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Honest question: If everyone got Universal Basic Income, no strings attached, what would YOU do with it?
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The USA is in a constitutional crisis at the moment, which we see as a greater priority, thank you for your attention.
Honest answer, Alaska has universal basic income and one of the more expensive places to live. I believe that we need to concentrate more on getting the minimum wage raised so that corporations no longer get to starve their workers.
What would the UBI be? $1,000 a month? Not even enough to live.
What would the UBI be? $1,000 a month? Not even enough to live.
January 23, 2026 at 4:56 AM
The USA is in a constitutional crisis at the moment, which we see as a greater priority, thank you for your attention.
UBI debates must separate gross vs net cost. In the US, a $16k adult / $8k child UBI has a $4.86T gross cost, but a $605.5B net cost after offsets. Therefor, the real cost is about one-seventh of the headline number.
Jack Rossbach & find that a poverty-line UBI costs only 2.67% of GDP. The cost/GDP has been falling for over 50 years.
2026, “The Falling Cost of Basic Income: Updated and Expanded Back-of-the-Envelope Calculations.” Basic Income Studies, pages 1-37. DOI: doi.org/10.1515/bis-...
2026, “The Falling Cost of Basic Income: Updated and Expanded Back-of-the-Envelope Calculations.” Basic Income Studies, pages 1-37. DOI: doi.org/10.1515/bis-...
The Falling Cost of Basic Income in the United States, 1967–2024: Estimates for a Plan Large Enough to Eliminate Poverty
This article estimates the cost of Universal Basic Income (UBI) sufficient to eliminate poverty in the United States. It uses the most recent microdata available from the Census Bureau through its Cur...
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January 16, 2026 at 4:18 PM
UBI debates must separate gross vs net cost. In the US, a $16k adult / $8k child UBI has a $4.86T gross cost, but a $605.5B net cost after offsets. Therefor, the real cost is about one-seventh of the headline number.
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Progressives HAVE been weighing in.
-universal health care
-streamlining immigration processes
-universal basic income
-more funding for childcare
But no one wanted to listen.
-universal health care
-streamlining immigration processes
-universal basic income
-more funding for childcare
But no one wanted to listen.
The US and other countries face aging, shrinking populations. Conservatives have shaped debate over the issue. Some liberals say it's time for progressives to weigh in.
As birthrates tumble, some progressives say the left needs to offer ideas and solutions
The US and other countries face aging, shrinking populations. Conservatives have shaped debate over the issue. Some liberals say it's time for progressives to weigh in.
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January 14, 2026 at 12:40 AM
Progressives HAVE been weighing in.
-universal health care
-streamlining immigration processes
-universal basic income
-more funding for childcare
But no one wanted to listen.
-universal health care
-streamlining immigration processes
-universal basic income
-more funding for childcare
But no one wanted to listen.
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I am pleased to announce that I have taken Texas. It's clear those that had it couldn't run it so I will. This state will have universal basic income for everyone who makes less than $100K/yr paid for by taxing the rich & the corporations, esp oil & gas. Thank you for your attention to this matter!
I am pleased to announce that I have commandeered my neighbor's home. This home will be sold at its Market Price, and that money will be controlled by me, to ensure it is used to benefit my neighbor and me! Thank you for your attention to this matter!
January 7, 2026 at 4:36 AM
I am pleased to announce that I have taken Texas. It's clear those that had it couldn't run it so I will. This state will have universal basic income for everyone who makes less than $100K/yr paid for by taxing the rich & the corporations, esp oil & gas. Thank you for your attention to this matter!
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I would continue my job as I truly like it. But basic income would take a lot of stress out of handling my loans etc. I could use money more freely to fun stuff like eating in a restaurant and travelling.
Honest question: If everyone got Universal Basic Income, no strings attached, what would YOU do with it?
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January 4, 2026 at 3:45 PM
I would continue my job as I truly like it. But basic income would take a lot of stress out of handling my loans etc. I could use money more freely to fun stuff like eating in a restaurant and travelling.
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Every means-tested program creates two costs:
1. Administration
2. Fraud prevention
Universal Basic Income eliminates both by design. If everyone qualifies, there’s nothing to game.
