Tom Pogson
@basicbc.bsky.social
Musician, writer, and Basic Income Victoria BC Guy who knows the abundance of a better world IS possible.
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Tom Pogson
@basicbc.bsky.social
· Dec 1
Explore the usual questions at www.scottsantens.com/basic-income...
Link also in bio.
Guy Standing also goes through them with a chapter on both "how to pay for it" and "won't people quit?" In his book "Basic Income and How We Can Make it Happen" (2015 Pelican Books.)
Link also in bio.
Guy Standing also goes through them with a chapter on both "how to pay for it" and "won't people quit?" In his book "Basic Income and How We Can Make it Happen" (2015 Pelican Books.)
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Go and visit my mum 💖
Honest question: If everyone got Universal Basic Income, no strings attached, what would YOU do with it?
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November 30, 2025 at 12:14 AM
Go and visit my mum 💖
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buy groceries lmao hahaha
Honest question: If everyone got Universal Basic Income, no strings attached, what would YOU do with it?
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November 30, 2025 at 12:19 AM
buy groceries lmao hahaha
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So many of us have worked hard our whole lives, only for others to swindle us.
We should all be swindle-proofed.
We should all be swindle-proofed.
It's a right, not charity because we once could access resources to survive, before worldwide enclosure.
It's a right because where we now are is the result of generations of our ancestors. It's our combined work that brought us to a place of job precarity.
It's a right because where we now are is the result of generations of our ancestors. It's our combined work that brought us to a place of job precarity.
November 30, 2025 at 1:45 AM
So many of us have worked hard our whole lives, only for others to swindle us.
We should all be swindle-proofed.
We should all be swindle-proofed.
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Honest question: If everyone got Universal Basic Income, no strings attached, what would YOU do with it?
Re-post with your quote or drop your take below.
Re-post with your quote or drop your take below.
November 28, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Honest question: If everyone got Universal Basic Income, no strings attached, what would YOU do with it?
Re-post with your quote or drop your take below.
Re-post with your quote or drop your take below.
It's a right, not charity because we once could access resources to survive, before worldwide enclosure.
It's a right because where we now are is the result of generations of our ancestors. It's our combined work that brought us to a place of job precarity.
It's a right because where we now are is the result of generations of our ancestors. It's our combined work that brought us to a place of job precarity.
November 29, 2025 at 7:10 PM
It's a right, not charity because we once could access resources to survive, before worldwide enclosure.
It's a right because where we now are is the result of generations of our ancestors. It's our combined work that brought us to a place of job precarity.
It's a right because where we now are is the result of generations of our ancestors. It's our combined work that brought us to a place of job precarity.
The welfare state we use was designed for an industrial world that ran on horses and steam power. Labour has long changed since then. We should change from a net full of holes to a solid floor.
November 28, 2025 at 7:48 PM
The welfare state we use was designed for an industrial world that ran on horses and steam power. Labour has long changed since then. We should change from a net full of holes to a solid floor.
Happy Thanksgiving to my US friends and followers.
Today is a day of both abundance as well as the footprint of working together to bring everyone that abundance. Everyone deserves a seat at the table.
basicbc.wordpress.com/2022/10/08/b...
Today is a day of both abundance as well as the footprint of working together to bring everyone that abundance. Everyone deserves a seat at the table.
basicbc.wordpress.com/2022/10/08/b...
Basic income and gratitude, a Thanksgiving blog
Before I start this blog, written at the start of the Canadian long Thanksgiving weekend I want to acknowledge the problematic issues with the holiday. In the United States and partially in Canada …
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November 27, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Happy Thanksgiving to my US friends and followers.
Today is a day of both abundance as well as the footprint of working together to bring everyone that abundance. Everyone deserves a seat at the table.
basicbc.wordpress.com/2022/10/08/b...
Today is a day of both abundance as well as the footprint of working together to bring everyone that abundance. Everyone deserves a seat at the table.
basicbc.wordpress.com/2022/10/08/b...
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"Our faith is a living thing, and it can be crippled or chained. It can be killed by denying us enough food or clothing, by blasting away our personalities and keeping us in constant fear."
Universal basic income brings freedom from want for all. Happy Thanksgiving and may we all gain that freedom.
Universal basic income brings freedom from want for all. Happy Thanksgiving and may we all gain that freedom.
Gratitude
Thanksgiving thoughts
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November 27, 2025 at 5:13 PM
"Our faith is a living thing, and it can be crippled or chained. It can be killed by denying us enough food or clothing, by blasting away our personalities and keeping us in constant fear."
Universal basic income brings freedom from want for all. Happy Thanksgiving and may we all gain that freedom.
Universal basic income brings freedom from want for all. Happy Thanksgiving and may we all gain that freedom.
We've earned a better future. It's crazy to both scare ourselves out of it and not share in the benefits of it, suggesting we should all just work ever harder to make up the difference.
November 27, 2025 at 7:45 PM
We've earned a better future. It's crazy to both scare ourselves out of it and not share in the benefits of it, suggesting we should all just work ever harder to make up the difference.
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There's a UBI post on FB being reposted by thousands of accounts that's pro-UBI disinfo. No, Sweden didn't do a big UBI pilot where 5,000 Swedes got $1800/mo in UBI for 3 years. That never happened. The "results" appear to be AI-generated. UBI works. It doesn't need false data. See my pinned thread.
