Nik
@nik-kun.bsky.social
Universal Healthcare, Unconditional Basic Income, AI Dividend!
"All watched over by machines of loving grace."
"All watched over by machines of loving grace."
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"We’ll provide a universal basic income if adequate-paying jobs are unavailable. Face it: AI will permanently replace many jobs. No family should be left in the cold. The universal basic income won’t be so high as to make families comfortable, but it will be enough to keep them out of poverty."
What Democrats Must Pledge to America
Ten ways to make America more affordable
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December 5, 2025 at 2:41 PM
"We’ll provide a universal basic income if adequate-paying jobs are unavailable. Face it: AI will permanently replace many jobs. No family should be left in the cold. The universal basic income won’t be so high as to make families comfortable, but it will be enough to keep them out of poverty."
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AI is coming for your job.
‘One day I overheard my boss saying: just put it in ChatGPT’: the workers who lost their jobs to AI
From a radio host replaced by avatars to a comic artist whose drawings have been copied by Midjourney, how does it feel to be replaced by a bot?
www.theguardian.com
May 31, 2025 at 2:05 PM
AI is coming for your job.
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Pete Buttigieg says citizens should get a share of the value created by AI, like a dividend.
"Why shouldn't we all get a share? Instead of it all going to a tiny handful of super wealthy people."
UBI from tech funded by taxpayers.
"Why shouldn't we all get a share? Instead of it all going to a tiny handful of super wealthy people."
UBI from tech funded by taxpayers.
May 12, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Pete Buttigieg says citizens should get a share of the value created by AI, like a dividend.
"Why shouldn't we all get a share? Instead of it all going to a tiny handful of super wealthy people."
UBI from tech funded by taxpayers.
"Why shouldn't we all get a share? Instead of it all going to a tiny handful of super wealthy people."
UBI from tech funded by taxpayers.
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ok but for real if you want to make a really good indie (or AA) games the number one way is "be financially comfortable via other means"
blue prince guy owned a popular website generating income, toby fox was a successful musician...
frankly if we had a UBI youd get SO MANY GOOD GAMES
blue prince guy owned a popular website generating income, toby fox was a successful musician...
frankly if we had a UBI youd get SO MANY GOOD GAMES
May 11, 2025 at 7:21 PM
ok but for real if you want to make a really good indie (or AA) games the number one way is "be financially comfortable via other means"
blue prince guy owned a popular website generating income, toby fox was a successful musician...
frankly if we had a UBI youd get SO MANY GOOD GAMES
blue prince guy owned a popular website generating income, toby fox was a successful musician...
frankly if we had a UBI youd get SO MANY GOOD GAMES
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I've spent the last half year investigating the nefarious interests behind the anti-AI Backlash. The results were surprising.
May 2, 2025 at 6:23 PM
I've spent the last half year investigating the nefarious interests behind the anti-AI Backlash. The results were surprising.
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The focus should be on implementing stuff like UBI, not trying to fruitlessly put stuff back in Pandora's Box.
We should've had UBI even before all of this, and it's even more important now.
We should've had UBI even before all of this, and it's even more important now.
March 30, 2025 at 1:26 PM
The focus should be on implementing stuff like UBI, not trying to fruitlessly put stuff back in Pandora's Box.
We should've had UBI even before all of this, and it's even more important now.
We should've had UBI even before all of this, and it's even more important now.
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I'm so sick of billionaires talking about how they're going to eliminate jobs without also talking about how badly we need universal basic income and what they're personally doing to make it happen as soon as possible. They already owe us restitution for decades of unshared productivity growth.
March 27, 2025 at 10:30 PM
I'm so sick of billionaires talking about how they're going to eliminate jobs without also talking about how badly we need universal basic income and what they're personally doing to make it happen as soon as possible. They already owe us restitution for decades of unshared productivity growth.
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It is no coincidence that so much of the US is poor, and the rich have gotten so rich. Stop looking down to find someone to blame. Stop looking at your neighbors to find someone to blame. LOOK UP. Inequality is destroying us.
