Scott Santens
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Writer and Unconditional / Universal Basic Income (UBI) advocate Founder & CEO of UBI-focused nonprofit <a href="http://ITSAfoundation.org">ITSAfoundation.org</a> Sign and share the AI Pledge for Humanity for UBI: <a href="http://aipledgeforhumanity.org">aipledgeforhumanity.org</a> My UBI FAQ: <a href="http://scottsantens.com">scottsantens.com</a> 📩 <a href="http://linktr.ee/scottsantens">linktr.ee/scottsantens</a><br><br>🌉 <a href="https://fed.brid.gy/bsky/scottsantens.com">bridged</a> from 🦋 <a href="https://bsky.app/profile/scottsantens.com">scottsantens.com</a>, follow <a class="h-card u-author mention" rel="me" href="https://bsky.brid.gy/bsky.brid.gy" title="@bsky.brid.gy@bsky.brid.gy">@bsky.brid.gy</a> to interact
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Post #4215901
If you want to do this same thing, then you can join Comingle. It's still in closed beta, but if you want to join, I can give you an invite code. Just ask and I can DM one. We can create a small $200/mo basic income floor together right now via automated mutual aid. A new kind of club wants peopl...
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Post #4092773
Basic income is the power to say no to somebody else's work and the freedom to say yes to your own work—which is not work at all—it's play. RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:4cjybv4o45ojqld22im3vtc4/post/3mrhvjwrd322g
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Post #3436785
"Ms. Raimondo and her colleagues are not fans of a universal basic income, an idea that has gained popularity in Silicon Valley as an answer to job disruption. They emphasize that work provides more than just wages, and plan to focus on helping people find pathways to new jobs." archive.ph/sk4ag
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Post #1475341
I often talk about "decoupling survival from employment." It’s the most important economic shift of our lifetime. If we don’t do this through universal basic income and healthcare, the rise of AI won’t lead to a "golden age of abundance"—it will lead to a crisis of survival for the working class.
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Post #1386653
This was a fun one for me to write. It's the Angine de Poitrine argument for universal basic income. We could have more weird, awesome, truly human stuff like this if we all had UBI. We could have more Einsteins too. And because those things are true, the cost of NOT doing UBI isn't worth it. The Angine de Poitrine Argumen...