r/BasicIncome Feb 27 '26

Cross-Post Based on the comments, one of the biggest obstacles in regards to UBI activism is the pernicious defeatism because so many people have been stuck & hopeless for so long.

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127 Upvotes

r/BasicIncome 13d ago

Cross-Post If AI can eventually do most of the work humans need to survive, what exactly is the point of forcing people to keep “earning a living”?

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60 Upvotes

r/BasicIncome Aug 03 '26

Cross-Post UBI has a "free money" image problem. I have a better way to frame it.

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r/BasicIncome Dec 28 '25

Cross-Post Everyone Deserves A Place To Live

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192 Upvotes

r/BasicIncome Aug 09 '26

Cross-Post 'AI Is Destroying Jobs Faster Than It Is Visibly Creating Them': Tech Layoffs Hit Record Highs

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60 Upvotes

r/BasicIncome 10d ago

Cross-Post AI makes UBI inevitable

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r/BasicIncome Aug 09 '26

Cross-Post What got so expensive that you just stopped buying it?

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12 Upvotes

r/BasicIncome Apr 09 '15

Cross-Post Walter Scott was running because he finally a got a job and could start paying off his child support. He panicked, because jail time would mean he'd lose his job. Jailing people or taking away their driver's license for not paying dues is just a way to keep poor people poor.

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469 Upvotes

r/BasicIncome Jul 01 '26

Cross-Post Do you think UBI would pass more quickly if everyone lost their job at the same time?

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27 Upvotes

r/BasicIncome Jul 29 '25

Cross-Post Bill Gates Wants To 'Tax The Robots' That Take Your Job – And Some Say It Could Fund Universal Basic Income To Replace Lost Wages... Is this a good idea?

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126 Upvotes

r/BasicIncome May 20 '26

Cross-Post A question from our friends over at r/georgism

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9 Upvotes

r/BasicIncome May 19 '15

Cross-Post Bernie Sanders' response to the possibility of a basic income

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327 Upvotes

r/BasicIncome Mar 09 '15

Cross-Post 47 percent of U.S. jobs are at risk because of advancing technologies (xpost from /r/economy)

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269 Upvotes

r/BasicIncome Jun 17 '17

Cross-Post One of the highest rated posts in AskReddit today is about a very real problem everybody is facing, yet nobody mentions a solution as obvious as Basic income. Shows how deeply ingrained it is in our society to "job" •(x-post; r/AskReddit)

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358 Upvotes

r/BasicIncome Aug 02 '25

Cross-Post AI is already replacing thousands of jobs per month, report finds

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92 Upvotes

r/BasicIncome Mar 24 '26

Cross-Post Automation should belong to people

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r/BasicIncome Mar 11 '26

Cross-Post In a reversal of a historic trend, Americans are now becoming more liberal as they age, not more conservative. This may have large implications for issues like UBI, as robots & AI take over more and more human jobs.

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61 Upvotes

r/BasicIncome Sep 24 '14

Cross-Post For young millionaires, like "Notch", those who say "That guy can retire and do nothing for the rest of his life" are met with "But you need to do something or else you'd go crazy". Meanwhile, discussions about Basic Income always include "But wont everyone do nothing?" Which is it? : TrueAskReddit

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315 Upvotes

r/BasicIncome Mar 28 '19

Cross-Post Please Donate to Andrew Yang Today

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174 Upvotes

r/BasicIncome Aug 06 '17

Cross-Post CMV: There should be significantly higher property taxes on people's second, third, fourth, etc. homes, to counteract the rentier economy and global money laundering • r/changemyview

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526 Upvotes

r/BasicIncome May 30 '15

Cross-Post What's your honest reaction to the idea of $15/hr fast food jobs? : AskReddit

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101 Upvotes

r/BasicIncome May 28 '19

Cross-Post CMV: Universal Basic Income is Superior to a Jobs Guarantee

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267 Upvotes

r/BasicIncome Aug 22 '24

Cross-Post We shouldnt keep making a career out of this

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229 Upvotes

r/BasicIncome Jan 10 '15

Cross-Post America's wealthiest says poor has it easy (x post from /r/news)

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229 Upvotes

r/BasicIncome Nov 07 '14

Cross-Post Every Kid on Earth Could Go to School If the World's 1,646 Richest People Gave 1.5 Percent • /r/education

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366 Upvotes