March 12, 2025 at 11:58 PM
It is no coincidence that so much of the US is poor, and the rich have gotten so rich. Stop looking down to find someone to blame. Stop looking at your neighbors to find someone to blame. LOOK UP. Inequality is destroying us.
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About those $5,000 "DOGE dividend" checks, if they actually happen, they're going to be more like <$200, and that's per household not per person, and none will go to the bottom 40% of households, which includes at least a third of all Trump voters. This is not even close to a UBI.
What's the deal with the $5,000 'DOGE Dividend' checks?
Is it like a stimulus check, or a tax credit, or even universal basic income? Read on.
On February 18, 2025, a man named James Fishback (an advisor to the 'Department of Government Efficiency') sha...
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February 22, 2025 at 12:30 PM
About those $5,000 "DOGE dividend" checks, if they actually happen, they're going to be more like <$200, and that's per household not per person, and none will go to the bottom 40% of households, which includes at least a third of all Trump voters. This is not even close to a UBI.
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My biggest argument for UBI is to just think of a world in which our survival needs are no longer locked behind labor.
Less people trapped in abusive relationships. Less scamming as people don't need to wheel and deal for money to survive.
Think of what we could create together
Less people trapped in abusive relationships. Less scamming as people don't need to wheel and deal for money to survive.
Think of what we could create together
February 18, 2025 at 6:50 PM
My biggest argument for UBI is to just think of a world in which our survival needs are no longer locked behind labor.
Less people trapped in abusive relationships. Less scamming as people don't need to wheel and deal for money to survive.
Think of what we could create together
Less people trapped in abusive relationships. Less scamming as people don't need to wheel and deal for money to survive.
Think of what we could create together
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A big justification for universal basic income is that if the real median wage had grown as much as productivity grew over this same period of time, all three lines would be near $50 per hour. UBI can be seen as a GDP dividend. Wages will never fairly distribute GDP growth. UBI can do it directly.
February 6, 2025 at 9:13 PM
A big justification for universal basic income is that if the real median wage had grown as much as productivity grew over this same period of time, all three lines would be near $50 per hour. UBI can be seen as a GDP dividend. Wages will never fairly distribute GDP growth. UBI can do it directly.
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Stop it. Enough. The tests for deservedness are wasteful and stigma-creating. No one cares what wealthy people do with all their passive income. Just provide universal basic income as a universal floor. Treat the poor and middle class like the rich. Let jobs increase total income. End welfare traps.
Some people on sickness and disability benefits ‘taking the mickey’, says Liz Kendall – UK politics live
Some people on sickness and disability benefits ‘taking the mickey’, says Liz Kendall – UK politics live
The work and pensions secretary said those who think they were unable to work probably could with the right support
Good morning. Keir Starmer is chairing an extended meeting of cabinet today. There will be a normal cabinet meeting, and then a political…
www.theguardian.com
February 7, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Stop it. Enough. The tests for deservedness are wasteful and stigma-creating. No one cares what wealthy people do with all their passive income. Just provide universal basic income as a universal floor. Treat the poor and middle class like the rich. Let jobs increase total income. End welfare traps.
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If you are a supporter of UBI, this thread is worth reading.
I use to have my reservation about this, but the more I read and the facts I see about it, it's clear, UBI is not just about dignity but economic growth as well.
#UBI #UniversalBasicIncome
I use to have my reservation about this, but the more I read and the facts I see about it, it's clear, UBI is not just about dignity but economic growth as well.
#UBI #UniversalBasicIncome
I've been researching the idea of Unconditional Universal Basic Income since 2013. Here's a collection of findings I've compiled from various UBI experiments and studies of cash transfer programs around the world.
This will be a VERY LONG and ongoing thread focused entirely on empirical evidence. 🧵
This will be a VERY LONG and ongoing thread focused entirely on empirical evidence. 🧵
January 31, 2025 at 6:58 PM
If you are a supporter of UBI, this thread is worth reading.
I use to have my reservation about this, but the more I read and the facts I see about it, it's clear, UBI is not just about dignity but economic growth as well.
#UBI #UniversalBasicIncome
I use to have my reservation about this, but the more I read and the facts I see about it, it's clear, UBI is not just about dignity but economic growth as well.
