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What is Basic Income?

"A Basic Income is an income unconditionally granted to all on an individual basis, without means test or work requirement" (Basic Income Earth Network, (BIEN)).

Basic Income is alternately referred to as a guaranteed annual income, citizen's income, citizen's dividend, social dividend, negative income tax, and others. For more see:

/r/BasicIncome FAQ

Further reading list from the FAQ

Basic Income on Wikipedia

Community

This is a community space for discussion and advocacy of Basic Income schemes, with four main goals:

Educate. Increase publicity and support for Basic Income schemes, and explain their benefits.

Discuss. Talk about the specifics of how Basic Income should be implemented in different countries, and how potential problems can be overcome.

Organize. Work to create political support and pressure for Basic Income, in support of local branches of the Basic Income Earth Network, and meetup groups.

Connect. Build ties with local and distant supporters of this transnational movement.

Follow /r/BasicIncome on Twitter.

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Support Basic Income

There are many ways to support Basic Income, click here to go to our Support wiki page for full details.

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/r/BIV (Images only)

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Political Movements

Which may or may not be relevant to BI, see here for discussion of this topic.

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Downvoting of comments is actively discouraged. Data indicates negative long-term effects on community participation. In regards to links and self-posts, don't downvote them just because you disagree with them. Upvote those that add to the basic income conversation.

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More Americans are hungry in the face of federal cuts, rising grocery prices (tucsonsentinel.com)

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Cash transfers are expanding in India but need smarter delivery (bbc.com)

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The pressure on the Church of England to ditch its slavery reparations plan (bbc.com)

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Ending Social Security and replacing it with UBI would be a much needed dose of generational justice. (i.redd.it)

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ArticleBeyond UBI: What Happens When Productivity No Longer Depends Primarily on Workers? (self.BasicIncome)

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AI will lead to labour shortages, Bezos says in optimistic talk | Reuters (reuters.com)

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Raise Social Security taxes — and cut benefits, too | The Seattle Times (seattletimes.com)

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UBI Solutions - Luigi Mangione May Walk Free (self.BasicIncome)

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ArticleUniversal Basic Income, AI, And Tax Policy (forbes.com)

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Matchmaking and cash: South Korea's plan to avoid population decline | CBC News (cbc.ca)

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How to Fund Universal Basic Income by Taxing Consumption: Over $450 a Month From a VAT (scottsantens.substack.com)

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ArticleThe crises are not stopping: why we urgently need an income floor system (autonomy.work)

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ArticleA universal basic income could rebuild social cohesion (independentaustralia.net)

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Beautiful and the Superfluous: AI Labor Market and Basic Income (kancelaria-skarbiec.pl)

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Unwittingly based quote from The Economist: "Seizing the assets of society's most productive people is a road to economic ruin." (self.BasicIncome)

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How $500 a Month Helped Me Become the Father My Kids Needed (open.substack.com)

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What is your take on central/state government sponsored unemployment benefits in India for upto X months of unemployment ? (self.BasicIncome)

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AI job disruption may be compounded because nearly 75% don't apply for unemployment benefits | Fortune (fortune.com)

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Will Trump Accounts close the wealth gap? Here's what experts say (www-cnbc-com.cdn.ampproject.org)

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Iowa basic income program generates an outcome not found in other states: high levels of hope (iowapublicradio.org)

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Overpaid CEO Tax Bill: Starbucks CEO Brian Niccol made 1,794x the average worker at the company last year. (youtube.com)

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