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[VincentSantiago @VincentS_Den]

A future with basic income. For policy & decision makers in Canada and anywhere in the world. Subtitle in French, Spanish, Chinese Traditional, Chinese Simplified to follow on this thread. #basicincome #Canada #TommyDouglas #cdnpoli #cdnpolitics Youtube link to be added at the end later so you can translate to any language you want through their subtitle AI translate setting.

[VincentSantiago @VincentS_Den]

Modi’s dark knife 🔪

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

🚨THIS IS INSAAANNEEE: Iranian warship was invited to India’s MILAN 2026 naval exercises. Its sailors marched in a parade. They stood beside American sailors.

Then the US withdrew from the exercise.

Then they torpedoed the ship on its way home.

Then they left the sailors to drown.

Sri Lanka recovered the bodies.

This is not warfare. There is a word for luring a guest into your home and killing them on the way out.

We have video of the IRIS Dena contingent marching in Vishakhapatnam on February 19th. We have the US withdrawal on record. We have 80+ sailors dead and a Sri Lankan navy doing the recovery work America refused to do.

And the American media response has been indifference.

Girls’ schools bombed. Carpet-bombing Tehran floated like a policy option. A Marine’s hand broken for saying no in public.

When cruelty becomes strategy and atrocity becomes routine — the people who stay silent become part of it.

Say their names.

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

🚨THIS IS INSAAANNEEE: Iranian warship was invited to India’s MILAN 2026 naval exercises. Its sailors marched in a parade. They stood beside American sailors.

Then the US withdrew from the exercise.

Then they torpedoed the ship on its way home.

Then they left the sailors to drown.

Sri Lanka recovered the bodies.

This is not warfare. There is a word for luring a guest into your home and killing them on the way out.

We have video of the IRIS Dena contingent marching in Vishakhapatnam on February 19th. We have the US withdrawal on record. We have 80+ sailors dead and a Sri Lankan navy doing the recovery work America refused to do.

And the American media response has been indifference.

Girls’ schools bombed. Carpet-bombing Tehran floated like a policy option. A Marine’s hand broken for saying no in public.

When cruelty becomes strategy and atrocity becomes routine — the people who stay silent become part of it.

Say their names.

[VincentSantiago @VincentS_Den]

P.S. it also makes us resilient whether calamity (& building back up from major disaster, national or personal sickness or family issues), trade war and threat against our sovereignty. It gives us the tools & resources to fight back, grassroot up not trickle down. less bureaucrac

[VincentSantiago @VincentS_Den]

A challenge to @theJagmeetSingh. Create a policy that will make Canadian resilience against the looking threat, and be visionary like Tommy Douglas. U.S. elections showed that status quo is not enough ti turn the tide for the voice of discontent. Basic income will do that. 1/2

[VincentSantiago @VincentS_Den]

A future with basic income. For policy & decision makers in Canada and anywhere in the world. Subtitle in French, Spanish, Chinese Traditional, Chinese Simplified to follow on this thread. #basicincome #Canada #TommyDouglas #cdnpoli #cdnpolitics Youtube link to be added at the end later so you can translate to any language you want through their subtitle AI translate setting.

[VincentSantiago @VincentS_Den]

it will boost local productions and innovation from farming to local manufacturing and new productive and automated manufacturing capacities. Thus boosting revenue and GDP, while driving down inflation & making canada self sufficient. P.S. ….

[VincentSantiago @VincentS_Den]

@zhao_dashuai for point 1 a basic income would boost economic activity and innovation. It is in essence a venture funds for the people.

[VincentSantiago @VincentS_Den]

一个拥有基本收入的未来。为全球的政策制定者和决策者而设。简体中文字幕#基本收入 #基本收入 #人民福祉 #经济 #简体中文

[UBI Works 🇨🇦 @ubi_works]

"We could cut the poverty rate in half with no increases in taxes, no new taxes, no cuts to important social programs"

🗨 Leading health economist Dr. Evelyn Forget

[VincentSantiago @VincentS_Den]

@ubi_works @cafreeland When was this from?

[UBI Works 🇨🇦 @ubi_works]

Leading health economist Dr. Evelyn Forget says cost estimates for a basic income is well within range of programs we can afford.

