My friend's poster at yesterday's demo in S.F.
We should be demanding, organizing, and fighting for the abolition of billionaires, seizing their wealth, using it to provide free public services for everyone, a universal basic income, guaranteed housing, food, healthcare, not for a return to the shitty, pre-Trump status quo.
Just wanted you to remind you of some good news going into your weekend: ABQ city council approved a UBI pilot for struggling families. Hats off to Councillors Klarissa J. Peña and Nichole Rogers! #forward #ubi #abq #families
https://www.cabq.gov/office-of-equity-inclusion/news/a-pathway-to-economic-stability-for-families-funding-approved-for-guaranteed-income-initiative
Losing sight of the "big picture" while fixated on a detail: https://www.aurianneor.org/losing-sight-of-the-big-picture-while-fixated-on-a-detail/
#aurianneor #civil #contract #democracy #detail #DonaldTrump, #ElonMusk #fascist #frustrations #gain #generalinterest #human #law #migrants #neo-Nazis #poverty #publicservices #referendum #savings #selfishness #society #solidarity #standardofliving #Tesla #Trump #ultra-rich #work #worldorder #ubi
Join us for our monthly #UBI4ME get together and share your thoughts on #UBI and how it could improve your life, what we can do to bring it about and of course, who will pay for it 
When? 16:00 UTC (that is half hour after this message is written)
Where? Online on https://meet.jit.si/UBI4ME_Community_Event_April_2025
Where can I find out more:
https://ubi4me.org/events/
See you there 
#DomesticAbuse traps victims in cycles of fear—often because leaving means financial ruin.
#UniversalBasicIncome (#UBI) changes that, giving victims agency without bureaucratic hurdles.
No approvals, no means-testing—just freedom to leave NOW.
No more choosing between abuse and homelessness. UBI covers a bus ticket, a security deposit, food while rebuilding.
It won’t solve everything, but it’s a lifeline when every second counts. 
Thus, what is referred to as a "liberation
from work," namely the modern increase in leisure time, is
neither a liberation within work itself nor a liberation from
the world shaped by this kind of work.
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You ask for a four-day work week? A 6 or 4 or even 2 hour work-day? Fine. Capitalism could afford it. We could demand it. We've seen studies that indicate #UBI looks positive. With enough organization & hard work, we absolutely could make those dreams come true.
But it is too late now.
Especially in the digital age but even before this, we do enough "work" in our supposed leisure time that it keeps the machine going. Long did comrades with feminist frameworks cry out "wages for housework" in the recognition that so much work went unpaid. Yet in Debord's analysis--& I think I agree--it's too late. Even recognizing housework as labor & paying a wage, the material basis of philosophy behind such initiatives as UBI--even the *recognition* indicates that valuation has taken place. Whether we recognize it formally or not, our every waking & sleeping hour has been funneled into the market.
Yes. You dream of work. You dream of shopping. You dream of the computer. Their flashing light settled deep in your brain.
Whether it's recognized with a wage or not, our every legible activity feeds market activity.
We need #UBI to be enacted & implemented.
> giving everyone enough of that to always ensure survival would allow everyone's actual values to flourish
Who is doing the giving is the question.
Particular risks of UBI imho are e.g. lulling people to sleep while AI destroys the entire jobs market, takes firm hold.. and poof.. UBI disappears again.
Another hypothetical: Using #UBI paid by tariffs to hide destruction of gov social support and installment of a fascist regime.
Related: Microfinancing was also broadly abused.
in calmnessmoney = coordination in 1 dimension
software = coordination in hyperbolic space
hardware = depends on capitalism bc silicon fabs
so there's that tension of finding ways of organizing equitably atop a fundamentally alienated substrate.
#UBI for everyone no questions asked would solve a lot of the contradiction on a much more fundamental level. that's what everyone should be pushing for imo, anything else would be a half-measure that capitalists and bureaucrats will exploit
The #WealthGap isn’t just growing - it’s exploding. Wages stagnate while profits soar.
A few billionaires control more wealth than all the other people combined - and with that, billionaires control politics and who is in government!
#UBI doesn’t “punish success” - it ensures #everyone has a chance to succeed. Because no one should have to beg for basic survival in the richest era in history.
@zazzoo @AWolfInCheapClothing Ugh. So should we stop learning? What's the point? Maybe the tech bros should take a few ethics courses and think this through. #UBI
> Universal Basic Income was one of the democratically and officially endorsed demands of the British Women’s Liberation Movement. But unfortunately this fact has become steeped in collective amnesia. An amnesia that may have started at the very moment of the resolution’s passing.
https://www.historyworkshop.org.uk/feminism/the-forgotten-feminist-history-of-the-universal-basic-income/
#UBI #BritishWomensLiberatinMovement #ToruYamamori #UniversalBasicIncome #FeminismUBI
@ihuguet @osfa_2030 pero también he pensado una crítica desde la izquierda podría ser la que se hace, por ejemplo, entre los defensores de la Renta básica universal.
Además de ser un mecanismo redistributivo y de justicia social, la #RBU #UBI ayudaría a terminar con la burocracia de las ayudas, que parecen más centradas en poner obstáculos a quienes más lo necesitan que en resolver los problemas que dicen combatir.
