UBI - Universal Basic Income

This is a holding post for links, rather than an attempt to comprehensively analyse the concept (the titles of my posts shown in this colour):  

• Basic Income Earth Network   https://basicincome.org/  
  

• "A UBI may (largely) pay for itself"   https://politicalmusingsofkayleen.blogspot.com/2021/04/ubi-may-pay-for-itself.html  

• “Early findings from the world’s largest UBI study”   https://www.givedirectly.org/2023-ubi-results/   The two year results included:   “a monthly universal basic income (UBI) empowered recipients and did not create idleness (that has to be a classic US/neoliberal way of thinking)   ...   both a large lump sum and a long-term UBI proved highly effective   ...   a short-term UBI was the least impactful of the designs but still effective   ...   governments should consider changing how they deliver cash aid.”    The summary includes insightful explanations, and the article includes a reasonable overview of what was done. My only criticism of this work is that it doesn’t include assessment of the value of long term low amounts - such as enabling children to pay for report cards (attending the school may be free, but to get a report card may be a cost that poorer people cannot afford, thus limiting future employment opportunities);  
  

• "Australians support universal health care, so why not a universal basic income?"   https://theconversation.com/australians-support-universal-health-care-so-why-not-a-universal-basic-income-91572   

• "Opinion: Universal basic income should be seen as a rightful share of society's wealth"   https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-05-14/universal-basic-income-wont-stop-people-working/9746544   

• "Universal basic income seems to improve employment and well-being"   https://www.newscientist.com/article/2242937-universal-basic-income-seems-to-improve-employment-and-well-being/#Echobox=1598028651   

• "Exploring the practicalities of a basic income pilot"   https://apo.org.au/node/217446   "Insights from around the globe: an international learning report from BIEN 2018 Congress"   

• From "Post No. 1,156 – Gnwmythr’s News Ed. No. 213"   https://gnwmythr.blogspot.com/2018/05/normal-0-false-false-false-en-au-x-none.html:   
• "Finland has backed away from its “Universal Basic Income” trial – or, perhaps more accurately, “flat-cheque 'permanent' (for the duration of the trial) support for (a sample of) the unemployed” – see also this slightly right wing opinion (which ignores burnout, worker abuse and neoliberal government abuse of those on welfare), although I agree in the value and dignity of work and not stigmatising those cast out by technology";

• "Rise of the machines: Is a universal basic income the answer for mass unemployment?"   https://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-07-04/universal-basic-income-money-for-nothing/8676834  
  

• "What if free money is the only answer to AI?"   https://joanwestenberg.medium.com/what-if-free-money-is-the-only-answer-to-ai-8cca7e6ab96a   "A 60-year History of the Universal Basic Income’s Overnight Necessity"  
  

• "Kenya's Basic Income Experiment"   https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3cswjxh   (audio)  
  

• “Henderson’s legacy: Revisiting universal basic income”   https://pursuit.unimelb.edu.au/articles/henderson-s-legacy-revisiting-universal-basic-income  

• “Nobody Wants to Work?”   https://youtu.be/9X3YSVrck8Y?si=IogHWHRPPr-klJL9   An utterly BRILLIANT rebuttal of the rubbish notion of people not wanting to work - and an excellent perspective on what is important or not, and work conditions/rights  

 

 

conflation

This is going to be a progresssively developed list of all those things that people conflate - which means: 

• https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Conflation&oldid=1146605147; 
• https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/conflate;
  

So ... here’s my list - and yes, it is a running rant: 

• Mistaking doing what one’s parents taught/favoured/wanted you to do well with ... having thought about a matter - especially anything to do with gender and other stereotypes; 
• One of the major flaws in this world is mistaking “awareness of convenience” for thinking;
  
• Similarly, doing social norms well does NOT mean one has thought about an issue; 
• Confusing feeling sexually attractive with physical comfort - especially clothes, the sexiest of which are often physically uncomfortable, but people are lacking in self awareness and personal honesty, or so afraid of not being attractive, that they will lie to themselves - and then others that they are ... “comfortable”; 
• Thinking - wrongly - that asexual means aromantic, which conflates sex and romance; 
• Neurotypicals (NTs, or allistics, if you prefer) can take things for granted, and thus miss what neurodivergents (NDs) see - making the NTs like fish denying the existence of water ... ;
  
• Smiling does NOT mean one is not being a bigot or otherwise nasty (look up narcissist, psychopath, etc); 
• Not choosing consciously to actively discriminate does NOT mean you are not a bigot (look up systemic discrimination); 
• Abuses of power such as silencing victims is one of the causes of conflating revenge and justice; 
  
• Mistaking gossip for harmless social bonding - it is an act of utter evil; 
• Reinforcing social/business hierarchy is not building cohesion.
  Promoting human rights is not divisive - it is the resistance that is divisive, not the rights nor their promotion; 
• Just because wintry days may look miserable to you does not necessarily mean they are cold (unless there is snow involved).
  Many people have a higher skin temperature under their clothes in winter than in summer because they are conflating their physical “comfort” (sense of warmth, in this case) with their emotional opinion of what they see;
  
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•    <more to come over time ... >  
  

I may, from time to time, add stories which illustrate this problem as well: 

I’ll begin this list of stories with someone I knew decades ago: a ciswoman who I can only describe as being in lust with a male actor was so out of touch with her feelings that she convinced herself it was because he was a better actor … much as some people are so out of touch with their feelings and sensations that, as mentioned above, they convince themselves that physically uncomfortable clothes that they feel sexy in are physically comfortable - which goes beyond cognitive dissonance to lying to oneself and the world no matter what the cost.

   <more to possibly be added>  

See also: 

• [CW] (aspects of) character   (collection of links for reference)

 

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systems justification

See 

[Content Warning - links to reports on violence/abuse/war]   systems justification;