Denver Basic Income Project for the unhoused sees the number of participants who own or rent a home increase from 5% of participants to 40% in 6 months. - eviltoast

There are multiple groups, the group referred to in the title received a lump sum of $6500 the first month, then $500 every month after that.

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    1 year ago

    This is so cool! I can’t wait for the US government to see this data and implement the program nation wide!!! :(

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      1 year ago

      Business reviewed this proposal and it didn’t give the right amount of dread to keep employees panicking about keeping their jobs. Everyone knows that employees afraid of losing their jobs are less likely to form unions more productive!

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      1 year ago

      Some of the laboratories of democracy are pretty progressive, some more than the countries thought of as “progressive” in some ways even. But those ideas are never implemented nationally.

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      1 year ago

      As opposed to what? Leaving people homeless so those greedy banks and landlords can’t get at their money? Yeah, that’ll show ‘em.

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      1 year ago

      This is such a deranged fucking comment

      Yeah, let people be homeless, it’s better than paying for them to live somewhere, they can all get fucked

      Like seriously, who thinks like this

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        1 year ago

        the majority of usa populace. most folks in America believe in a just world where those who are good are rich and should be rewarded and those who are bad are poor and should be punished.

        hence why when a billionaire breaks the laws nobody cares, but when a poor person steals food they should be locked up.

        they also believe in zero-sum thinking, where if anyone gets anything it came at the expense of someone else. they have no concept of how economics and life actually works. just consumed by jealousy and bitterness and assuming if others didn’t ‘take’ from them they would have more.

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          There is also the concept of the American Dream being sold to the people, with everyone being convinced they can “make it” if they just try hard enough and after they do they want to reap the rewards the rich are awarded. John Oliver summed the line of thinking up almost a decade ago: “yes, I can clearly see this game is rigged, which is gonna make it so sweet when I win this thing!” [1](https://youtu.be/LfgSEwjAeno)


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      1 year ago

      Giving desperate people money for food and housing is clearly a plot to benefit BIG CAPITALISM!