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AI now costs more than human workers. So don't tell us we can't afford UBI. If AI creates public-scale wealth, people deserve a share through Public Wealth Fund dividends.

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UBI Works @ubiworks.bsky.social · 11h

The generation most in need of UBI "Not layoffs - replacement. If a computer can do it faster, it will"

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UBI Works @ubiworks.bsky.social · 12h

A greater number of people in 34 of 37 countries around the world believe AI will lead to less available paid work rather than more. The top 5 most concerned countries are South Korea (76%), Australia (76%), the US (71%), Greece (68%), Canada (61%), and the UK (61%).

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UBI Works @ubiworks.bsky.social · 14h

literally everyone craves meaningful work

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UBI Works @ubiworks.bsky.social · 16h

Taiwan is doing with AI what Alaska has done with oil

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Common Wealth Canada @commonwealthcanada.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Singapore is an economic miracle. Their visionary founding father understood that because land value is publicly created, it should be publicly shared. Tax land, instead of workers/businesses.

Lee Kuan Yew portrait beside quote criticizing private profit from publicly created land value.

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Common Wealth Canada @commonwealthcanada.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The property tax reform we need to build a healthier housing market. More and more cities and policymakers are beginning to understand this.

Common Wealth Canada graphic: Alan Cranston quote says higher land taxes and lower improvement taxes tested successfully.

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Common Wealth Canada @commonwealthcanada.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

In Canada, real estate (60-90% land value) is by far the #1 source of rising net worths. It's not even close. To restore the link between work and wealth, The Economist Editorial Board says build more housing and tax land value. We need leaders who will heed this call.

The Economist headline: “Inheriting is becoming nearly as important as working,” with a gold baby pacifier on red cloth.

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Common Wealth Canada @commonwealthcanada.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Our common wealth is being plundered at scale without compensation. This includes the value of land and natural resources. It's time we reclaimed it to pay us common dividends.

Common Wealth Canada graphic of Guy Standing with quote urging to take back the commons and compensate 'we, the people'.

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Common Wealth Canada @commonwealthcanada.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

BC has "the best land assessment authority in North America for Georgist reasons... that gets you top marks". — Prof. Francis K. Peddle Early BC mayors like L.D. Taylor supported taxing land over productivity. This should be mainstream politics again.

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Common Wealth Canada @commonwealthcanada.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Famed economist Mariana Mazzucato says we should pay citizen's dividends from co-created wealth, like nature and publicly-funded technologies. "How do we make sure that we're not just socializing risks but also socializing rewards?"

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Tom Pogson @basicbc.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Like Stockton led to Mayors for a Guaranteed Income. It just works. It works despite what they say. "They say a lot don't they?" Mia Marsellus "They certainly do, they certainly do..." Vincent Vega

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UBI Works @ubiworks.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Texas U.S. Senate nominee James Talarico is calling for an AI dividend: "we cannot allow all the gains of this innovation to accumulate at the top… you see this in Alaska, they have a statewide dividend for their oil and gas resources."

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UBI Works @ubiworks.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

In the Baby's First Years study, low-income moms got US$333/mo (18% more income) for their child's first 6 years. Their kids showed slower biological aging. Because the costs of accelerated aging build over a lifetime, even small early gains could mean big public health returns.

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Phil Sturgeon 🌳🚵⚓️ @philsturgeon.com · 07/10/2026

Artists and comedians don’t vanish in a UBI world, in fact you’d have more of them. Stealing that creative labour for profit would still be a crime.

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Krystal Kavita Jagoo, MSW (She/Her/Hers) 🇹🇹👊🏽✍️🏾♊️♊️♏️ @equitableforall.com · 07/10/2026

"The benefits of economic stability are invaluable, and guaranteed income is one of the few ways in which that can help to ensure equitable outcomes for marginalized folx who often lack the safety nets of generational wealth, largely from stolen Indigenous land and enslaved Black labour." 👀

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Robust Guaranteed Income Programs for All Would Also Be Suicide Prevention

The author continues her journey as a Disability Justice practitioner, desperately attempting to survive the costs of Access Intimacy Abuse at the hands of Makai Livingstone, the founder of Embodied S...

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David Graeber Institute @davidgraeberinst.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

One of the knock-on benefits of Universal Basic income, would be that people would not need to waste time on forms, and could use that time for projects, growing vegetables and many many more things.

"Being poor is actually a full-time job & being
broke is like a full-time job with the amount of
paperwork and the time going from office to
office proving what you have done.

With Universal Basic Income all that would
be eliminated with the time liberated to do
something socially productive."
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— David Graeber

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UBI Works @ubiworks.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

South Korea's rural UBI (called Love Gift Certificates 🫰) was so successful, they wanted to make it permanent and expand to 69 regions. The results speak for themselves: local businesses grew, declining regions saw population growth. The west should pay attention when UBI works.

South Korea considers expanding rural basic income after reports of population growth and stronger local businesses.

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UBI Works @ubiworks.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The Simpsons were so ahead of their time

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Gregory Lynn @needfulwords.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I think we should start painting everyone who is against UBI as soft on crime. Crime stems largely from desperation. Give people some real hope to improve their lives and crime will go down. Also the billionaires are driving people to desperation and causing the crime.

