Mark Donovan
@markpatrickdonovan.bsky.social
Founder of Denver Basic Income Project. Demonstrating how a guaranteed basic income will benefit everyone in society. Seeking impact strategies that stick. Open to collab!
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This is ✨Senator Kim Pate✨
Canada's champion for Basic Income in Parliament
She just gave one of the most iconic speeches ever
- it's cheaper than poverty
- encourages work and entrepreneurs
- cuts crime and helps victims of abuse
We break it down🧵
Canada's champion for Basic Income in Parliament
She just gave one of the most iconic speeches ever
- it's cheaper than poverty
- encourages work and entrepreneurs
- cuts crime and helps victims of abuse
We break it down🧵
June 13, 2025 at 6:56 PM
This is ✨Senator Kim Pate✨
Canada's champion for Basic Income in Parliament
She just gave one of the most iconic speeches ever
- it's cheaper than poverty
- encourages work and entrepreneurs
- cuts crime and helps victims of abuse
We break it down🧵
Canada's champion for Basic Income in Parliament
She just gave one of the most iconic speeches ever
- it's cheaper than poverty
- encourages work and entrepreneurs
- cuts crime and helps victims of abuse
We break it down🧵
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Study out of India finds that reducing financial concerns could increase productivity. A cash infusion led to paying off debts followed by becoming more productive at work. Output increased by 7%, and they made fewer costly, unintentional mistakes.
Now imagine UBI.
academic.oup.com/qje/article-...
Now imagine UBI.
academic.oup.com/qje/article-...
June 12, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Study out of India finds that reducing financial concerns could increase productivity. A cash infusion led to paying off debts followed by becoming more productive at work. Output increased by 7%, and they made fewer costly, unintentional mistakes.
Now imagine UBI.
academic.oup.com/qje/article-...
Now imagine UBI.
academic.oup.com/qje/article-...
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"AI isn't coming for everybody's job — it's coming for the jobs of people who don't learn to use AI."
I don't think he means for that to come off as a threat, but it is.
Here's the deal. Everyone should benefit from AI, whether you choose to use it or not, your work helped train the AI.
#UBINOW
I don't think he means for that to come off as a threat, but it is.
Here's the deal. Everyone should benefit from AI, whether you choose to use it or not, your work helped train the AI.
#UBINOW
Faisal Masud, president of HP Digital Services, shares how fresh grads can leverage AI tools to give themselves a competitive edge in the job market.
An HP president says AI isn't coming for everybody's job, only the jobs of people who don't learn to use it
Faisal Masud, president of HP Digital Services, shares how fresh grads can leverage AI tools to give themselves a competitive edge in the job market.
www.businessinsider.com
June 12, 2025 at 12:26 PM
"AI isn't coming for everybody's job — it's coming for the jobs of people who don't learn to use AI."
I don't think he means for that to come off as a threat, but it is.
Here's the deal. Everyone should benefit from AI, whether you choose to use it or not, your work helped train the AI.
#UBINOW
I don't think he means for that to come off as a threat, but it is.
Here's the deal. Everyone should benefit from AI, whether you choose to use it or not, your work helped train the AI.
#UBINOW
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Help grow the conversation around universal basic income by boosting posts about it and doing your part to be and stay informed. I try to make it easier to do these things. Use my timeline. Use my pinned thread. Use my YT channel. Help get UBI mentioned more often and widely as a key policy demand!
June 11, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Help grow the conversation around universal basic income by boosting posts about it and doing your part to be and stay informed. I try to make it easier to do these things. Use my timeline. Use my pinned thread. Use my YT channel. Help get UBI mentioned more often and widely as a key policy demand!
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"We will have to consider UBI in some form. AI will cause great abundance, great GDP growth, great productivity growth, all the things economists measure, and increasing income disparity." - Vinod Khosla
June 10, 2025 at 12:09 AM
"We will have to consider UBI in some form. AI will cause great abundance, great GDP growth, great productivity growth, all the things economists measure, and increasing income disparity." - Vinod Khosla
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BREAKING: Lee Jae-myung who previously ran on UBI elected South Korea's new president
June 3, 2025 at 8:07 PM
BREAKING: Lee Jae-myung who previously ran on UBI elected South Korea's new president
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One in four workers in the US is now “functionally unemployed,” meaning they either want but can’t find full-time work or are stuck in poverty-paycheck jobs. A higher minimum wage alone can't solve this because it would increase automation and decrease hours. We need a universal basic income floor.
New research shows 1 in 4 Americans are 'functionally unemployed'
Research released this month has show that about one in four Americans are unable to find living wage jobs.
local12.com
May 27, 2025 at 12:58 PM
One in four workers in the US is now “functionally unemployed,” meaning they either want but can’t find full-time work or are stuck in poverty-paycheck jobs. A higher minimum wage alone can't solve this because it would increase automation and decrease hours. We need a universal basic income floor.
