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BREAKING: Mayors in Los Angeles, Oakland, Atlanta, Tacoma, Newark, Saint Paul, Jackson, Compton, and Shreveport announced today that they will all join @MichaelDTubbs in launching universal basic income pilot programs in their cities.

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Dear @mayorcantrell,

Please join this coalition of mayors. As someone who lives in New Orleans, I'd also be happy to lend my expertise to our own pilot program. I'm sure @KarlWiderquist would be happy to help as well. New Orleans should help lead the way in abolishing poverty.
Today started with 11 mayors as part of @mayorsforagi and it just became 12 with the addition of @RobertGarciaLB. Let's help get more mayors on board by tagging your mayor in reply and asking them to join the UBI pilot coalition. They can sign up here: mayorsforagi.org.
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THREAD: Hearing protestors chant in unison "#ICantBreathe," is something that hits viscerally. It's a call for the importance of our individual lives. We have the right to life, and we want to stay alive. George Floyd was dispossessed of the air he needed to exist. He was killed.
Withholding air is also not the only way of dispossessing someone of their rightful access to what they need to live. We all need air, but we also all need food. We can't breathe if we can't eat, and understanding that is understanding that poverty itself is injustice. It kills.
Poverty is misunderstood as a lack of resources, but poverty as it exists today is a legal status. It's a violent act of dispossession that creates poverty. Hundreds of years ago, there was no such thing as having nothing, because we had the planet as a shared natural resource.
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It's funny how I should be happy with the final results of Finland’s basic income experiment, but I'm angry. Basic income works. Over and over again, it works. Across so many dimensions important to human existence, IT WORKS. And yet, it's still a debate instead of a reality.
Just DO IT. Over 42 million people in the US just became unemployed, and yet Congress still hasn't embraced UBI. We were all ordered to stay indoors and yet we weren't all paid TO LIVE indoors. UBI has never been more important than right now. UBI will save lives AND our economy.
Stop trying to do everything else *but* UBI. Cut all the middlemen. Cut all the bureaucracy. Just get money into the hands of every single American, so they can spend it right back into our economy on food, rent, utilities, and yes even home entertainment.

UBI CREATES CUSTOMERS.
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The reason we support ideas says something about those ideas, and ourselves. People who support UBI, by and large, want UBI so they and others can do what's important to them. People who support FJG, by and large, don't want to do FJG work, but want other people doing that work.
That's something that I find inherently problematic about FJG supporters, that so many of them have no desire to ever do FJG work themselves. They simply believe that there is work that needs to be done that would be beneficial to them for someone to do, so someone should do it.
UBI recognizes all the work already being done, both unpaid and underpaid, and makes that work more possible by more people. It recognizes that we oftentimes are terrible at determining what's valuable and what isn't, and that we should instead quit stopping people from doing it.
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