#universal income

[satinelabelle]

I saw a TikTok asking how people are affording to live rn, honestly I think we aren't. We are surviving. Choosing which bills to pay, what treats are worth it, sharing, pocketing, just doing our best. CEOs/ government peeps are out of touch and I can't wait to enjoy their pancreas fresh out of the air fryer 🥰

#eat the rich #no but really #i am gonna feast on the flesh of ceos #i dream about putting my teeth in em #its a shame i have lil bunny teeth instead of lil sharp flesh rippers #no cyber monday #fuck ceos #universal health coverage #universal income #maybe a fucking black Friday sale on rent and groceries you fucking bastards

[whitetyger123]

Policy makers will just be like "Yeah we could start a Universal Income, but if people aren't threatened with starving they won't work minimum wage jobs 😟"

Like, they realize that is the point, right? Those jobs, which everyone agrees are terrible to work, will have to make themselves better. How is that a bad thing? I'm not just talking about the wage, but the actual environment of working there. Not understaffing, not getting workers to work through their breaks when there is a rush, actually treating their employees like people. These are all good things!

#universal income #rant

[paridoxpower]

Realizing my dad and I are the same in the way that we both want to create things just to create and let people enjoy them without monetary gain and yet people look at us funny when we say that 🥺🥺🥺 just imagine if we didn’t have to work/have money for a living

#my dad just wants to make board games guys #but making board games is expensive #and he tries so hard #like 🥺🥺🥺 #and I just wanna make ceramics #but that’s an expensive thing too #ugh #personal #idk why I thought about this #parents #dreams #society #universal income #fathers #dads #creativity #art #board games

[liberalsarecool]

UBI works. 88% success rate.

#universal basic income #homelessness #ubi

[aurianneor]

Retirement pensions

Why should we pay pensions higher than average incomes to people who have earned their money by polluting without any solidarity with the rest of the people or with future generations (oil, nuclear, pharmaceutical industries, banks, etc.)?

If they earned more than the average salary when they were working, they were able to invest their money and benefit from it when they retired.

Why not opt for an unconditional / universal basic income with good health insurance that all citizens would receive, whatever their age? Then everyone would have their own strategy for increasing their income. In a rich country, there’s no reason why people shouldn’t be able to feed themselves, treat themselves and eat with dignity (organic permaculture)? Most of the poorest people are under 30. On the other hand, people who live in extreme poverty are over 60.

Why should elderly people be more deserving than people who devote themselves to their loved ones, to art, to social links, or than unemployed people who refuse to do unworthy work? What about the over-55s who no-one wants to work with and who are not yet old enough to retire? 73% of people receiving the minimum old-age pension are women. Prices are doubling every ten years, so pensioners no longer have enough to live on. As women live longer, they find themselves in poverty. We should abolish pensions, family allowances, the minimum income allowance (RSA), unemployment benefits, student grants and all the civil servants who manage them and who cost society so much, and introduce an unconditional universal basic income.

La retraite, miroir grossissant des inégalités entre les hommes et les femmes – CFDT: https://www.cfdt-retraités.fr/Retraites-inegalites-femmes-hommes

The richest 5% earn more than the other 50%. They are the ones who should pay, they are the ones who are not taxed.

We have to stop always taxing the same people, i.e. workers and companies. We need to tax those who own and inherit the country’s wealth.

En France, l’inégalité face au patrimoine se maintient, 10% des ménages possèdent 54% des richesses – La Tribune: https://www.latribune.fr/economie/france/en-france-l-inegalite-face-au-patrimoine-se-maintient-10-des-menages-possedent-54-des-richesses-991749.html

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Les retraites: https://www.aurianneor.org/les-retraites/

Basic Income is possible: https://www.aurianneor.org/basic-income-is-possible-the-instrument-of/

The pill umbrella: https://www.aurianneor.org/the-pill-umbrella-drug-research-went-from-the/

Absences from work: https://www.aurianneor.org/absences-from-work/

Living with dignity: https://www.aurianneor.org/living-with-dignity/

Housing: https://www.aurianneor.org/housing/

Cut out the middleman: https://www.aurianneor.org/cut-out-the-middleman/

Restricting personal wealth: https://www.aurianneor.org/restricting-personal-wealth/

Price ceilings and price floors: https://www.aurianneor.org/price-ceilings-and-price-floors/

