theguardian.com/business/2025/…

A lot of BS being hurled around here when it comes to #UBI - handing #money is not the only way. Provide basic #housing #healthcare #transportation #education #food #water #energy for free and pay for it with #tax on #income #wealth #inheritance that is steeply #progressive

After that one can assess the need for actually handing out #cash

#democracy #humanrights #justice

Why universal basic income still can’t meet the challenges of an AI economy

Andrew Yang’s revived pitch suits the automation debate, but UBI can’t fix inequalities concentrated tech wealth drives

^{Eduardo Porter (The Guardian)}

Today someone I know slightly was sentenced to 30 months in prison, and sent to a high security facility. Their crime was disrupting traffic - they and others climbed a gantry on the M25, the major orbital round London, to drop banners protesting at government inaction on climate change.

If a young woman studying for a PhD had been treated like this for nonviolent protest in, say, Iran or China, how would it be reported by our press?

#Law is about #power not #justice

rooseveltinstitute.org/publica…

Yep - break down this concentration in EVERY sector of the #global #economy. No more #cartels, #oligopolies, #monopolies, etc. Just make real #competition the default.

End ALL #billionaires #plutocrats #oligarchs - this cancer must be excised ASAP for the survival of the rest.

#democracy #justice #humanrights #media #socialmedia #climatechange #adaptation #migration

The Political Economy of the US Media System: Excavating the Roots of the Present Crisis - Roosevelt Institute

Bilal Baydoun, Shahrzad Shams, and Victor Pickard trace the roots of the US media crisis to decades of deregulation and commercial capture, outlining how consolidation, news deserts, and platform dominance threaten democratic infrastructure and sow f…

^{Roosevelt Institute}

Epstein files released ...

#meme #usa #justice #epstein #epsteingate #epsteinfiles #problem

♲ Joyce Donahue - 2025-12-07 20:55:02 GMT