1. Administration
2. Fraud prevention
Universal Basic Income eliminates both by design. If everyone qualifies, there’s nothing to game.
December 30, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Every means-tested program creates two costs:
1. Administration
2. Fraud prevention
Universal Basic Income eliminates both by design. If everyone qualifies, there’s nothing to game.
1. Administration
2. Fraud prevention
Universal Basic Income eliminates both by design. If everyone qualifies, there’s nothing to game.
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Universal Basic Income now
The world’s 500 richest people have total wealth of $11.9tn.
Their wealth up by $2.2tn in 2025. 8 billionaires accounting for a 25% of the gains.
No one becomes this rich by working.
They fund right-wing parties, oppose worker/human rights, cause more pollution than normal people.
Their wealth up by $2.2tn in 2025. 8 billionaires accounting for a 25% of the gains.
No one becomes this rich by working.
They fund right-wing parties, oppose worker/human rights, cause more pollution than normal people.
Billionaires added record $2.2tn in wealth in 2025
Just eight billionaires accounted for a quarter of the gains, led by Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Larry Ellison and Larry Page
www.theguardian.com
January 1, 2026 at 8:54 AM
Universal Basic Income now
Wwwwhat—
Did I just read “crowdfunded UBI app”? 👀
Did I just read “crowdfunded UBI app”? 👀
January 3, 2026 at 2:49 AM
Wwwwhat—
Did I just read “crowdfunded UBI app”? 👀
Did I just read “crowdfunded UBI app”? 👀
“When I was awarded this money, it was overwhelming. It is a lot of money to people like us – I felt like I’d won the lottery. I bought a phone, laptop and printer so I can do a college course. I want to do civil law so I can advocate for people who are homeless. Getting this money gives you hope.”
#GoodNews - not quite #UniversalBasicIncome, but headed in that direction.
With the understanding that people in poverty's problem is lack of money
#UBI @ubilabnetwork.bsky.social
www.bigissue.com/news/housing...
With the understanding that people in poverty's problem is lack of money
#UBI @ubilabnetwork.bsky.social
www.bigissue.com/news/housing...
Homeless people were given free money, no strings attached. Here's what happened
A new trial gave homeless people £2,000 to spend however they choose. What they spent the money on may surprise you.
www.bigissue.com
January 2, 2026 at 8:16 PM
“When I was awarded this money, it was overwhelming. It is a lot of money to people like us – I felt like I’d won the lottery. I bought a phone, laptop and printer so I can do a college course. I want to do civil law so I can advocate for people who are homeless. Getting this money gives you hope.”
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I would use it to ensure my family had a better, safer, and healthier lifestyle that isn't available without access to products/services that have no inexpensive option available.
Honest question: If everyone got Universal Basic Income, no strings attached, what would YOU do with it?
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January 2, 2026 at 5:03 PM
I would use it to ensure my family had a better, safer, and healthier lifestyle that isn't available without access to products/services that have no inexpensive option available.
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Land is a commons. Every human depends on it to exist. When exclusive ownership is enforced, everyone else is implicitly paying rent just to live.
This framing is meant to provoke thought in helping the UBI community better understand the argument. UBI is justice for being denied the commons.
This framing is meant to provoke thought in helping the UBI community better understand the argument. UBI is justice for being denied the commons.
January 1, 2026 at 5:51 AM
Land is a commons. Every human depends on it to exist. When exclusive ownership is enforced, everyone else is implicitly paying rent just to live.
This framing is meant to provoke thought in helping the UBI community better understand the argument. UBI is justice for being denied the commons.
This framing is meant to provoke thought in helping the UBI community better understand the argument. UBI is justice for being denied the commons.
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We should have implemented a universal basic income in 1975 and indexed it to grow as productivity grew. That was the only realistic way of ensuring that productivity growth benefited all of us. To this day, UBI remains the most important thing to start to make sure we *ALL* benefit from GDP growth.
Since 1975, $79 trillion in wealth has been redistributed from the bottom 90% to the top 1% — a 1% that now owns more wealth than the bottom 93%.
We can respect innovation & entrepreneurship, but we cannot respect the extraordinary greed that now exists.