#UBI #UniversalBasicIncome
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Enough dystopia. Just do universal basic income and tax the rich. Stop coming with ways of determining the deserving. Provide universally and tax those with high incomes more than they get. Done.
‘Serious concerns’ about DWP’s use of AI to read correspondence from benefit claimants www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
‘Serious concerns’ about DWP’s use of AI to read correspondence from benefit claimants
White mail system handles ‘highly sensitive personal data’ and people not told it is processing their information
www.theguardian.com
January 27, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Enough dystopia. Just do universal basic income and tax the rich. Stop coming with ways of determining the deserving. Provide universally and tax those with high incomes more than they get. Done.
Stories like these are only going to become more & more commonplace from now on!
We NEED to DEMAND an AI Dividend for All or UBI, NOW!
AI exists thanks to a societal quantity of data collected from all of us, so it owes us all a return on that data-investment.
If we don't, our economy will collapse.
We NEED to DEMAND an AI Dividend for All or UBI, NOW!
AI exists thanks to a societal quantity of data collected from all of us, so it owes us all a return on that data-investment.
If we don't, our economy will collapse.
AI Made Me Jobless - Artificial Intelligence Is Taking Over Jobs - TikTok Rants #unemployment
YouTube video by Keeping Up With TikTok
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January 23, 2025 at 2:48 AM
Stories like these are only going to become more & more commonplace from now on!
We NEED to DEMAND an AI Dividend for All or UBI, NOW!
AI exists thanks to a societal quantity of data collected from all of us, so it owes us all a return on that data-investment.
If we don't, our economy will collapse.
We NEED to DEMAND an AI Dividend for All or UBI, NOW!
AI exists thanks to a societal quantity of data collected from all of us, so it owes us all a return on that data-investment.
If we don't, our economy will collapse.
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Universal Basic Income and Universal Healthcare [and that includes dentistry wtf].
For EVERYONE. If you exist, you deserve these basic fucking needs met. Think about how much progress we could make as a society if these simple needs were met.
For EVERYONE. If you exist, you deserve these basic fucking needs met. Think about how much progress we could make as a society if these simple needs were met.
January 1, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Universal Basic Income and Universal Healthcare [and that includes dentistry wtf].
For EVERYONE. If you exist, you deserve these basic fucking needs met. Think about how much progress we could make as a society if these simple needs were met.
For EVERYONE. If you exist, you deserve these basic fucking needs met. Think about how much progress we could make as a society if these simple needs were met.
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Yes, please! I want UBI more than almost any other social safety net. I mean, I want them all, yes, but UBI would be an absolute god-send for me. It would single-handedly solve my biggest stressors and enable my creativity like never before. I *crave* UBI.
December 28, 2024 at 7:14 AM
Yes, please! I want UBI more than almost any other social safety net. I mean, I want them all, yes, but UBI would be an absolute god-send for me. It would single-handedly solve my biggest stressors and enable my creativity like never before. I *crave* UBI.
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"Don’t shy away from talking about an automation tax that funds a Universal Basic income..."
Yes. Embrace UBI. Frame it as an automation dividend. Our data is the capital that trained AI. We deserve to be treated like stockholders. Pay us.
Yes. Embrace UBI. Frame it as an automation dividend. Our data is the capital that trained AI. We deserve to be treated like stockholders. Pay us.
Democrats If you are Listening...
This is how I see the future of the Democratic party. Do you agree?
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This is how I see the future of the Democratic party. Do you agree?
krassencast.com/p/10-ways-de...
10 Ways Democrats Can Win Big on Jobs, Tech—And Make Politics Cool Again
A Framework for 2026 & 2028
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December 21, 2024 at 7:59 PM
"Don’t shy away from talking about an automation tax that funds a Universal Basic income..."
Yes. Embrace UBI. Frame it as an automation dividend. Our data is the capital that trained AI. We deserve to be treated like stockholders. Pay us.
Yes. Embrace UBI. Frame it as an automation dividend. Our data is the capital that trained AI. We deserve to be treated like stockholders. Pay us.