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UBI Works @ubiworks.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Even if some people work a little less, that's not such a bad thing is it

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Common Wealth Canada @commonwealthcanada.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Alberta's Fund could've been 15 times bigger & paid dividends to citizens. "As demonstrated in Alaska, by giving citizens ownership shares in the state resources, they recognize their vested interest and demand that the state maximizes returns from such resources." — Fraser

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Common Wealth Canada @commonwealthcanada.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Land value tax is an inclusive idea that can appeal to both those on the left and the right.

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Common Wealth Canada @commonwealthcanada.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

this is already how the wealthiest get most of their income not a stretch to think AI can make this reality for more people

Common Wealth Canada graphic: C.H. Douglas quote saying dividends will replace wages and salaries; portrait of man in coat

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Common Wealth Canada @commonwealthcanada.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Republican senator from Ohio wants to tax land rather than property. Property taxes discourage housing and encourage hoarding. Land value tax fixes this.

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Common Wealth Canada @commonwealthcanada.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Land value arises from collective efforts.

Common Wealth Canada graphic: Martin Adams quote says land value is created by community and should be shared; portrait of ma

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Common Wealth Canada @commonwealthcanada.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

🔰UBI + LVT = huge societal win

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UBI Works @ubiworks.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Microsoft AI CEO and UBI supporter: "Most of the tasks accountants, lawyers and other professionals currently undertake will be fully automated by AI within 12-18 months" Also him: "UBI is a political and economic measure we have to start talking about in a serious way"

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UBI Works @ubiworks.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

AI accelerationists support UBI

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UBI Works @ubiworks.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Work to thrive, not just survive.

David Suzuki portrait with quote stating research shows benefits of reduced work hours and universal basic income

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UBI Works @ubiworks.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

If business leaders know displacement is coming, then the conversation cannot stop at innovation. It has to include security too. Basic income is what responsibility looks like in an age of automation.

Chris Ford quote urging a basic income floor to support people amid job displacement, with portrait of speaker

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Basic Income BC @basicincomebc.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

From Lanark Basic Income Network on FB:

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Moon Blight 🫀 @cuntmoney.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

"The social and psychological benefits of work" are freely available to anyone without having an employer. UBI just gives people a choice about what to work on.

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Scott Santens @scottsantens.com · 03/10/2026

UBI is a floor. It's a dividend. It's not about replacing jobs. It's about making sure everyone has a non-zero floor to stand on and never fall beneath, and it makes sure that everyone benefits from productivity growth. And it is about enabling everyone to *choose* what they work on, paid or not.

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DB Maggi @dbmaggi.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The best argument I've ever heard for universal basic income (UBI). "The reason we don't call that work is because it doesn't make rich people money." 🎤Craig Fay

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Tom Pogson @basicbc.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The work that makes money relies on the vast amount of work that doesn't. Basic income recognizes both, supporting the work such as that of care, creative work, research and study, and acting in the commons.

An Iceberg showing what's visible is jobs and the huge amount Invisible is unpaid work.

#BasicIncomeNow

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Basic Income BC @basicincomebc.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Sweeps aren't free. Meanwhile the New Leaf project: "According to study data, the project saved the shelter system approximately $8,100 per person for a total of roughly $405,000 over one year for all."

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UBI Works @ubiworks.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

"If basic income for the arts pays for itself... expand it to all."

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UBI Works @ubiworks.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

automate the BS jobs and pay UBI

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UBI Works @ubiworks.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Dignity for people. Stability for families. Stronger demand for the economy. Gail Vaz-Oxlade gets it.

Gail Vaz-Oxlade quote supporting basic income for dignity and economic benefit, with portrait pointing at viewer

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UBI Works @ubiworks.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

"No job means no dignity" usually comes from people with great jobs. For everyone getting yelled at, underpaid, and pushed to the limit, dignity looks like being able to say no.

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UBI Works @ubiworks.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Two Canadian Senators and Professors: use AI to fund Basic Income - tax machines, fund people, build an AI Dividend Fund - tax labour less - bundle with AI education & services This is mainstream policy now backed by real examples and smart people

Article titled "How AI Can Help Boost Wealth and Share It More Fairly" by Dr. Zhao, Dr. Whitehead, Sen. Woo, and Sen. Pate.

UBI Works graphic with 4 authors. Quote: AI should provide an economic floor rather than concentrating wealth for a few.

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UBI Works @ubiworks.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Actually, this IS inevitable in a technologically advancing society. Our economy naturally concentrates wealth in LAND and COMPANIES, away from WORKERS. The key is to give everyone a slice: UBI funded by sovereign wealth funds, land/natural resources, and AI.

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UBI Works @ubiworks.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Why are we taxing workers so much when the robots are here? "There are dark factories with no light switches because they're all robotics… Tax the robots. Stop taxing the human worker. Make it so employers like me can hire and more of that money goes to the people"

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UBI Works @ubiworks.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

One of Canada's top doctors prescribes a basic income guarantee

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