We need a wealth tax.
We can respect innovation & entrepreneurship, but we cannot respect the extraordinary greed that now exists.
We need a wealth tax.
December 30, 2025 at 12:29 AM
We should have implemented a universal basic income in 1975 and indexed it to grow as productivity grew. That was the only realistic way of ensuring that productivity growth benefited all of us. To this day, UBI remains the most important thing to start to make sure we *ALL* benefit from GDP growth.
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People ask, “How do we fund UBI?”
That’s skipping the first question:
how did a few people get so rich in the first place?
The answer isn’t just hard work.
It’s control of land, resources, and systems everyone depends on
UBI is the share everyone gets when access is taken away
That’s skipping the first question:
how did a few people get so rich in the first place?
The answer isn’t just hard work.
It’s control of land, resources, and systems everyone depends on
UBI is the share everyone gets when access is taken away
It has to be paid for somehow. The ideal to me is a wealth transfer from the uber rich to everyone else.
You can talk about rights all day, but the money has to come from somewhere.
You can talk about rights all day, but the money has to come from somewhere.
December 28, 2025 at 7:06 PM
People ask, “How do we fund UBI?”
That’s skipping the first question:
how did a few people get so rich in the first place?
The answer isn’t just hard work.
It’s control of land, resources, and systems everyone depends on
UBI is the share everyone gets when access is taken away
That’s skipping the first question:
how did a few people get so rich in the first place?
The answer isn’t just hard work.
It’s control of land, resources, and systems everyone depends on
UBI is the share everyone gets when access is taken away
What’s your take on private property land owners paying us all rent?
Enclosing the commons removed access to shelter and subsistence, forcing labor by exclusion
Rent on private property, once understood, is the logical outcome and is returned to all as a social dividend #UBI
This fulfills Lockean compensation for the loss of the commons
Rent on private property, once understood, is the logical outcome and is returned to all as a social dividend #UBI
This fulfills Lockean compensation for the loss of the commons
December 28, 2025 at 1:58 PM
What’s your take on private property land owners paying us all rent?
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Basic Income in Canada is closer than you think
Basic Income isn’t a utopian dream. It is a real policy initiative that is working its way through Parliament right now.
#cdnpoli #canada #UBI
rabble.ca/columnists/b...
Basic Income isn’t a utopian dream. It is a real policy initiative that is working its way through Parliament right now.
#cdnpoli #canada #UBI
rabble.ca/columnists/b...
Basic Income in Canada is closer than you think
Basic Income isn't a utopian dream. It is a real policy initiative that is working its way through Parliament right now.
rabble.ca
December 26, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Basic Income in Canada is closer than you think
Basic Income isn’t a utopian dream. It is a real policy initiative that is working its way through Parliament right now.
#cdnpoli #canada #UBI
rabble.ca/columnists/b...
Basic Income isn’t a utopian dream. It is a real policy initiative that is working its way through Parliament right now.
#cdnpoli #canada #UBI
rabble.ca/columnists/b...
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wish they would just say UBI and universal healthcare “won’t work” bc keeping people sick and stressed and scared is the only thing allowing me personally to rob them blind
I wish they would just come out and say "it won't work because if people don't have that sword hanging over their head they won't feel as compelled to accept shitty pay, and also I want to make money off of it" because those are the actual reasons
December 25, 2025 at 9:59 PM
wish they would just say UBI and universal healthcare “won’t work” bc keeping people sick and stressed and scared is the only thing allowing me personally to rob them blind
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And the same is true for universal basic income. The entire economy is oriented around the default setting of desperation to survive amidst maldistributed abundance.
Almost every argument against universal health care is just a guy who makes 200k a year sending emails saying "but the flea and tick lobby will be really upset if we give the dog a bath"
December 26, 2025 at 5:52 AM
And the same is true for universal basic income. The entire economy is oriented around the default setting of desperation to survive amidst maldistributed abundance.
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We're very pleased to announce the launch of our new UBI 101 Toolkit! 🚀
It’s designed to help you feel more confident talking about #UBI, sharing the big ideas behind it, and understanding the direction we’re heading as a network.
