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Mar 11
BREAKING: Andrew Yang says we should stop taxing workers, and tax AI instead. That can fund UBI.
"We should try to stop taxing labor."
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Jun 13
"For 50 years, the Alaska Permanent Fund has doled out oil revenue-derived dividends to the state's residents in a form of universal basic income. If... data is the new oil then why not create a data-resourced public investment fund?"
Great idea -- build an AI Dividend Fund.
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Jun 13
"Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump have little in common. But on one narrow subject, at least, they seem to agree: the government should take direct equity stakes in the big American AI research labs currently rushing towards giant public market flotations."
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Rising land prices are the biggest contributor to growing net worths, not incomes from work or other investments.
To reduce inequality and build a stronger economy, tax land.
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Jun 12
These billionaires are straight up just fucking lying about no job losses just to make people not hate AI π
Jun 11
JUST IN: Jeff Bezos predicts AI will create a labor shortage rather than put humans out of work.
MEANWHILE:
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This Ontario minister championed land value capture (LVC) to fund transit.
When land values rise because of public investments, the public should get some of that back to fund more transit. We could be doing this everywhere.
ALT Ontario minister Kinga Surma says land value capture helps fund major transit projects used worldwide.
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Jun 11
Canadian TV icon Ed the Sock supports UBI
ALT Ed the Sock says people still want to work with UBI and that basic income is good for the economy.
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Jun 11
"The pattern is clear: bigger minimum wage boosts meant bigger pay gains for restaurant workers. In neither case does the group with the largest raises show any indication of a more negative employment effect β in fact those groupsβ employment estimates are slightly positive, though not statistically distinguishable from zero."
We've been running an unprecedented natural experiment running for a decade and half. 30 states have raised their minimum wages. 20 have not.
What happened to pay? What happened to jobs? The good news is that it's pretty easy to figure out now.
Link next post.
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Jun 11
JUST IN: Jeff Bezos predicts AI will create a labor shortage rather than put humans out of work.
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Jun 10
More people now support UBI than oppose it across all demographics except for Whites, 65 , college , and Trump voters. 64% of Harris voters and 57% of nonvoters support UBI. Heads up to you nonvoters, you're going to need to start voting if you want UBI.
Jun 10
Even a "universal basic income" policy is above water now β which is pretty different from how this polled a few years ago.
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Jun 11
The United Church of Canada is calling for Guaranteed Livable Income.
Canadians of faith should be unified on this.
βThe prophets, Jesus, and the early church called for a community where no one was in need. We can do the same.β
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Jun 11
Support their campaign for a to Create a Guaranteed Livable Income Program in Canada.
Take 1 minute to sign their petition to the Senate Finance Committee:
united-church.ca/social-actiβ¦
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Albuquerqueβs guaranteed income programme is attracting national attention for an innovative funding source: cannabis tax revenue. This report shows the city has used revenue from legal cannabis sales to fund a no-strings-attached guaranteed income pilot zurl.co/Hj6cL
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Jun 10
She asked it as a rhetorical question, because she knows the answer is yes.
ALT Amanda Lang discusses whether expanding the middle class and reducing poverty can grow the overall economy.
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Jun 10
Two robots are busy folding towels in the hotel.
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Jun 9
South Korea's UBI pilot shows major success 1 year.
Local businesses grew by 2,000 and rural population went up 4.7%. Most of the money was spent, causing "an increase in new businesses in essential services such as restaurants, cafes, supermarkets, and hair and beauty salons."
ALT Article reporting rural basic income increased local businesses including restaurants, cafΓ©s, supermarkets and salons.
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Jun 9
AI will only create jobs until AI takes your job. Will any politician lose their job to AI??
Jun 9
AI that builds Canada strong for all: that is our mission.
ALT Screenshot of an article from Reuters. The headline reads: Canada says Ai strategy will help create 250,000 jobs, boost GDP by 3%.
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Iβm entering the race for Ontario Liberal Leader because I believe Ontario can still win!
But not if we keep ignoring our big problems. (1/3) π
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Jun 9
Bernie Sanders wants Americans to own a share of the AI economy.
His proposal: an AI Sovereign Wealth Fund that takes stakes in major AI companies and pays dividends to citizens.
"When a public resource generates wealth, the public should share in that wealth."
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Jun 9
Canada is home to some of the most important AI pioneering work. We should be building towards AI dividends for Canadians.
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