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Universal Basic Income.
Don’t let anyone tell you it’s not possible.
Don’t let anyone tell you it’s not possible.
May 27, 2025 at 5:07 AM
Universal Basic Income.
Don’t let anyone tell you it’s not possible.
Don’t let anyone tell you it’s not possible.
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Letter from a supporter to Canadian PM candidates
Basic income leaves most of us more well-off, and all of us better off.
Basic income leaves most of us more well-off, and all of us better off.
May 25, 2025 at 12:01 AM
Letter from a supporter to Canadian PM candidates
Basic income leaves most of us more well-off, and all of us better off.
Basic income leaves most of us more well-off, and all of us better off.
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Discussions around #BasicIncome, automation and AI tends to end up polarising between utopian optimism or inequality-fuelled pessimism
Really enjoyed this piece, outlining "Humanity's Next Leap" powered by Quantum AI & UBI for all zurl.co/QFJPT
Really enjoyed this piece, outlining "Humanity's Next Leap" powered by Quantum AI & UBI for all zurl.co/QFJPT
Humanity’s Next Leap: Quantum AI, UBI And A Fair Chance For All
Universal basic income has been debated for decades. The rise of quantum AI can make it possible at scale, in sustainable ways that free people from financial instability
zurl.co
May 23, 2025 at 8:48 AM
Discussions around #BasicIncome, automation and AI tends to end up polarising between utopian optimism or inequality-fuelled pessimism
Really enjoyed this piece, outlining "Humanity's Next Leap" powered by Quantum AI & UBI for all zurl.co/QFJPT
Really enjoyed this piece, outlining "Humanity's Next Leap" powered by Quantum AI & UBI for all zurl.co/QFJPT
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MASSIVE new study of Iran's UBI-like monthly cash program:
- Adult work didn't go down
- CHILD LABOUR went down to focus on school
- Drug use didn't go up
- Adult work didn't go down
- CHILD LABOUR went down to focus on school
- Drug use didn't go up
May 22, 2025 at 7:09 PM
MASSIVE new study of Iran's UBI-like monthly cash program:
- Adult work didn't go down
- CHILD LABOUR went down to focus on school
- Drug use didn't go up
- Adult work didn't go down
- CHILD LABOUR went down to focus on school
- Drug use didn't go up
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We had a fantastic participant picnic last week at Wash Park in Denver. This gathering was created to connect our participants with one another and celebrate the milestones of our program.
Thank you to everyone for coming!
P.S., the food was top notch 👌🏼
Thank you to everyone for coming!
P.S., the food was top notch 👌🏼
May 22, 2025 at 6:06 PM
We had a fantastic participant picnic last week at Wash Park in Denver. This gathering was created to connect our participants with one another and celebrate the milestones of our program.
Thank you to everyone for coming!
P.S., the food was top notch 👌🏼
Thank you to everyone for coming!
P.S., the food was top notch 👌🏼
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The solution? Direct cash. That’s it.
May 21, 2025 at 10:28 PM
The solution? Direct cash. That’s it.
“There are those timid souls who say this battle cannot be won; that we are condemned to a soulless wealth. I do not agree. We have the power to shape the civilization that we want. But we need your will, your labor, your hearts, if we are to build that kind of society.” Lyndon B. Johnson
May 22, 2025 at 11:24 AM
“There are those timid souls who say this battle cannot be won; that we are condemned to a soulless wealth. I do not agree. We have the power to shape the civilization that we want. But we need your will, your labor, your hearts, if we are to build that kind of society.” Lyndon B. Johnson
“When a flower doesn’t bloom, you fix the environment in which it grows, not the flower.” Alexander den Heijer
May 8, 2025 at 1:09 PM
“When a flower doesn’t bloom, you fix the environment in which it grows, not the flower.” Alexander den Heijer
Calgary‑bound tomorrow for our first in‑person @xprize.org Global Visioneering Brain Trust session (Learning + Society). Honored to help craft prize challenges that reimagine how the world learns and thrives. Big ideas ahead! 🚀
May 7, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Calgary‑bound tomorrow for our first in‑person @xprize.org Global Visioneering Brain Trust session (Learning + Society). Honored to help craft prize challenges that reimagine how the world learns and thrives. Big ideas ahead! 🚀
Karl's arguments make sense to me even if they are not in the current context of our social safety net being dismantled and the increasing threat of AI and robotics to jobs. In the current context the idea of a basic income rises to the level of an urgent imperative.
"Basic Income as Power to the People"
March 31, 2025
March 31, 2025
Basic Income as Power to the People (Janus Debates Preview Part 2) - Karl Widerquist
UBI gives enormous power to the people because it secures the freedom from want for everyone. I’ll argue that, by freeing people from labor-market dependence, it will alter or reverse some of the most...
widerquist.com
April 2, 2025 at 9:51 AM
Karl's arguments make sense to me even if they are not in the current context of our social safety net being dismantled and the increasing threat of AI and robotics to jobs. In the current context the idea of a basic income rises to the level of an urgent imperative.
