BasicIncomeWexford @BasicIncomeWex

basicincomewexford.website Joined December 2016

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Rutger Bregman @rcbregman

6 years ago

This is huge. One of the biggest tests of basic income so far and the results are - again - very encouraging. vox.com/future-perfect…

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Basic Income Quotes @BaseIncomeQuote

6 years ago

Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey is fascinated by the idea of #BasicIncome as perhaps the most effective way of redistributing his wealth.

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Basic Income Quotes @BaseIncomeQuote

6 years ago

Let's get real. The idea of guaranteeing jobs as a response to machines doing jobs is an absolutely absurd notion. @andrewyangvfa on #BasicIncome VS Federal Jobs Guarantee

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Andrew Yang🧢⬆️🇺🇸 @AndrewYang

6 years ago

It’s all fun and games until Andrew Yang passes you in the polls. 😀👍

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Holy shit. They did it. The crazy bastards did it. @MSNBC created a graphic with photos of the 20 candidates to appear in the first debates, and they actually went so far as to remove @AndrewYang and include someone who didn't even qualify. This is shameless in how brazen it is.

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Basic Income Quotes @BaseIncomeQuote

6 years ago

"This is one reason why so many people in the tech industry want to see some kind of #BasicIncome." 🗨️Yoshua Bengio

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Basic Income Canada @basicincomecdn

6 years ago

40 per cent of existing Canadian jobs will disappear over the coming decade as technology automates their work. How about creating a #BasicIncome for every Canadian? A floor we can all stand on in these very precarious times.

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Basic Income Quotes @BaseIncomeQuote

6 years ago

#Basicincome would mean the dignity of not having to beg when life throws you a curve ball.

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Basic Income Quotes @BaseIncomeQuote

6 years ago

"This notion that supporting people to help them to make a better life for themselves and to be able to participate more in their communities that - somehow that's a bad idea - is just wrong headed. People don't choose to be poor." #BasicIncome 🗨 Kathleen Wynne

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Conrad Shaw @OneConradShaw

6 years ago

Call for #BasicIncome experts! I'm going to be releasing V1 of the #UBIcalculator app very soon, & looking for up to 10 people to populate it with their plans. Please share and tag the best econs, activists, & policy wonks you know. Already got Yang and Santens. #UBI #YangGang

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TheDividendReport🧢🏴 @DividendReport

6 years ago

@JohnDelaney Please say it. Universal Basic Income. I’ve been waiting for the Overton window to shift. Universal Basic Income. It’s not taboo. We talk find a solution that isn’t “well, we gotta have more jobs!” Some of the fastest growing jobs include being servants for the rich.

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George Pickett @thegeorgepi

6 years ago

Something not mentioned about the Freedom Dividend is how much it'll help people out right after they get out of jail. @AndrewYang @scottsantens 76% of inmates go back to jail within 5 years. This will likely reduce significantly with $1000/month to spend out of jail #YangGang

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Rutger Bregman @rcbregman

6 years ago

New study finds bipartisan support for taxing the rich: - 54% of Republicans in favor of higher capital gains tax. - 55% of Republicans support financial transaction tax. - 65% of Republicans want higher tax on incomes over $5 million. It's common sense. washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/…

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Rutger Bregman @rcbregman

6 years ago

What a stunning graph. Growth in health care administrators vs. growth in health care providers in the US. Health care for everyone is not 'too expensive', the current system is.

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Rutger Bregman @rcbregman

6 years ago

If you think much higher taxes on the rich and radical climate action are unrealistic, remember: 'The status quo is totally unrealistic.' - Historian @TimothyDSnyder commenting on my book, this week in Vienna. (Longer version: facebook.com/WienerVorlesun…)

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Scott Santens @scottsantens

6 years ago

"What do we want?!" "WAGE SLAVERY!" "When do we want it?!" "FOREVER!" If machines worked for all of us instead of only the owner class, automation would be embraced, not protested. We need productivity-indexed #UBI ASAFP. medium.com/basic-income/i… #BasicIncome #YangGang

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Rutger Bregman @rcbregman

6 years ago

This is so fascinating. Nonviolent campaigns are *twice* as likely to achieve their goals as violent campaigns. So don't 'punch a Nazi'. Raise your voice. Build a movement. Organize! bbc.com/future/story/2…

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Scott Santens @scottsantens

6 years ago

Poverty is a legal status. Poverty is not having nothing. Poverty is being legally excluded from having sufficient access to resources to exist. We locked up access to natural resources & let the owner class hold all the keys and exchange them for our labor. #PoorPeoplesCampaign

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Rutger Bregman @rcbregman

6 years ago

So the Fed released a new report: - Top 1 % have gotten $21 trillion richer since 1989. - The bottom 50% have gotten $900 billion poorer. The real extremists are those who say American capitalism is working just fine. nymag.com/intelligencer/… (h/t @MattBruenig)

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Rutger Bregman @rcbregman

6 years ago

By the way, the biggest waste of our time is the waste of talent. Many bankers are way too smart to be working on Wall Street. Many coders are way too smart to be working for Uber or Amazon. They should be solving climate change, poverty, disease etc.