@cdarwin@c.imIf you know something about Basic Income, you may be aware that
👉one of the first proposals for a Basic Income came from Thomas Paine, hero of the American and French revolutions.
In 1797, after a stint in a French prison, Paine wrote the pamphlet
"Agrarian Justice",
⭐️which sets out an argument for taxing land and distributing the proceeds among the population at large as compensation for landlessness.
Paine’s proposal to tax land and distribute the …
@degrowthuk@mstdn.socialIn Defence of a Basic Land Income
The minimum living wage has reignited the debate on basic income. But would it be viable in the face of eco-social collapse? A basic land income could be an alternative suited to this scenario. By Manuel Casal Lodeiro, Coordinator of the Instituto Resiliencia. Originally published in Spanish, in Revista Ecologista No. 108, 01/06/2021 . Translated by Mark H Burton…
@markhburton@mstdn.socialThe minimum living wage has reignited the debate on basic income. But would it be viable in the face of eco-social collapse? A basic land income could be an alternative suited to this scenario. By Manuel Casal Lodeiro, Coordinator of the Instituto Resiliencia. Originally published in Spanish, in Revista Ecologista No. 108, 01/06/2021 . Translated by Mark H Burton…
@rachel@norfolk.socialI have an idea. If we used people to do work, rather than paying for AI agents, then we wouldn’t need to pay for them to not work. Also, we wouldn’t have goodness knows how much electricity used on it.
#ai #ukpolitics
@Techmeme@techhub.socialThe Marshall Islands unveils a national UBI scheme that offers payments of ~$200 per quarter to every resident citizen via stablecoin or traditional currency (Prianka Srinivasan/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025…
@servelan@newsie.socialAI Revolution: The Case for Universal Basic Income
https://thehill.com/opinion/finance/5713876-ai-displacement-and-ubi/
@servelan@newsie.socialAn Illinois County Has Made a Guaranteed Minimum Income Permanent - Business Insider
https://www.businessinsider.com/basic-income-cook-county-illinois-chicago-ubi-2025-11
@deabigt@universeodon.comMarshall Islands Launches World’s First Blockchain Universal Basic Income https://ground.news/article/5bc95536-5fe5-44e9-8ac8-5f2b1d49f627
@Techmeme@techhub.socialQ&A with Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman on defining superintelligence, its application in the medical field, universal basic income, regulation, and more (Mishal Husain/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2025-mustafa-suleyman-weekend-interview/
