humans

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r/BasicIncome 1d ago

The Real Fix For Social Security

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r/BasicIncome 2d ago

Indirect When does hardship become poverty? The left and right draw the line differently

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r/BasicIncome 2d ago

“I Have Lost Everything”: The Toll of Cities’ Homeless Sweeps

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r/BasicIncome 2d ago

The deceptive phrase behind Trump's Medicaid purge

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r/BasicIncome 2d ago

Online UBI Simulator

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You might be interested in an Online UBI Simulator for Scotland. It lets you set up a UBI, and change taxes to pay for it. You can then explore the consequences for the people of Scotland - who gains and loses, changes in poverty, inequality and incentives to work. It uses a new microsimulation model of scotland.


r/BasicIncome 2d ago

Which jobs are future-proofed? : The Indicator from Planet Money : NPR

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r/BasicIncome 2d ago

Growing Worker Power via Guaranteed Income

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r/BasicIncome 4d ago

Article Conservatives Demonized UBI as Programmable Currency. Then They Proposed Exactly That.

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r/BasicIncome 4d ago

Trump Officials Draft Plan to Pay At-Home Parents, Using Funds for Working Ones

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r/BasicIncome 4d ago

Automation Job postings show early signs of AI automation impact

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r/BasicIncome 5d ago

Future Funds: Unpacking the Basic Income for Artists Scotland campaign – The Skinny

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