Preliminary results from the Denver Basic Income Project that's providing cash to hundreds of unhoused people for one year, using the first 6 months of data:
• NO ONE receiving $1,000/mo still sleeping outside
• Full-time employment increased
• Fewer visits to the ER
• Fewer nights spent in jail
• Reduced use of social and public services
Read the full report: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1gqtOfZG2sSanWgUdzn-lx-pwSXZKabj-/view?pli=1
I think things are coming to a head sooner rather than later.
"Nobody became a billionaire through kindness. And nobody with power actually suffers any real consequences for being a malignant prick.
In this reality, it makes complete sense that the height of comedy for many people is the delight that comes from watching rich people eat shit." #EatTheRich
https://www.thedailybeast.com/eating-the-rich-sounds-pretty-good-to-most-of-us-right-now
Speaking of which, hot new robots.txt entry just dropped:
User-agent: GPTBot
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