• BilSabab@lemmy.world
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    11 hours ago

    except the national economies aren’t organized in a way to enable any form of UBI.

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      41 minutes ago

      national economies handle being welfare states just fine, which isn’t so different from what a UBI would be. Also developed service economies live and die by consumption. A UBI would stabilise and stimulate domestic consumer demand.

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      5 hours ago

      The Comingle app (beta) is seeking to start our own UBI without relying on the government to do it for us. Seems very promising

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          48 minutes ago

          It’s a nonprofot org which basically just does monthly UBI to your bank account when you sign up… They did the math and it turns out you only need a few thousand people of diverse economic backgrounds for it to be viable.

          From what I understand it’s like a phone banking app, but more secure, and it takes something like 10% of your earnings each month, then returns a lump sum to everyone of around $500 almost immediately. So people earning $40k/yr will net a couple hundred dollars per month. If you make nothing that month you will get closer to $1000 People who make $100k/yr will lose a couple hundred dollars. And the multimillionaires will lose a couple Gs a month (which sounds like a lot but it’s negligible to them).

          https://youtu.be/mo9FsrSXZww