One of the many arguments for a Universal Basic Income is that it might reduce/prevent copper thefts by desperate people.
Copper thefts are incredibly dangerous and wasteful - people stealing $200 worth of copper cause $50,000 worth of damage to railway signals and pedestrian railway crossings.
And there have been cases where only observant pedestrians prevented serious train crashes after copper thefts broke railway signals.
#universalbasicincome would do all that. The cost is roughly 3% the dividends paid by the Insurance industry. That includes everyone, all 8+ billion. We've known this for 50 years. π
This. Give people living in poverty their dignity and their autonomy.
https://rgmii.org/blog/one-dollar-above-poverty/
From April 2022 to March 2024, 76 families with young children in Yolo County, California participated in a Basic Income study that brought family income a single dollar above the California poverty line, $1,289 per month. Even though the amount of money was small, the outcomes were dramatic, not
"A basic income that allows someone to refuse a poorly paid job, or to strike without falling into poverty, is a tool of power for workers."
https://www.the-bunker.it/en/2026/05/21/whatever-happened-to-universal-basic-income/
Ten years ago, when large language models were still laboratory experiments, an entrepreneur named Sam Altman announced the launch of a long-term study on universal basic income, often abbreviated as UBI. At the time, Altman, whom we now all know as the co-founder of OpenAI, was the president of Y Combinator, Silicon Valleyβs most famous [β¦]
Clara Mattei shares her viewpoint on capitalism in this interesting interivew.
What are your thoughts on capitalism?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9M_dq_0ljsc
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$1M since late June 2024
$10M since May 2007
$100M since April 1836
$1B since January 125AD (the height of the Roman empire)
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Obscure Reasons for the UBI
The usual reasons for a UBI are:
1) lifting people out of poverty
2) less administration
3) universal coverage, with simple rules
This article describes 10 more reasons that seldom get attention:
https://tiereddemocraticgovernance.org/blog_details.php?blog_cat_id=28&id=370
Canada is Already a Partial UBI
But we can't say that socialist phrase:
https://tiereddemocraticgovernance.org/blog_details.php?blog_cat_id=28&id=426
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