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Scott Santens

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Founder and President of @ITSAfoundation. I focus on unconditional/universal basic income (#UBI) and have a crowdfunded basic income (https://t.co/FjhtKCxYE0)

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It's stunning that the technical leader of the World Health Organization's COVID-19 response publically reaffirmed that COVID-19 is still a global health threat and still a pandemic, yet hardly any media outlet has covered this except for this one. themessenger.com/health/covid-p…

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Here's Nebraska's governor saying he doesn't want $18 million going to low-income kids so they can eat, because 'he doesn't believe in welfare.' Note that it would only cost Nebraska $300k.

apnews.com/article/nebras…

Here's the same guy getting $3 million in free money after…

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Rod Watson: If tax cuts help the wealthy, guaranteed income will do same for the poor
buffalonews.com/news/local/rod…

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Scott Santens UBI allows free-market capitalism to work the way it really ought to work, with all the economic decision-making as decentralized as possible.

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Hardly any other political idea can excite people as much as Basic Income. And why? You can tell us, the enthusiasts!

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2023 was a huge year for the 4-day week. 2024 will be even bigger.

“Q4 2023 saw a 400% increase in jobs offering a 4-day week, 4.5-day week, or 9-day fortnight, compared to Q4 2022.

“We feel confident in saying that we will only see these numbers continue to rise into 2024 to…

2023 was a huge year for the 4-day week. 2024 will be even bigger. “Q4 2023 saw a 400% increase in jobs offering a 4-day week, 4.5-day week, or 9-day fortnight, compared to Q4 2022. “We feel confident in saying that we will only see these numbers continue to rise into 2024 to…
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“Extraordinary profits” due to temporary events like the huge disruption to oil supply after Putin’s invasion of Ukraine are well understood in economics. Firms pricing power increases so they raise prices. In a shareholder (or human) economy that’s not surprising but it’s greed.

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So-called 'national debt' is right. It never should have been given that name. It is far more like a national savings account than a national credit card. It's a big number that most people don't understand, and because it's big, it scares people.

evonomics.com/isnt-time-stop…

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'As real incomes rise, the price system may run into trouble on the low end of the economic spectrum: How can someone send a price signal when they don’t have any money at all?'

Without universal basic income, inexpensive, high-quality basic consumption goods are underprovided,…

'As real incomes rise, the price system may run into trouble on the low end of the economic spectrum: How can someone send a price signal when they don’t have any money at all?' Without universal basic income, inexpensive, high-quality basic consumption goods are underprovided,…
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A Nobel Prize-winning labor market economist has cautioned against piling into studying science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) subjects, saying “empathetic” and creative skills may thrive in a world dominated by AI.

finance.yahoo.com/news/nobel-pri…

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We are purpose-seeking machines. To think will lead to people doing nothing but bare survival is ridiculous. No one wants to just survive. In fact a great deal of depression comes from feeling like 𝘢𝘭𝘭 we're doing is surviving.

UBI enables true 𝘁𝗵𝗿𝗶𝘃𝗶𝗻𝗴.

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The FACTS: Conservatives were behind the legal challenge that reached the Colorado Supreme Court, due process was provided during the trial, and finding Trump ineligible for the presidency does not require a conviction for insurrection.

mediamatters.org/january-6-insu…

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I often see memes like this. It's just not how UBI works. Read a research paper instead of a meme.

camecon.com/what/our-work/…

Helps to understand concepts like marginal propensity to consume and how $1 spent by the bottom 20% can have 3x the GDP growth impact as $1 by the top 20%.

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