Freedom and coexistence: https://www.aurianneor.org/freedom-and-coexistence/

Illegitimate authorities: https://www.aurianneor.org/illegitimate-authorities/

Ecoterrorism: https://www.aurianneor.org/ecoterrorism/

Fair trade and organic farming: https://www.aurianneor.org/fair-trade-and-organic-farming/

4-day workweek: https://www.aurianneor.org/4-day-workweek-2/

Since I stopped working And started thinking again It works in my favor!: https://www.aurianneor.org/since-i-stopped-working-and-started-thinking-again/

Rob the poor to feed the rich: https://www.aurianneor.org/rob-the-poor-to-feed-the-rich/

Popular Initiative: https://www.aurianneor.org/popular-initiative-petition-to-the-un-in/

Oui au Référendum d’initiative populaire: https://www.aurianneor.org/oui-au-referendum-dinitiative-populaire-petition/

#aurianneor #average income #banks #basic income #companies #contribution #health insurance #heirs #merit #no nonsense #nuclear #oil #owners #pensions #pharmaceutical #pollution #poverty #rich #solidarity #ultrarich #unconditional income #unemployed #universal income #workers

[animentality]

#twitter #middle class #housing market #universal basic income

[my-sandwich-it-was-innocent]

It just dawned on me that the same people who are against Universal Income because people won't use it properly to live but for things they consider a waste.

Are the same people who advocate for Social Security and how it's wildly abused to fuel gambling addictions in casinos

#Universal income #communism #socialism

[nerdby]

Guys, this article contains a list of the places in the US that have been experimenting with universal income payments. They've been giving citizens EXTRA MONEY for doing NOTHING. There are no tests to pass. No required qualifications.

If your community is not on this list then you need to get out there and start voting.

Not voting is letting the fascists win.

#politics #political #universal income #make money from home #money #finances #my fellow americans #i never want to say that again #you need to vote #register to vote #get on that

[politijohn]

Source

Let’s go

#Europe #current events #news #universal basic income #ubi #government #the left #progressive #working class

[somnimagus]

My page for @kairizine. It was such a huge honor to be part of this wonderful book with everyone, I had so much fun!

[id in alt!]

#kingdom hearts #kh #kh kairi #kh xion #kh namine #i don't really feel proud of my own stuff usually but #i really think this is the drawing i'm most proud of from this past year!! it made me think 'oh maybe i can draw' haha #i'm still kinda bad with colors but something clicked with this one. and i feel like i got the sentimental feeling i wanted! #ooh but this project's about flower symbolism so ramble incoming: #protea symbolizes resilience transformation and diversity; hollyhock means 'please remember me.' #so my general theme was finding a sense of self. #these 3 have struggled with finding their own identity; they tend to get left behind both in-universe and in general plotwise #and naminé and xion both resemble kairi and were overshadowed by her memory. but i feel like all 3 have transformed into their own people #xion and naminé have their faces covered partially by hollyhock to show their wish to be remembered for who they are- #instead of the parts that they share with someone else #and the protea bouquets show how they each held on and resiliently grew into their own person despite it all #i put a little swervy path on the hill behind kairi to give that hopeful sense of growth and moving forward. it's a little hard to see #hopefully that makes sense! i really love symbolism but i think in visuals so i'm really bad with words #but gosh working with everyone on this project was so fun. it was like impossible not to get swept up by the team's hype for this zine #i need to hunt down everybody's work and rb it #ohh and everybody's flowers are so crisply drawn it's insane!! i think if i lined all these flowers and leaves i'd die haha #fan art #my art #project stuff

[probablyasocialecologist]

The core defining feature of capitalism is that it is fundamentally undemocratic. Yes, many of us live in electoral political systems, where we select political leaders from time to time. But when it comes to the system of production, where we spend most of our waking lives, there is little or no democracy. Under capitalism, production is controlled primarily by capital: large corporations, major financial firms, and the 1 percent of wealthy individuals who own the majority of investable assets. They decide what we produce, and how our massive productive capacities—our labor and our planet’s resources—should be used. And for capital, the primary purpose of production is not to meet human needs or to achieve obvious social and ecological goals, but to maximize and accumulate profits. That is the overriding objective.

