cross-posted from: https://piefed.social/post/92667

  • A Seattle basic income pilot gave low-income residents $500 a month, nearly doubling employment rates.

  • Some participants reported getting new housing, while others saw their employment incomes rise.

  • Basic income pilots nationwide have seen noteworthy success, despite conservative opposition.

  • jol
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    But that’s what I don’t understand. You can’t have a slave class if they’re all dead. Isn’t a slave class more useful, more productive, if they’re alive, reproducing, and consuming?

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      No one is dying right away. While the masses are ground into mortality, they can get a few shifts out of em.

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      You just need a high enough turnover whether through forced birth legislation, making it difficult or impossible to get birth control or sex education, or increasing immigration