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Universal basic income is mooted in the US.
There's a magic money tree in the UK.
Emergency funds will (apparently) be available to anyone who gets into trouble.
So all those things we were told for the past 40 years were totally impossible suddenly turn out to be possible.
In the emergency response to the coronavirus, could we see the roots of a better society?
So it's up to us:
Use this dreadful crisis to support each other, demand better from our governments and create the world in which we want to live.
Or watch society, humiliatingly, collapse over toilet paper.
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Advice please.
I'm looking for the best examples of citizens' initiatives on the Covid19 crisis, pre-empting government action, from around the world.
In other words, people working together to contain the pandemic and support each other through it.
Thank you in advance.
Some great examples coming in. Many thanks both to the respondents and to the amazing people they spotlight.
So many beautiful examples. It's moving and inspiring to see how people have stepped up. I intend to write about it next week. Thank you.
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Johnson is announcing the right policy. I just wish he had done it 8 weeks ago, when the writing was already on the wall.
It was spelt out here: what the disease was, what it was likely to do, and what needed be done to counter it. 24th January 2020. thelancet.com/journals/lance…
But the UK wasted precious weeks, dithering, then experimenting with its potentially catastrophic herd immunity thesis. There were plenty of warnings, from eminent epidemiologists and others. So could the Johnson toadies bleating "oh yeah the benefit of hindsight" kindly bog off?
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Yet another example of the way in which the Institute of Economic Affairs - which wields extraordinary influence in both government and the media - dismisses hazards and endangers public health.
Last year, the IEA made this boast. It might help to explain why the UK's response to Covid-19 has been so slow and inadequate. To the IEA and other opaquely-funded lobby groups, government intervention is the enemy. But we badly need intervention. politicalemails.org/messages/8455
In this column, I seek to explain why the governemts of the UK, US and Australia have responded so poorly to the pandemic. theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
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Universal Basic Income is their mid-long term plan. Things are moving so fast now though. You'll need to take the chip at some point though. Then it will be conditional if you score well as a citizen on social credit.

See samisdat.info/blog/the-cashl…
They don't want you fighting or dead because as @nakedempire2 pointed out, they need you to be good usury paying slaves, which is what UBI will ensure happens, trickle-up effect.
They just need to slow down reproduction rates... through contraception, sexual deviancy etc to bring the population down gradually in line with their Georgia Guidestones target of 500 mln. Not that we can be sure they won't deliberately accelerate the process with catalysts.
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Universal Basic Income advocates want to give everyone $1k a month.

- your boss will use this as an excuse to cut your salary.
- your landlord will use this as an excuse to raise your rent.
- your congressmen will use this as an excuse to slash benefits and lower minimum wage.
It isn't a coincidence that billionaires love this plan. Workers will still have to work for them in order to live, and pay their landlords for shelter. Property values will go up. Business costs will go down. Workers will not be empowered.
The plan will cost three trillion, almost the entire federal budget, including social security and medicare. Every benefit that aids the poor will have to go, or your taxes will have to double. The poorest people who need the most help will end up worse off.
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