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We’re thrilled to announce that Hunter Ambrose has joined DBIP as our new Community Power-Building Lead! 🎉
Many know Hunter from her incredible journey—from DBIP Group C participant to fierce advocate for guaranteed income, and now stepping into a full-time role to advance our shared mission. 🧵
Many know Hunter from her incredible journey—from DBIP Group C participant to fierce advocate for guaranteed income, and now stepping into a full-time role to advance our shared mission. 🧵
March 12, 2025 at 5:10 PM
We’re thrilled to announce that Hunter Ambrose has joined DBIP as our new Community Power-Building Lead! 🎉
Many know Hunter from her incredible journey—from DBIP Group C participant to fierce advocate for guaranteed income, and now stepping into a full-time role to advance our shared mission. 🧵
Many know Hunter from her incredible journey—from DBIP Group C participant to fierce advocate for guaranteed income, and now stepping into a full-time role to advance our shared mission. 🧵
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If inequality had remained the same as it was in 1975, every American adult could be getting a universal basic income of $16k a year right now instead of the top 1% sucking it all up for themselves. GET MAD.
Sen. Bernie Sanders highlighted a new analysis showing that the wealthiest 1% has extracted $79 trillion from the bottom 90% of Americans since 1975. In 2023 alone, $3.9 trillion was redirected upward—enough to provide every U.S. worker with a $32,000 raise.
Sanders: 1 Percent Has Sapped $79T in Wealth From Bottom 90 Percent Since 1975
In 2023 alone, $3.9 trillion was sapped from the bottom 90 percent— enough to give every worker a $32,000 raise.
buff.ly
March 6, 2025 at 6:14 PM
If inequality had remained the same as it was in 1975, every American adult could be getting a universal basic income of $16k a year right now instead of the top 1% sucking it all up for themselves. GET MAD.
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Our economy is a system, a "game" that we all have to play. But we aren't all playing by the same set of rules. It’s time for our economy to work for all of us, not just the wealthy. It's time to change the rules.
March 19, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Our economy is a system, a "game" that we all have to play. But we aren't all playing by the same set of rules. It’s time for our economy to work for all of us, not just the wealthy. It's time to change the rules.
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🫂 Join us in this collective effort to expose this false narrative for what it is, and inspire society to dream and fight for an economy that works for all of us. Check out @income-movement.bsky.social’s page to learn more!
March 20, 2025 at 10:30 PM
🫂 Join us in this collective effort to expose this false narrative for what it is, and inspire society to dream and fight for an economy that works for all of us. Check out @income-movement.bsky.social’s page to learn more!
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💬 Their message:
Our economy is a system, a “game” that we all have to play. But we aren’t all playing by the same set of rules. It’s time for our economy to work for all of us, not just the wealthy. It’s time to change the rules.
Our economy is a system, a “game” that we all have to play. But we aren’t all playing by the same set of rules. It’s time for our economy to work for all of us, not just the wealthy. It’s time to change the rules.
March 20, 2025 at 10:29 PM
💬 Their message:
Our economy is a system, a “game” that we all have to play. But we aren’t all playing by the same set of rules. It’s time for our economy to work for all of us, not just the wealthy. It’s time to change the rules.
Our economy is a system, a “game” that we all have to play. But we aren’t all playing by the same set of rules. It’s time for our economy to work for all of us, not just the wealthy. It’s time to change the rules.
One of the most harmful false narratives in the US is that we live in a Meritocracy. It’s a lie that success comes from intelligence, skills, and work ethic, letting us blame the poor, not the system.
What’s your experience with this lie?
What’s your experience with this lie?
March 22, 2025 at 12:02 PM
One of the most harmful false narratives in the US is that we live in a Meritocracy. It’s a lie that success comes from intelligence, skills, and work ethic, letting us blame the poor, not the system.
What’s your experience with this lie?
What’s your experience with this lie?
We aren't all playing by the same set of rules. It’s time for our economy to work for all of us.
March 20, 2025 at 3:35 AM
We aren't all playing by the same set of rules. It’s time for our economy to work for all of us.
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Alaska's been paying yearly oil dividends to every resident since 1980.
Canada should too. Instead, we're squandering 80% of our mineral wealth to private extractors. That's $1,000,000,000,000 or $24,000 per Canadian.
Canada should too. Instead, we're squandering 80% of our mineral wealth to private extractors. That's $1,000,000,000,000 or $24,000 per Canadian.
March 19, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Alaska's been paying yearly oil dividends to every resident since 1980.
Canada should too. Instead, we're squandering 80% of our mineral wealth to private extractors. That's $1,000,000,000,000 or $24,000 per Canadian.
Canada should too. Instead, we're squandering 80% of our mineral wealth to private extractors. That's $1,000,000,000,000 or $24,000 per Canadian.