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It should not be considered politically viable to even mention something like this without simultaneously talking about the need for Universal Basic Income. It should be considered political malpractice to leave UBI unmentioned.
Keir Starmer, "AI is going to be transformative for the better in art, culture, industry, government, public services.. Not ten years but five"
"Getting the balance right between the potential of AI and the protection of copyright"
"Getting the balance right between the potential of AI and the protection of copyright"
December 20, 2024 at 1:48 PM
It should not be considered politically viable to even mention something like this without simultaneously talking about the need for Universal Basic Income. It should be considered political malpractice to leave UBI unmentioned.
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AI companies were never going to let IP laws get in the way. The demand needs to be for universal basic income as a dividend. We are all owed UBI for AI being trained on our data and our work. And this goes back generations even to AI trained on public domain works.
medium.com/@GarAlperovi...
medium.com/@GarAlperovi...
Technological Inheritance and the Case for a Basic Income
One or another form of unconditional “basic income” has now been advocated by individuals ranging from conservative economists like the…
medium.com
December 18, 2024 at 1:19 PM
AI companies were never going to let IP laws get in the way. The demand needs to be for universal basic income as a dividend. We are all owed UBI for AI being trained on our data and our work. And this goes back generations even to AI trained on public domain works.
medium.com/@GarAlperovi...
medium.com/@GarAlperovi...
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WE'RE THE ONLY SPECIES WHO MUST PAY TO EXIST. In a private property system, where all the land was claimed by those with the power at the time, long we were born, and all we need to stay alive costs money, unconditional basic income is a BASIC 👏 HUMAN 👏 RIGHT 👏 to the resources we all need to EXIST.
December 18, 2024 at 10:46 PM
WE'RE THE ONLY SPECIES WHO MUST PAY TO EXIST. In a private property system, where all the land was claimed by those with the power at the time, long we were born, and all we need to stay alive costs money, unconditional basic income is a BASIC 👏 HUMAN 👏 RIGHT 👏 to the resources we all need to EXIST.
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The Monsters, Inc. Argument for Basic Income
YouTube video by UBIVisuals
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December 18, 2024 at 10:29 PM
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I've been researching the idea of Unconditional Universal Basic Income since 2013. Here's a collection of findings I've compiled from various UBI experiments and studies of cash transfer programs around the world.
This will be a VERY LONG and ongoing thread focused entirely on empirical evidence. 🧵
This will be a VERY LONG and ongoing thread focused entirely on empirical evidence. 🧵
December 5, 2024 at 3:47 PM
I've been researching the idea of Unconditional Universal Basic Income since 2013. Here's a collection of findings I've compiled from various UBI experiments and studies of cash transfer programs around the world.
This will be a VERY LONG and ongoing thread focused entirely on empirical evidence. 🧵
This will be a VERY LONG and ongoing thread focused entirely on empirical evidence. 🧵
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"This systematic review synthesizes the current Universal Basic Income research…The findings indicate that UBI can help alleviate poverty-related stress, potentially leading to better mental and physical health outcomes through improved nutrition, more stable housing, and greater life satisfaction."
Hot off the press!
"UNIVERSAL BASIC INCOME POLICY AND ITS POTENTIAL IMPACT ON WELFARE REFORM"
- by Adriana S. Hines and Lindsay Gietzen from University of the Pacific
scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/pjh/vol7/iss...
"UNIVERSAL BASIC INCOME POLICY AND ITS POTENTIAL IMPACT ON WELFARE REFORM"
- by Adriana S. Hines and Lindsay Gietzen from University of the Pacific
scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/pjh/vol7/iss...
UNIVERSAL BASIC INCOME POLICY AND ITS POTENTIAL IMPACT ON WELFARE REFORM
This systematic review synthesizes the current Universal Basic Income (UBI) research. As income inequality continues to affect health outcomes, UBI has been proposed as a strategy to reduce gaps in he...
scholarlycommons.pacific.edu
December 15, 2024 at 5:48 PM
"This systematic review synthesizes the current Universal Basic Income research…The findings indicate that UBI can help alleviate poverty-related stress, potentially leading to better mental and physical health outcomes through improved nutrition, more stable housing, and greater life satisfaction."