It is admirable to successfully make something from scratch. But what does 'scratch' economically mean? Universal Basic Income (UBI) is 'scratch' that facilitates work going into passions that help elevate humanity. #SliceOfLifeThoughts
Possibly my favorite line from this paper is "poverty traps are preventing people from making full use of their abilities and indeed it is the mass squandering of people’s abilities that's the key tragedy of mass poverty."
Without UBI we're mass squandering humanity's potential.
Key finding of a large study of 6,000 households using 11 years of data: "People stay poor because they lack opportunity. It is not their intrinsic characteristics that trap people in poverty but rather their circumstances."
We need money to make money.
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I agree that a @Fwd_Party fan-logo RCV Twitter election would make an educational exploration for members of #YangGang and the #Forward party as well as any interested in spectating. Perhaps replies here can suggest candidates with 5 "signature hearts."
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We need a federal agency to protect our interests and set standards when it comes to our data.
We also need to #ownourdata and be the ones in control of it. Let's band together and make it happen. Join us today: https://t.co/KnrESnkqdk
We have the capacity to build a future we can be excited about, for ourselves and our families. United, we can move America #Forward and align the incentives of our people and our representatives.
Inspired by his experience running for office and as an entrepreneur, @AndrewYang provides a lively and bold blueprint for moving beyond the “era of institutional failure” in FORWARD, available now!
https://t.co/dRf69N6sdJ
Stoked to receive an advanced copy of @AndrewYang ‘s latest book. Comes out Oct 5. Check it out - his voice and his story are both important & inspiring.
#BasicIncome could virtually eliminate poverty in the UK at the cost of 3.4% of the GDP, says new research from Georgetown #Ubi#HumanityForward#endpoverty
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Now on https://t.co/COEsnkaeeO @AlecJRoss joins us to talk his new book “The Raging 2020s” about the frayed social contract of the US, how that’s happened - and what we can do about it. Alec has a great perspective as he’s been in schools, the State Dept and the tech sector.
The chances that an American born in 1990 will earn more than their parents are down to 50% and declining; in 1940 the same figure was 92%.
Worker productivity has skyrocketed since 1970s, yet worker pay has stayed more or less constant.
—@AndrewYang, Forward
"It is only by investing directly in our people that we will begin to dispel the confusion between human value and economic value..."—Andrew Yang
#FORWARD#SaysYang https://t.co/1pyCXM6XaU