[Scott Santens @scottsantens]

New @ITSAfoundation Newsletter! It includes some of the latest news in the basic income world, like the PEI report in Canada, Boston's consideration of going bigger than a typical pilot, Denver's funding of @denverbip's 2nd year, and more. Read and sub!

https://t.co/epflyEZpAw

[UBI Works 🇨🇦 @ubi_works]

Released this morning, A Proposal for a GBI Benefit in PEI represents one of the most concrete and cleareyed steps towards Basic Income in years; and an exemplar for all other provinces and territories to emulate.

[Global News Toronto @globalnewsto]

A recent report out of PEI says if the province adopted a guaranteed basic income model, poverty rates could plummet. @RubinaAhmedHaq joins @AntonyRobart to discuss how this model would work and its effectiveness in this week’s edition of #YourMoney.

[PEIslander @PEI_lander]

Why (tf) do we have to keep proving that a basic income guarantee works?

[VincentSantiago @VincentS_Den]

@tao_lin We have to create a condition that promotes participation and cooperation. Basic income is a foundation that could lay the floor for that.

[VincentSantiago @VincentS_Den]

Good article on solidarity effect of basic income on society.
“If you don't make money, you may starve to death, and the anxiety and fear of being unable to survive are the main culprits that force people to become selfish. Basic income will lift people out of selfishness by significantly reducing or eliminating survival anxiety. Basic income breaks down one of the two pillars that have supported selfishness above all else (independent survival anxiety and respect anxiety).”
#basicincome
#기본소득

[Scott Santens @scottsantens]

Interesting new findings from the huge 12-year universal basic income experiment in Kenya:

"Given how entrepreneurially minded the recipients are, the researchers found no evidence that any of the payments discouraged work or increased purchases of alcohol... In fact, so many people who used to work for wages instead started businesses that there was less competition for wage work, and overall wages in villages rose as a result."

Tons of entrepreneurship happening as well as higher wages for wage workers!

There are three groups being compared here. One group got a UBI for 2 years, one group got the same amount of money as the monthly 2-year group all at once, and one group is getting the same amount each month as the first group but for 12 years.

Basically, the lump sum group saw mostly better outcomes than the 2-year monthly group. They started even more businesses, but they were a bit more stressed and not as happy. And the 12-year monthly UBI group is the happiest.

"The long-term monthly recipients are happiest of all, and some of that is because they know it’s going to be there for 12 years ... It provides mental health benefits in a stability sense."

The 12-year group is also seeing the best of both worlds, because those who want lump sums are choosing to make that option happen collectively.

"Long-term monthly payments seem to offer the best of all worlds because they enable people to use ROSCAs to generate lump sum payments when they want them. That enables flexibility: People who want monthly payments can get them, and people who need cash upfront can organize with their peers to get that."

https://t.co/q7nqBAlmPz

[VincentSantiago @VincentS_Den]

Forging a Future with Basic Income. Now uploaded to Youtube. You can select any languages using their subtitle tool. Settings (gear icon) – Subtitles/CC – Auto-Translate. Then select your language.

Link to full video:
https://t.co/sGTqBCp5Nh

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[VincentSantiago @VincentS_Den]

A future with basic income. For policy & decision makers in Canada and anywhere in the world. Subtitle in French, Spanish, Chinese Traditional, Chinese Simplified to follow on this thread. #basicincome #Canada #TommyDouglas #cdnpoli #cdnpolitics Youtube link to be added at the end later so you can translate to any language you want through their subtitle AI translate setting.

[VincentSantiago @VincentS_Den]

一个拥有基本收入的未来。为全球的政策制定者和决策者而设。简体中文字幕#基本收入 #基本收入 #人民福祉 #经济 #简体中文

[Laura Babcock 🇨🇦 @LauraBabcock]

Growing up in Montreal in 1980s I thought of Ontario as good. Boring but good. How did we get to a place where people are begging at intersections, flooding food banks, sleeping in street while Ford flagrantly enriches his friends? #OntarioPlace #Ontario #onpoli #HamOnt #TO

[VincentSantiago @VincentS_Den]

@corster6487032 @BonnieCrombie @fordnation Basic income allows people to do what they want including going back for education without worrying about not having enough to live while they do so.

[VincentSantiago @VincentS_Den]

A future with basic income. For policy & decision makers in Canada and anywhere in the world. Subtitle in French, Spanish, Chinese Traditional, Chinese Simplified to follow on this thread. #basicincome #Canada #TommyDouglas #cdnpoli #cdnpolitics Youtube link to be added at the end later so you can translate to any language you want through their subtitle AI translate setting.