Marian Dörkmaking public transit free reduces traffic, emissions, and delays. common sense or communism?
Jonathan EmmesediThere are all sorts of things not to like about Aaron Bastani and the Novara Media crowd, but on this fundamental issue of socialised universal basic services he's on the right track. He's talking about a social transformation, not just being a better manager of the current economy.
It's not pie in the sky utopianism either; in Britain, one can see how a push for more public and social housing could start to move us towards the 2100 Bastani envisages.
#UniversalBasicServices #UBS #AaronBastani #TedTalks #Politics #Socialism
A Socialist Perspective on the Pursuit of Happiness | Aaron Bastani | TED
Dorian FurlongerIn my search for ways to help us move towards #diversityrich #qualityoflifeforall based on #openknowledge I haven't yet come across many articles on #UniversalBasicServices, so (even though possibly somewhat biased) this looks as if it could be interesting.
https://reidfoundation.scot/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/The-Case-for-Universalism2.pdf
Light bulbs1/ “Universal Basic Services (UBS) is an alternative case to a Universal Basic Income. Under UBS, the provision of free public services must go beyond health or education to cover other basic necessities (e.g., housing, care, transport, information, nutrition).”
Move the debate from Universal Basic Income to Universal Basic Services | UNESCO Inclusive Policy Lab
Many arguments have been made for Universal Basic Income (UBI) in the debate of revovery from the pandemic. This think piece by Ian Gough makes the alternative case for Universal Basic Services (UBS) as more egalitarian and sustainable than UBI. Importantly, it argues, UBS is also politically more incremental and reformist than the case for a true UBI.
#OMN (Open Media Network)The defeatist Illusion of realism in the era of the #deathcult
Our everyday, often dogmatic "common sense" in capitalism disregards the history of socio-economic material conditions, #classwar, #ecocide, debt, slavery, violence, and oppression. In this we are currently blinded by the myth that there is no alternative to the current crap and broken system, this willfull blindness blinds us and obscures the brutal realities, pushed out of sight, on the edge of our "privileged" western lives. The narrative is too often of inevitability, the market logic […]https://hamishcampbell.com/the-illusion-of-realism-in-the-era-of-the-deathcult/
HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴@Snowshadow
A #MinimumTax?
That exists for #multinationals.
I have moved over to the #UniversalBasicIncome / #UniversalBasicServices camp.
So many volunteers doing great work for free. So many Americans trapped in a listless #BullshitJob because it provides them with #HealthInsurance.
lobster🫶🦞🫶dear friends of #Free #Water,
#imagine if the cost of something was negative? You could get free water in a container AND the supplier gave money to provide #clean water where most needed … so it is paying it forward …
How? Just like free colour papers were introduced in the UK using advertising on the containers …
Not only is it possible. Not only do they have a model/plan for other more than free products …
#UBI #universalbasicservices #universalbasicincome
What can we learn from this? Who might oppose it?
https://www.freewater.io/
#imagine if the cost of something was negative? You could get free water in a container AND the supplier gave money to provide #clean water where most needed … so it is paying it forward …
How? Just like free colour papers were introduced in the UK using advertising on the containers …
Not only is it possible. Not only do they have a model/plan for other more than free products …
#UBI #universalbasicservices #universalbasicincome
What can we learn from this? Who might oppose it?
https://www.freewater.io/
Jake Rayson@Gdac @RickiTarr Absolutely, not everyone can even afford a job. I think the single biggest change that could be facilitated is #UniversalBasicIncome &/or #UniversalBasicServices
Money to live, not money for nothing. The level of poverty & inequality in the UK are disgusting
hawaiianeye797 (Craig F)
Speckdäne#Krautreporter Wie schaffen wir eine gerechtere Gesellschaft? Eine, in der nicht immer mehr Menschen von #Armut oder sozialer Ausgrenzung betroffen sind? Einfache Lösungen gibt es dafür wohl nicht. Neben #BGE kommt aus der #Degrowth-Bewegung jetzt: eine bedingungslose Grundversorgung #BGV für alle – auf Englisch #UniversalBasicServices. Von Katharina Mau https://nitter.net/katharina_mau. Artikel von mir als Abonnent dauerhaft von der Paywall befreit: https://krautreporter.de/4918-eine-konkrete-idee-fur-die-welt-ohne-wachstum-endlich?shared=6627c3fa-fe43-4f29-a463-f67c7f1c8c10
Katharina Mau (@katharina_mau)
Freie Journalistin. Gelernt @Djsde. Teil von @klimajourno. Schwerpunkte: #Klimakrise, #Degrowth sie / ihr @[email protected]