November 23, 2025 at 4:24 PM
There's a UBI post on FB being reposted by thousands of accounts that's pro-UBI disinfo. No, Sweden didn't do a big UBI pilot where 5,000 Swedes got $1800/mo in UBI for 3 years. That never happened. The "results" appear to be AI-generated. UBI works. It doesn't need false data. See my pinned thread.
Tried to explain this! It's just started from somewhere besides zero. My sister and I didn't just turn into blobs because we had someplace to launch from. It gave certainty to take risks if anything.
November 26, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Tried to explain this! It's just started from somewhere besides zero. My sister and I didn't just turn into blobs because we had someplace to launch from. It gave certainty to take risks if anything.
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Breaking: Canadian farmers plan to lobby the federal government to implement a guaranteed annual income and a cap on the profits of the major grocery store chains in the country.
November 26, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Breaking: Canadian farmers plan to lobby the federal government to implement a guaranteed annual income and a cap on the profits of the major grocery store chains in the country.
Basic income isnt about everyone with a hammock. Its about everyone with boots, a springboard, a rope ladder to the escape helicopter.
Just takes a little faith.🌟
Just takes a little faith.🌟
November 26, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Basic income isnt about everyone with a hammock. Its about everyone with boots, a springboard, a rope ladder to the escape helicopter.
Just takes a little faith.🌟
Just takes a little faith.🌟
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"Immanuel Kant urged us to respect the value of human beings by treating them always (at the same time) as ends in themselves and never (merely) as means to ends other than themselves... A universal basic income (UBI), I contend, could be a helpful policy to this effect."
The Kantian case for UBI:
The Kantian case for UBI:
A Kantian Approach to Everything? On Life Choices and Universal Basic Income | Blog of the APA
Immanuel Kant urged us to respect the value of human beings by treating them always (at the same time) as ends in themselves and never (merely) as means to ends other than themselves. I contend it wou...
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November 25, 2025 at 3:28 PM
"Immanuel Kant urged us to respect the value of human beings by treating them always (at the same time) as ends in themselves and never (merely) as means to ends other than themselves... A universal basic income (UBI), I contend, could be a helpful policy to this effect."
The Kantian case for UBI:
The Kantian case for UBI:
Basic income is freedom. It's breathing space. It's the unconditional right to choice.
November 25, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Basic income is freedom. It's breathing space. It's the unconditional right to choice.
Its a moral imperative, Charlie Brown
November 25, 2025 at 12:15 AM
Its a moral imperative, Charlie Brown
Image from Lincoln Castle, Lincolnshire.
November 24, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Image from Lincoln Castle, Lincolnshire.
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If AI succeeds, we need universal basic income, and if AI fails, we need universal basic income. Also, we should have implemented UBI decades ago when working class incomes first decoupled from productivity growth.
So if AI succeeds loads of people lose their jobs as they're replaced by AI, and if AI fails, loads of people lose their jobs as the economy crashes?
It’s amazing how this story has gone from 0 to 60 in UK press. There’s been no mainstream coverage to date but this morning the story is leading BBC News site & bulletins.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
November 19, 2025 at 2:44 PM
If AI succeeds, we need universal basic income, and if AI fails, we need universal basic income. Also, we should have implemented UBI decades ago when working class incomes first decoupled from productivity growth.
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S. Korea has doubled the budget for its massive universal basic income experiment, increasing the number of rural counties included in it from 7 to 12, and relieving counties of more of the cost. As a result, the number of participants in the 2-yr UBI pilot will go from ~250k to near 400,000 people.
Gov't doubles budget for rural basic income pilot program following local backlash
The budget for President Lee Jae Myung’s rural basic income initiative — a major campaign pledge — has been doubled at the pilot stage, following protests from local governments that were excluded fro...
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November 19, 2025 at 2:38 PM
S. Korea has doubled the budget for its massive universal basic income experiment, increasing the number of rural counties included in it from 7 to 12, and relieving counties of more of the cost. As a result, the number of participants in the 2-yr UBI pilot will go from ~250k to near 400,000 people.
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As long as large corporations, that have warehouses all over the world, limit hours to 28 a week (cause at 30 hrs, they'd have to offer insurance), this will continue.
ICYMI: I spoke with CBS Sunday Morning about my book, There Is No Place for Us, alongside the families whose desperate efforts to secure housing the book follows—people working nonstop and still being pushed into homelessness.
When the employed are pushed into homelessness
In America we are taught hard work is the key to success. But despite having full-time jobs, many families are locked out of the rental housing market, due to low wages, soaring rents and poor credit,...
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November 22, 2025 at 9:44 PM
As long as large corporations, that have warehouses all over the world, limit hours to 28 a week (cause at 30 hrs, they'd have to offer insurance), this will continue.
Caution: one curse word, one weirdly pronounced.
We all deserve the power to lock the door, to escape.
We all deserve the power to lock the door, to escape.
November 22, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Caution: one curse word, one weirdly pronounced.
We all deserve the power to lock the door, to escape.
We all deserve the power to lock the door, to escape.
The working world will continue to change. We need to create stability first to meet this especially when its our combined efforts for generations that got us here.
qz.com/entry-level-...
qz.com/entry-level-...
Two-thirds of companies will slow entry-level hiring due to AI
New research shows AI is already reshaping everything from hiring pipelines to leadership development — and it's going to get even more severe
qz.com
November 22, 2025 at 5:22 AM
The working world will continue to change. We need to create stability first to meet this especially when its our combined efforts for generations that got us here.
qz.com/entry-level-...
qz.com/entry-level-...