sweetness and light

there was no poverty or homelessness in all the americas until the europeans arrived and brought feudalism and enclosure - require(ubi) | opinions

[sweetness and light @velara3]

How do you respond to suffering and other peoples problems?

[sweetness and light @velara3]

How you respond to someone else suffering i think is the core problem

one group responds with showing compassion empathy or understanding solidarity or support

another group dismisses, diminishes, gaslights, gatekeeps, ignores, blames etc

[sweetness and light @velara3]

no psychopaths
no conflicts of interest
ethics advisories on all laws
direct democracy on laws
no propaganda
no laws preventing survival
limits on land property
ubi
lottery on leadership
option to delegate voting rights
full self sufficient cities basic needs

[sweetness and light @velara3]

Basically the US leadership don’t care about the quality of life of the citizens. They are psychopaths.

This is different than other countries that grade their performance (eg, 800 million pulled out of poverty)

[sweetness and light @velara3]

two things that could change everything:

- conflict of interest department that removes psychopaths and officials with conflicts of interests
- give everyone a ubi and put rent control payment at 20% mortgage payment or tied to 30% of monthly min wage

[sweetness and light @velara3]

Don’t think this will ever reach land lords but they need to lower rents.

My studies and others have shown it’s caused massive gentrification and poverty and homelessness.

No not individual landlords but collectively.

Psychopathic landlords won’t change but for whoever’s left

[🅰ndrew @AKampB]

The pandemic showed us how vulnerable we are when healthcare and income to survive is tied to employment. Universal Basic Income and Universal Healthcare can provide a safety net for all, ensuring basic needs are a right, not a job benefit. #UBI #UniversalHealthcare #HumanRights

[sweetness and light @velara3]

“If the value of land increases in proportion to production (as is seen in Monopoly) all increases in production and increases in technology will be swallowed up by it.”

Meaning that there is a loophole (a flaw a leak) to merit, production, to hard work

#rent @AltTextUtil ocr

[sweetness and light @velara3]

@Author_Duke_J Where a someone believes that life is a game

[sweetness and light @velara3]

Speaking on the topic of world views: We all know the Just World world view but I haven’t seen one mention the Game worldview. I think, but won’t say, if psychopaths or the ultra wealthy or even the “haves” had a world view it might be this.
Thoughts?

[sweetness and light @velara3]

@xenobyte_ @kennypyatt @garybernhardt I’m glad it’s working for you. But it sounds like you’re saying you gave yourself an A on a test that you don’t understand the content of. that it works for you but doesn’t mean it is release candidate quality software. I think that’s the difference.

[Jim Mason @JimMasonAUO]

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[sweetness and light @velara3]

“Hey Sitting Bull”
“Yes, Owl Wing?”
“How many seasons have we had no poverty & no homelessness living at one with nature?”
“At least 1 million cycles?”
“Cool cool”
“Hey what’s that thing floating on the water towards us?”
“It looks like a large canoe”

[sweetness and light @velara3]

@Race2Extinct If you’ve ever visited some places on the California coasts you may feel sick. Go from the city parts to the nature parts and back. And then ask yourself how you feel.

[sweetness and light @velara3]

It feels like tipping has become a way to show care or solidarity to workers but it also feels like it shows lack of care from employers for not paying workers enough to survive. And it feels like business are exploiting it causing more gentrification.

Thoughts?

[Scott Santens @scottsantens]

It's on my list, but one of these days, I'll finally write a post about how "breathe" is the one word I've seen most frequently from basic income pilot participants when describing their experiences. I can't remember the first time I saw it, but I think it was the Finland pilot.

[sweetness and light @velara3]

@patriciaflsd Indeed

[sweetness and light @velara3]

New rule:

Anyone who complains that someone else gets an improvement to their life by social change gets the death penalty by being chucked into a volcano 🕺🌋

[Solidarity @1WhiteRabbitt]

Systemic Poverty is Oppression.

The greatest trick Capitalists ever pulled was convincing the people that poverty was natural and created by character defects, leaving the Poor to hate themselves, instead of their Oppressors.

The U.S. federal minimum wage is a starvation wage!

[sweetness and light @velara3]

@emphaticsocks Anyone can create money. And banks create and destroy currency every-single-day. What you can’t do is counterfeit the dollar. Cities can create new money but they can also reallocate spending. Or they can also declare disasters to release federal funds.

[sweetness and light @velara3]

If you’re a city that cares here’s what i’d suggest immediately:

- open the commons (have places for homeless to put up tents, houses)
- declare social security for all and up it to cost in your city
- ban rent on 2nd homes (rent is converted to equity see timeshares)

[sweetness and light @velara3]

“So long as their fair demands - the ownership & control of their livelihoods - are set at naught, we have neither men's rights nor women's rights.

The majority of mankind is ground down by industrial oppression in order that the small remnant may live in ease.” – Helen Keller

[sweetness and light @velara3]

“The few own the many because they possess the means of livelihood of all...

The country is governed for the richest, for the corporations, the bankers, the land speculators, and for the exploiters of labor.

The majority of mankind are working people...”