Jason Hickel, The Limits of Basic Income

#capitalism #jason hickel #universal basic income

[quotesfromall]

If the reserve army is small, workers are in a better position to demand higher wages. But the resulting fall in profits and capital accumulation leads to workers being thrown out of work and a consequent growth of the reserve army, and a fall or slower rise in wage levels. In the different phases of this cycle, capital continually composes and recomposes the working class through its own dynamic movement: it generates a certain level of unemployment as a necessary feature of that movement

Stuart Hall, The Politics of Mugging

#welfare queen #unemployment #ubi #universal income #stuart hall #hall #the politics of mugging #hustle #hustle culture #the politics of 'mugging' #job search #underemployment #welfare #proletariat

[queerism1969]

#minimum wage #minimum salary #universal basic income #disabilties #disability #disabled #subminimum wage #democratic socialism #socialism #leftist #anarchy #anti capitalism #communism #marxism #capitalism #eat the rich #fuck capitalism #late stage capitalism #economics

[liberalsarecool]

Let's have the conversation about UBI.

Let the actual data and facts end the bad faith arguments.

#ubi #universal basic income

[jackdaw-and-hattrick]

Story Idea:

22 year old Gotham University student Danny finds a Damien clone whose near death and saves his life, offering to let the kid stay with him in his crappy apartment. The clone accepts, thinking Danny seems like a tolerable chump to bide his time with as he builds his strength for another fight with his progenitor for his rightful place as heir to Batman. Danny absolutely 100% knows the kid’s a clone and that taps right into his childhood trauma, making him want to protect him all the more. (Up to you if Dani is alive but in my version she’s not). Over time, Clone!Damien becomes begrudgingly fond of his new caretaker, especially after Danny starts taking him on Doctor Who style adventures through time/space and the tamer parts of the GZ (there are none) as part of his efforts to build up the kid’s confidence (outside his overcompensating ego) and help him learn to grow into his own person.

Bonus!

Danny and Clone!Damien are the downstairs neighbors to none other than Jason Peters (aka Jason Todd). They both clock him as Red Hood pretty quickly, but it takes much longer for them to connect him to the Waynes, so he’s kinda just their marginally more normal neighbor who happens to be a crime lord and who, for some reason, tends to check up on them a lot. (Originally this was because RH thought Danny might be an upcoming villain, then because he didn’t understand how Danny was alive, and then Clone!Damien moved in and he started checking to make sure that he didn’t murder Danny in his sleep). Luckily, Jason is a fantastic cook, so they are both grateful (to varying degrees) for his nosiness. (Is this a Dead on Main situation, are they just good friends? Who’s to say? You. Or me. But probably you.)

#danny phantom #dp x dc #damien wayne #jason todd #dc x dp #dead on main #dani phantom #potentially #Damien’s clone who has yet to pick a name #throughout this Danny dresses suspiciously like a supervillain #he’s got the wild hair goggles a sleeveless lab coat big ol’ boots too big for his feet #he makes a modest income off a handful of patents and is attending the university under scholarship #(it’s the Wayne secret anti villain scholarship that they use to monitor possible enemies/allies and help them before they go dark) #Jason has no idea how Danny managed to buy the apartment below his considering that he owns the whole thing and wasn’t looking for renters #he just appeared one day with moving boxes and all the proper paperwork #apparently he exploited some old as balls property laws to get his hands on the place #which is honestly sad #Jason has much better apartment buildings he could have gone for #the plants are a nice touch though #really liven up the place #almost cover up that lingering stench of death

[tygenco]

Help?

The update on things is that the housemate is financially flat-lined. If 'thoughts and prayers' were actual currency then I'd be covered for a decade's worth of rent by this point.

For those who don't know: the housemate has become mobility disabled due to a life-altering injury, and then there's the other medical conditions that took the opportunity to go "hiiii, we're heeeere!" They're in a care facility at this point--they've been there since the beginning of December 2023.

I cannot cover the rent on my own, in its entirety, because I do not pull in enough income to do so. I've depleted my tiny buffer and have no other resources. Family is unable to help any more than they already do. Being Autistic, and trying to handle all my Things while dealing with this on my own is making it very difficult to maintain what little 'cool-headedness' I've had in my day to day. I am drowning under the pressure and therapy and meds can only get me so far.

Please, please help.

#it's sad 'cause it's true #adulting is exhausting #want to curl up in a ball and scream or cry or just stare because omg the pressure is bonkers #rent control should be a thing EVERYWHERE #universal basic income would be a huge help right now... #Autistic #Actually Autistic #rent help #fundraising #disability #disability visability #rent