Building a Better Future: The Universal Basic Income Solution
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- Опубліковано 30 лип 2024
- Conrad Shaw and Scott Santens, founders of the Income To Support All Foundation (ITSA), share their journey in supporting various UBI initiatives, highlighting personal stories and the challenges faced, particularly during the COVID-19 pandemic. Does the U.S. economy generate enough wealth per capita to eradicate poverty through UBI? What happened to the Child Tax Credit, which had cut childhood poverty in half? Understanding UBI's benefits comes from experiencing it firsthand, contrasting it with welfare programs, and anticipating the massive economic shifts that Artificial Intelligence will affect in both white and blue collar jobs. Explore Conrad and Scott's experiences in creating the Bootstraps documentary series, which chronicles families receiving UBI and showcases its positive impacts over several years. Lastly, learn about Comingle, a mutual aid platform where community members support each other financially based on weekly income fluctuations.
00:00 - Intro
00:40 - The Comingle App
09:29 - Experiencing Basic Income
13:08 - Like & Subscribe
13:25 - Making of A UBI Doc Series
20:46 - Industry and Poverty
25:28 - Bootstraps Doc Update
29:53 - The ITSA Foundation
35:39 - The Child Tax Credit
40:49 - Getting UBI Ready
44:01 - An Arts and Creativity Economy
47:47 - Unlocking Our Financial Potential
51:22 - How to Get Involved
Income To Support All (ITSA) Foundation: itsafoundation.org/
Bootstraps documentary: bootstrapstv.com/
Comingle: www.comingle.us/
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Thanks again for inviting Conrad and I to have this discussion with you, Andrew!
Thank you as well to those who watch this and read this reply and who share this video with others!
Focus on the tiny lights to lead us out of this dark time. Thank you all so much. Really Helps knowing good people ( with resources) are doing good things to help. This is what Keeps us going when the mud gets to thick & heavy to keep on. Yang sometimes best therapy
Andrew Yang - its very very hard to teach financial planning to someone who has no money.
You need social workers, a Federal jobs guarantee to help people learn financial planning while paying people to teach it at the same time. This is how China alleviated poverty for hundreds of millions of people.
Great having you on as always!
@@henrygustav7948A type.of Federal Jobs Guarantee is the military! There's also the Job Corps. Federal Jobs Guarantee has data.
Improve the military and improve job cops. That's your Federal Jobs Guarantee.
What has not been tried is Universal Basic Income!
VA has a type of Basic Income with VA's Veterans Benefits Administration (VBA). Veterans with disabilities get income per month but it's not Universal nor Unconditional.
We need to get away with telling people what to do to get things. We need to be in the business of ensuring people have the means to care for themselves and their families!!!
@@k.c.killjoy3488Here here!
My neighbors and two churches raised basically a basic income for a neighbor who is blind with MS and was losing his housing in 2021. We raised about $11,000 and found a recently retired neighbor who could use some extra income. We paid $500 directly to the landlord, and the would be homeless man paid $500 from his SSDI. The only thing for housing in CA is vouchers. He was in the wait-list for the voucher was 3 1/2 years. But we successfully carried our friend through that wait-list period. He just moved into an apartment with his voucher. It's been really interesting to see the inside of the system. He is blind, with neuropathy and is also on the autism spectrum. It took four smart ladies to navigate the system on his behalf. I like this idea of small community driven projects. Because it's really easy to get bitter and entitled and complain about the government. Anyway, thanks. I wish I could vote for you again.
I'm so glad to hear you voted for Andrew as well. It was one of my first elections to vote in and I can honestly say he's the only candidate I've ever voted for that I've even give a damn about.
That's pretty awesome.
But you also bring a great point up... about "wait list" & navigating a complicated system... whats annoying is I STRONGLY believe it's "Complicated by design"...
Kinda like the BLS & how they report lower inflation numbers, than what actually exist..
Can’t believe this channel only has 130k subs.
Because the majority report is better then Yang. In fact watch their dunk videos on him, they are good, especially Michael brooks
Loved seeing Bootstraps at the BIG Conference in Chicago last year! Let's all make UBI happen!!!
