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A basic income guarantee is a system that regularly provides each citizen with a sum of money. Except for citizenship, a basic income is entirely unconditional.

A basic income guarantee would radically simplify the welfare state, and truly ensure that no one has to live in poverty. Its necessity will become increasingly obvious as more human labor is replaced by machines.

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What is Basic Income?

"A Basic Income is an income unconditionally granted to all on an individual basis, without means test or work requirement" (Basic Income Earth Network, (BIEN)).

Basic Income is alternately referred to as a guaranteed annual income, citizen's income, citizen's dividend, social dividend, negative income tax, and others. For more see:

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Universal Income Cooperative Experiment

Hey Basic Income Community!

Its been 8 months since I posted about my Universal Income App, and I thought I would give an update. We have 14 members now, paying a dividend, "basic" income, of around $10 a week.

I'm looking to get to 100 members by the end of the year, and amongst those, find some people who are eager to develop the concept.

https://app.flourish.buzz/

Happy to answer any questions in the thread below, if you'd like to keep up to to date with the project, simply sign up, members get a "Distribution Preview" on a Wednesday.

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2025/01/30
02:05 UTC
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If Mark Carney Becomes Canada's Next PM, Might He Implement UBI Due to AI? | The Basic Income Show

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2025/01/29
13:17 UTC
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The Truth About Human Population Decline | Jennifer D. Sciubba | TED

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2025/01/29
12:41 UTC
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I think we all agree it's made clear we need UBI and other methods to balance out social inequalities, so what do you say about starting to get political and join forces? I am making my move.

We all share articles and technical discussions, we have been talking about UBI and welfare measures for many years. We foresaw the current developments of the world, we are further foreseeing the ones with AI and automation. I think we now have to act, nobody will act if we do not. I have started some years ago, trying to put up a New Economic Model that comprises UBI within it. I am trying to build a political organisation, Earth Government, with a purpose similar to UN, but way stronger, with some core fundamentals like mandatory equality measures among which there is UBI.. even if you don't want to be active on it or even join, try to build something else, or follow others in the field, actively supporting them. I fear we are being far too passive and inactive, while we could achtive so much, and this is especially important now more than ever. We have the means for equality and high welfare, but no classical politician will oush for them, so we have to take them for ourselves. Be active if you can, in the way you prefer.

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2025/01/28
14:33 UTC
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