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"A few of you already know me, but for those who don’t, I’m just a guy who
happened to get really into the concept of unconditional basic income ten years
ago. I get asked all the time how that happened, so long story short, I was on
Reddit, read through the many comments in a discussion thread about how quickly
technology was advancing and no one was talking about it, found out about UBI,
dove into everything I could find about it, and like in some cartoon, a light
bulb appeared above my head and there was no going back after that.
What was the light bulb? It was this: there is no single policy more important
to the future of humankind than UBI. When asked to describe UBI in one word, I
say “civilizational.” It’s that big. People love to say UBI is no silver
bullet; that it’s not a panacea. No, it’s not. But in a world where most of the
population is perpetually being choked so they can’t breathe deeply, a “no more
non-consensual choking policy” is a pretty big deal. It’s not that UBI will
solve everything, but what it does do is make everything more solvable. In a
world full of locked doors, it’s a skeleton key. If we want to move the world,
we need a really long lever, a lot of effort, and a fulcrum. UBI is that
fulcrum."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
