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I’ve always admired @AndrewYang but didn’t back his $1,000/mo Freedom Dividend

I’ve changed my mind

I am not only off the fence, I believe we need it urgently

We need transaction (government)-free stimulus, not the inefficient pork of the past

#StimulateThePeople
#killthevirus manifesto 1.0

- Convert factories for ventilators/masks/ etc.
- Emergency right-to-try expansion
- FEMA/Nat Guard for beds, med. staffing
- Freedom Dividend
- Cheap, mass, repeat, universal testing + data transparency for tracing, tracking and return to normalcy
Supporters of the FreeDiv in Congress might consider adding a requirement that requires reauthorization of the legislation after one year

Doing so is imminently reasonable for such legislation and may win over fence-sitters like me
The Board of Directors of my nonprofit research & policy organization, @envprogress had an emergency conference call this morning

The board unanimously decided to make pandemic policy research & advocacy a new program area for at least one year, subject to renewal
Environmental Progress will approach stopping the pandemic with the same vision, values & approach we bring to energy, environment, housing, & homelessness:

- Evidence-based

- Radical open-mindedness

- Anti-dogmatic

- Willingness to publish/speak uncomfortable truths
We wanted to make our commitment public to advertise our openness to working with and partnering with other policy researchers and advocates

My DMs are open

Please send important info and ideas on this & other pandemics my way going forward.

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We need 1B facemasks to protect health care workers but only have ~10% of that

#KillTheVirus

#KillTheVirus Manifesto 2.0

Financial Times endorses Freedom Dividend

@AndrewYang "Why should casinos get pulled from the fire while small businesses die?

"Lobbyists shouldn’t be rewarded at a moment like this"

"The government should pay $1,000 to every household in America... stimulus with immediate impact.

Strong @FranklinFoer

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Mike Shellenberger
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If you believe we are over-reacting to coronavirus, how many deaths would need to occur for you to change your mind?
Please use *GLOBAL* deaths

Thank you!
I am loving all of your replies to this survey!

I am now inspired to write something on the ethics of cost-benefit analysis and coronavirus

Your responses are of greater value to me than the survey results themselves which are, as everybody knows (yes?) *unscientific*

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Mike Shellenberger
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Preventing millions of deaths may require 4+ waves of weeks-long social distancing for 12-18 months

Achieving well-coordinated action will require greater public trust in government

Radical transparency is the key

My latest @Quillette — please share!

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The New York Times has published a COVID-19 mortality calculator, which allows readers to adjust infection rates from one to 70%, and a mortality rate from 0.1 to 3%, to estimate various forecasts of total US deaths, from 3,300 to seven million.

nytimes.com/interactive/20…
The actions we take in terms of coronavirus suppression and COVID-19 treatment will determine how many people die, and how massive of an impact our actions have on society and the economy.
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Mike Shellenberger
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Finally (somewhat) good news

- Trump okays Def. Prod. Act to make ventilators, masks, etc

- Italy town halts trans. w/ tests

- Italy death rate, infections slowing

- 99% Italians who died had pre-existing conditions

- Govts to spend trillions on stimulus

- Denial declining
“Through testing & retesting all 3,300 inhabitants, regardless of whether they were exhibiting symptoms, & rigorous quarantining of their contacts once infection was confirmed, health authorities were able to completely stop the spread of the illness”

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And, some bad news...

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James Treakle 🧢
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Okay, #YangGang. I think we need to begin a messaging pivot to bring the full moral authority of our movement to bear.

What @AndrewYang and his new organization decide for their UBI argument is up to them, but this is our movement too, and I believe we need to adjust.

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Automation isn’t the reason we need universal basic income. Never has been. Instead, automation *reveals* the reason we need UBI: coupling survival to labor alone is inhumane. If our value is based on our labor, and labor demand decreases, *so does our value*.
.@AndrewYang agrees with this argument, of course. But ironically, part of what put him on the map — the automation story — is also what held him back from a full break into the mainstream. It made UBI seem futuristic, as if it was a kind of Silicon Valley technology of its own.
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Pat Oshaw
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Why Andrew Yang is not for America. His first plan, most comprehensive plan, is UBI(1,000 a month). The biggest issue with this is it doesn’t stack with things like Snap, Tanf, SSI, and many more programs people rely on.
If you go to Andrew Yang's site, he claims it stacks with Social Security Disability... the thing is, not everyone who is disabled has worked enough to collect Social Security, so they get SSI instead. You cannot collect SSI AND UBI at the same time. You must choose one.
Yang's site makes the claim that "Even some people who receive more than $1,000 a month in SSI would choose to take the Freedom Dividend because it has no preconditions."
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Karam Bales
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@CCHQPress @Conservatives @jeremycorbyn Can you count how many schools are going to be let down by Johnson's promises on education?
@CCHQPress @Conservatives @jeremycorbyn Shall we see who?
@CCHQPress @Conservatives @jeremycorbyn And why?
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Zach Good
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I worked as a consultant for the Department of Public Welfare for more than three years.

I’ve done the #MATH, and @andrewyang’s #FreedomDividend is vastly superior to many public assistance benefits.

I explain in this thread.

cc @scottsantens, @Zach_Graumann
@AndrewYang @scottsantens @Zach_Graumann 1/ One of the criticisms of Yang’s Freedom Dividend is that the $1,000/month doesn’t stack (i.e. add to) *some* public assistance benefits. For example, someone receiving $150/month SNAP benefits won’t receive $1,150/month; they must choose SNAP or the Freedom Dividend.
@AndrewYang @scottsantens @Zach_Graumann 2/ Yang’s campaign has explained which benefits will stack with the Freedom Dividend and which benefits will not. Make sure to research this.

For simplicity purposes, in this thread I’m referring to a scenario wherein someone receives SNAP only (again: SNAP doesn’t stack).
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Matt Walters
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This video is too good. @AnaKasparian

#YangMediaBlackout extends to progressives who refuse to compare ideas by the merits as well.

I've yet to have someone explain why a FJG + Guaranteed Housing + Inc Min Wage is better than straight cash w/ UBI.

@AnaKasparian While a housing guarantee sounds nice, I think the real problem is deeper. The problem with Bernie's policies is that they are based on the notion that a person making minimum wage should be able to afford a quality life equivalent to what they could have had in decades past #UBI
How many of the franchise retail stores you went into lately did *not* have automated checkouts? I'll bet the last pharmacy you went into did. In the 1970's a multinational telecommunications company would employ somewhere upward up 25,000 employees #UBI
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Scott Santens
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THREAD: It's amazing how @RashidaTlaib's plan which would give every adult earning less than $50k a $250/mo boost is rightfully seen as very progressive by progressives but those same progressives can cry neoliberal at @AndrewYang's plan that would boost the same people the same?
Example: If someone on SNAP + SSI is getting $750/mo right now, and they choose the $1k/mo Freedom Dividend instead, their incomes get boosted by $250/mo. They also gain full control over the foods they buy. Rashida's LIFT+ would be the same boost, but maintain SNAP's control.
So why is it more progressive to boost incomes of those on welfare, but in a way that maintains control and maintains high marginal tax rates on earned income? Is that what progressive means to you? Is progressivism defined as paternalistic control and punishment of employment?
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