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Karl Widerquist @karlwiderquist.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

"New Church" single by the The Popes - Official is out today (1 October 2026)

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New Church

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Michael A. Lewis @michaelalewis10.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The question of how UBI would be integrated into the current social policy landscape doesn’t come up that often. Economist Soomi Lee addresses it here: usbig.net/simplicity-a... @gisele600.bsky.social @scottsantens.com @karlwiderquist.bsky.social @murfmensch.bsky.social @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social

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Simplicity and Complexity of Basic Income – USBIG

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Karl Widerquist @karlwiderquist.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I don't know what a frequentist is, but let me fix my grammar: It's a made-up stat anyway. It can't be based on the kind of info that would allow the calculation of a percentage chance.

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Karl Widerquist @karlwiderquist.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

It's a made-up stat anyone. It cannot based on the kind of info that would allow the calculation of a percentage chance.

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Karl Widerquist @karlwiderquist.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

The legendary Celtic Punk band, "The Popes," featuring Paul Maddog McGuinness have a new release out: "Storming Heaven."

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Karl Widerquist @karlwiderquist.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

New Lawless Park video for the song, "All Who Come in Peace Are Welcome Here" with pictures taken protests that have been happening in New Orleans in 2025 and 2026 @michaelalewis10.bsky.social

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All Who Come in Peace Are Welcome Here

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Karl Widerquist @karlwiderquist.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Sounds like a question for a lawyer

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Karl Widerquist @karlwiderquist.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Congrats. Let's talk about this in Toronto

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Karl Widerquist @karlwiderquist.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Most of those could work. But not the one with acronym inside the name. Something with rebate in it would also make sense.

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Karl Widerquist @karlwiderquist.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

I don't know of a name for returning half of taxes back to people. But it's a good concept. And we should try to come up with a good name for it.

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Karl Widerquist @karlwiderquist.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

My new band, Nat Shays Whisky, has a new protest song out, "The Home of the Fat Homeless." It's almost up to 10,000 plays on Spotify alone. (extra kodus if you can figure out the origin of the name of the band) open.spotify.com/artist/1TsoR...

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Nat Shays Whisky

Artist · 179 monthly listeners.

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Karl Widerquist @karlwiderquist.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

...than they'd've had with zero taxes 40 years ago.

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Karl Widerquist @karlwiderquist.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

A reduced work incentive is not always so terrible. We had very high growth in the 40s, 50s & 60s, when we had high income tax rates. Also, as Herbert Simon argued, if productivity is twice as high as it was 40 years ago, we can tax people at 49% and still leave them with a greater work incentive...

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Karl Widerquist @karlwiderquist.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Benefits that decrease with income reduce the work incentive, but they don't create a perverse incentive unless benefits fall more than income rises, which happens when you lose all your benefits when your income rises above a certain amount. UBI & GBI are usually designed to eliminate that problem.

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Karl Widerquist @karlwiderquist.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

You can effectively do the same thing with UBI if you tax income (rather than taking the grant back) as income rises. So, all GBIs have an equivalent UBI, but not all UBIs have an equivalent GBI. But not everyone uses the terms the same way.

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Karl Widerquist @karlwiderquist.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Usually, a GBI is gradually reduced as income rises. Fo example, you get the full grant only if you make $0. If you make $1, your grant is reduced by $0.50, or $0.33, or $0.25, depending on the benefit-reduction rate.

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Karl Widerquist @karlwiderquist.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Neither term is well-used enough in English to have a precise, stable definition, but you definition is close enough to how these terms tend to be used. However, your example isn't the kind of GBI people usually propose. ...

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Karl Widerquist @karlwiderquist.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Sounds like both you and the author of the article know what Conrad (@theubiguy.bsky.social) is doing.

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Karl Widerquist @karlwiderquist.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

This article is free to read or download UNTIL September 11, 2026. So don't delay, act now Michael W. Howard, “Basic income, reciprocity, and the power to exit,” World Development Perspectives, Volume 43, September 2026 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Basic income, reciprocity, and the power to exit

This paper will address the following questions: 1) what kind of basic income would enable exit from paid employment? 2) Is such a basic income sustai…

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Karl Widerquist @karlwiderquist.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

How a ‘terrible’ website helped basic income go global. By Tyler Prochazka, BasicIncome .org, July 14, 2026

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How a ‘terrible’ website helped basic income go global | BIEN — Basic Income Earth Network

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Karl Widerquist @karlwiderquist.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

“Donald Trump couldn’t make it tonight. He got caught in sex traffic.” -Whitney Cummings, at the Mark Twain Award ceremony, June 28, 2026

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Karl Widerquist @karlwiderquist.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

That's what UBI is, so it might sound redundant to present it as a reason for UBI.

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Karl Widerquist @karlwiderquist.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

How ‘lonely fighters’ built basic income’s first home. By Tyler Prochazka, BasicIncome.org, July 9, 2026

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How ‘lonely fighters’ built basic income’s first home | BIEN — Basic Income Earth Network

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Use your words @useyourwords2.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

If you study poverty read Progress and Poverty and if it gets difficult skip through it Then after read Agrarian Justice Then Basic Income books by @karlwiderquist.bsky.social and articles by @scottsantens.com and Guy Standing and you’ll start to get a picture of what’s broken and the fix 1/2

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Karl Widerquist @karlwiderquist.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

We didn't win the war where the guy said napalm smells like victory. The fact that we had already lost when the movie came out was kind of the point.

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Karl Widerquist @karlwiderquist.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

I guess Alzheimer's hits different people in differently.

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Karl Widerquist @karlwiderquist.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

We might want to come up with a list of our favorite children's shows.

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Karl Widerquist @karlwiderquist.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

That's not how Alzheimer's works: you'll lose your short-term memory so you'll be unable to follow the plot of any story. Your impression of all your favorite books will be a confusing mass of hard-to-follow nonsense.

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Karl Widerquist @karlwiderquist.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

I love it when a reporter quotes me ripping on Trump: "I can't think of a favorable comparison between Trump & Hamilton...Hamilton was an intellectual who co-wrote the Federalist Papers [&] thought about how to design good institutions...Trump is a bully who's trying to get money out of people"