Link to download and share 👉
www.ubilabnetwork.org/ubi-toolkit
It’s designed to help you feel more confident talking about #UBI, sharing the big ideas behind it, and understanding the direction we’re heading as a network.
Link to download and share 👉
www.ubilabnetwork.org/ubi-toolkit
UBI Toolkit — UBI Lab Network
www.ubilabnetwork.org
November 22, 2025 at 2:48 PM
We're very pleased to announce the launch of our new UBI 101 Toolkit! 🚀
It’s designed to help you feel more confident talking about #UBI, sharing the big ideas behind it, and understanding the direction we’re heading as a network.
Link to download and share 👉
www.ubilabnetwork.org/ubi-toolkit
It’s designed to help you feel more confident talking about #UBI, sharing the big ideas behind it, and understanding the direction we’re heading as a network.
Link to download and share 👉
www.ubilabnetwork.org/ubi-toolkit
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Do what my purpose in life is and always been: create. Music, art, poetry, travel and make art and photos and poems about it. Return to the semi-Nomadland life I lived for awhile, and got so much material to create about. Write. Share it. Teach it. Live it.
Honest question: If everyone got Universal Basic Income, no strings attached, what would YOU do with it?
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December 24, 2025 at 3:26 AM
Do what my purpose in life is and always been: create. Music, art, poetry, travel and make art and photos and poems about it. Return to the semi-Nomadland life I lived for awhile, and got so much material to create about. Write. Share it. Teach it. Live it.
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Spend my days writing, making art and learning all the different arts and crafts that I wanna learn. Also get into baking again, I miss it 🥺
Honest question: If everyone got Universal Basic Income, no strings attached, what would YOU do with it?
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December 23, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Spend my days writing, making art and learning all the different arts and crafts that I wanna learn. Also get into baking again, I miss it 🥺
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Depends on how much we're talking about. If it just replaced my pension, I would still be hanging on by my fingertips.
An extra thousand per month? I might become a digital nomad, make travelogues for places further and further away.
Or build the house Sara & I dreamed of.
An extra thousand per month? I might become a digital nomad, make travelogues for places further and further away.
Or build the house Sara & I dreamed of.
Honest question: If everyone got Universal Basic Income, no strings attached, what would YOU do with it?
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December 22, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Depends on how much we're talking about. If it just replaced my pension, I would still be hanging on by my fingertips.
An extra thousand per month? I might become a digital nomad, make travelogues for places further and further away.
Or build the house Sara & I dreamed of.
An extra thousand per month? I might become a digital nomad, make travelogues for places further and further away.
Or build the house Sara & I dreamed of.
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Baseline: cover utilities (water/electricity/internet/etc.) and food.
Remainder? Reinvest it in expanding what I can do and create.
I can put some cash aside over time to finish the basement and turn it into a workshop, meaning I'd be able to make physical goods to sell.
Remainder? Reinvest it in expanding what I can do and create.
I can put some cash aside over time to finish the basement and turn it into a workshop, meaning I'd be able to make physical goods to sell.
Honest question: If everyone got Universal Basic Income, no strings attached, what would YOU do with it?
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December 22, 2025 at 3:11 AM
Baseline: cover utilities (water/electricity/internet/etc.) and food.
Remainder? Reinvest it in expanding what I can do and create.
I can put some cash aside over time to finish the basement and turn it into a workshop, meaning I'd be able to make physical goods to sell.
Remainder? Reinvest it in expanding what I can do and create.
I can put some cash aside over time to finish the basement and turn it into a workshop, meaning I'd be able to make physical goods to sell.
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I genuinely don’t know what I would do with myself. Might keep teaching, might go full time research (or take leave to finish my degree). Go to way more conferences.
But first pay off debt.
But first pay off debt.
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December 22, 2025 at 4:23 PM
I genuinely don’t know what I would do with myself. Might keep teaching, might go full time research (or take leave to finish my degree). Go to way more conferences.
But first pay off debt.
But first pay off debt.
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I would move to a mountain and write books, and volunteer in the local school on the side.
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December 22, 2025 at 5:15 PM
I would move to a mountain and write books, and volunteer in the local school on the side.
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Start my own business.
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December 19, 2025 at 12:31 AM
Start my own business.