Universal Basic Income - where everyone has enough income to afford basic needs like food and housing - is a moral imperative. (note I did not include healthcare or education because those should be free)

The argument "well if you pay people enough to live on they might not want to work" is puzzling to me... because food and shelter are human rights. The imperative to work... is not. If people don't want to do the crappy jobs if they can live without them, then we'll have to pay people more to do those jobs. As it should be!

Also, fyi, every single trial of ubi has found that people do not, in fact, work less, but they ARE more creative and entrepreneurial.

What's stopping us?

@lindamciver rich people. Rich people are stopping us, by weaponizing propaganda.
@lindamciver Maybe that’s what the taxation review that Chalker is having soon could come up with. Tax the rich and the obscene profit generating companies at higher rates and then fund UBI.
@lindamciver they are also more productive because they aren’t stressed and/or hungry.
@lindamciver This is a great idea, but at least in the US, will not be happening for quite a while.
@ZBennoui @lindamciver not with that attitude it won't, no ;-)
@lindamciver I'm a UBI supporter, but I do wonder if that would still apply if it was guaranteed for life. Personally I would love to live on the minimum and spend all my time doing better things, but taking a year or two out would leave a big hole in my CV making it harder to get back into a decent job when the UBI trial ended. If I knew I didn't have to consider that I would be *gone*.
But more people voluntarily doing what they love instead of working for the money can't be a bad thing surely
@lindamciver a lot of people believe in desperation as a means of control. Even when they are the ones being controlled.