Humanists for UBI 🇺🇲

Universal Basic Income is a lynchpin human-centered policy that will enable us to create a socially and ecologically sustainable future. #UBI

[Humanists for UBI 🇺🇲 @Humanists4UBI]

@timothyjward you are on yahoo sports 🤣
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[The Pettiest Laker Fan 🤫 @ThePettiestLA]

Kevin Durant to Steve Nash & Sean Marks:

[Chelsea Fagan @Chelsea_Fagan]

it’s been about four months since we started our four-day workweek experiment and i can honestly say that the idea of a five-day workweek now seems insane looking back, both because three days are necessary for a proper weekend and no job truly needs all five days

[Humanists for UBI 🇺🇲 @Humanists4UBI]

@AndrewYang A better question might be- "What will this policy do for those I know, love, and/or care about?"

[Humanists for UBI 🇺🇲 @Humanists4UBI]

I just wrote a letter to my Congressperson: Recurring Stimulus Checks must be part of Recovery Legislation.
Write one here: https://t.co/IzDHoB6Syu

[Humanists for UBI 🇺🇲 @Humanists4UBI]

I just signed a @theactionnet petition: Congress Petition for UBI. Sign here: https://t.co/wvXTKuW2Ed

[Scott Santens @scottsantens]

This I think is the main reason why we don't already have unconditional basic income, and also why it's so important that we achieve it. UBI is the power born of no longer being desperate, and the freedom to choose the job that's best for you, at the wage you feel is sufficient.

[Humanists for UBI 🇺🇲 @Humanists4UBI]

I just signed a @theactionnet petition: House Progressives: #ForceTheVote on Medicare for All Now. Sign here: https://t.co/RBlo29EQfb

[Gravel Institute @GravelInstitute]

This is what imperial decline looks like.

[Humanists for UBI 🇺🇲 @Humanists4UBI]

@JimNickola @jasonhickel @Autonomy_UK Where is the evidence for this?

[Humanists for UBI 🇺🇲 @Humanists4UBI]

@JimNickola @jasonhickel @Autonomy_UK More bureaucracy= higher likelihood of corruption and obstruction. Growth may not be the purpose of a JG, but it is hard to imagine how it wouldn't use/waste massive amounts of resources. And for what? People can do useful work without a job, they just need income to do so

[Humanists for UBI 🇺🇲 @Humanists4UBI]

@Optimistbot @jasonhickel Have you ever been to a recycling facility? Machines do most of the work. Over producing creates pieces you cannot pick up.

[Humanists for UBI 🇺🇲 @Humanists4UBI]

@JimNickola @jasonhickel @Autonomy_UK A JG would be an albatross to implement and administer. It would also be easy to undermine and abuse at the local level. I just don't see how a JG aligns with the degrowth. The job creation mentality is incompatible with sustainability and will sabotage our efforts to achieve it

[Scott Santens @scottsantens]

Caring for an infant isn't work, unless you get paid to do it for someone else? And it's more valuable to society to make people jump through hoops, than it is to raise kids with love? Screw that. Parents don't need work. They need the work they're already doing to be recognized.

[Humanists for UBI 🇺🇲 @Humanists4UBI]

@greenAndFatty @jasonhickel If given the opportunity to do so, many people would rather care for their own children.

[Humanists for UBI 🇺🇲 @Humanists4UBI]

@JimNickola @jasonhickel @Autonomy_UK The most sustainable job is the one that's not created because either A) the work done does not increase human well-being or B) someone is happily doing the needed human well-being producing work outside of the job structure because they don't need a job to acquire income.

[Humanists for UBI 🇺🇲 @Humanists4UBI]

@JimNickola @jasonhickel @Autonomy_UK I think if people had the autonomy to use their time to pursue the work that they are passionate about and if government provided the means that allowed them to pursue this work - we would not have to worry much about creating jobs.

[Humanists for UBI 🇺🇲 @Humanists4UBI]

@JimNickola @jasonhickel

[Humanists for UBI 🇺🇲 @Humanists4UBI]

@JimNickola @jasonhickel @Autonomy_UK Even with jobs being reimagined, what you're describing is more in line with a jobs program as opposed to a jobs guarantee. I also don't see the need to "jobify" the work that would happily be done if one didn't have to worry about income.

[Humanists for UBI 🇺🇲 @Humanists4UBI]

@JimNickola @jasonhickel What requires a rethink is how we obtain income, not what constitutes a job. Jobism and consumerism are the two pillars that prop up our dysfunctional economic system. There's plenty of evidence that suggests work has ecological limits. See @Autonomy_UK

[Humanists for UBI 🇺🇲 @Humanists4UBI]

@JimNickola @jasonhickel There is important work to be done. That being said, the majority of the most meaningful /well being producing work is not and probably could not be associated with a job. The meaningful work that could be "jobified" is often more project-based and thus would come and go.

[Humanists for UBI 🇺🇲 @Humanists4UBI]

@misterp55 @JimNickola @jasonhickel Why not be paid so you (and many others) could do it- instead of being paid for it?