But it’s not UBI if everyone has to pay for it. That’s something else. UBI HAS to be government
What a treat to be on the show, Andrew, thank you!
The Big 3 of UBI right here.
To run for politics it should be mandated that you declare quantifiable goals and your eligibility to run for reelection should be tied to whether you achieve that goal or not.
I’m going to point out, again, that for a channel to have well over 100k subs and regularly post videos that reach less than 1% of that audience is highly unusual…
Not really considering the reason why are so many subscribers is because of the yang gang and that is no longer very powerful because Andrew has sense lost his beacon of hope with universal income
good to see you guys coming together again. waiting for another movement to take shape.
Great program, Andrew! You guys are brilliant! Thank you for being you! 👏❤🙏
This is what I'm talking about.
Awesome thank you so much for having this conversation.
I strongly believe that people will not be able to manage impacts of climate change because they are already broke and the numbers are going to rise very quickly year after year. We need to have a nationwide UBI so people can prepare for those emergencies. We are already enduring issues with our homes in flood plains and sea level rising on our coasts. Let alone the worries of major events like tornadoes, fires, hurricanes and droughts uprooting people that have no savings or money for a place to stay if they are forced to leave or if their home becomes damaged or destroyed.
We already know private insurance companies will get bailed out, but you know the money won't help the people down and out. We also know that FEMA isn't any better at providing aid quickly or efficiently, and especially now when many of our government agencies seem to be failing us horribly when it comes to protecting us and our well being. What are people gonna do?
I know there are so many in worse positions than myself, but city life is expensive by myself. It wouldn't be this much, but even $200 a month would help me relieve a week of costs for my monthly expenses on top of my work income. I could really use that.
As a side, $52,000 take home for the year(no tax) would be perfectly fine for me.
Please, let’s set up a meeting ASAP. Tell me where and how to connect. Thank you!
This is a good idea! Andrew please run for president.
Yes!!
Let’s get these guys on Sam Harris’s Making Sense podcast where his subs helped exceed all the Go Fund Me goals for the last documentarian he had on with a compelling message to share 🧢 can’t wait to see Bootstraps shared around the world 🥰
Forward Party ought to have RFK JR as the nominee if he agrees to do Universal Basic Income. It's status and policy victory for the Forward Party. Funding and potential assistance in ballot access for RFK JR including signatures and support team.
Can you set up Comingle so that for months when you give more than you receive that dela is considered a charitable donation? Seems as if you can give to a charitable donation to a non-profit who spend that money to help people, this shiuod be the same.
Good question.
That's TBD, because the IRS is not accustomed to this sort of setup, and may need to be convinced with data over time that it should count as charitable by their definitions.
If and when we make it tax deductible for members who are net givers, my suspicion is that it'd be on an annual basis, rather than monthly. In other words, if someone gave more than they received over the course of a tax year, they'd get a tax deduction. Again, though, that's TBD when that might happen.
Perhaps more importantly, anybody giving relatively small amounts of money wouldn't really be able to take advantage of tax deductibility, anyway, because you have to be giving quite a lot of money before a charitable deduction would surpass the standard deduction (something like $13,850 this year) that everybody gets at tax time (you have to pick one or the other, and you always go with the bigger of the two).
In general, it only ever makes sense to itemize any deductions for people with very significant business and/or charitable expenses in a given year.
I actually did see you speak in IOWA! 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
Psychologically, doing a UBI test will never show you the truth of what UBI would actually do. It's only a slight indicator.
The only way to do a real test that encompasses the full psychological repercussions is to make a 'permanent' adjustment to their income or something that feels permanent. A couple years isn't good enough. People have to know it's going to be there no matter what, in order for them to react with it. Someone may feel inspired to open their own business with the additional stable income, but if it isn't long-term stable, then they won't. You're then getting a skewed set of information in your setting. At least 10 years would probably be sufficient, and they have to KNOW it'll be there that long.
Thank you for your comment.
You're absolutely right that limited experiments with direct cash cannot show us all of the outcomes, either micro or macro, of a permanent and universal basic income. They can only give us useful glimpses of the potential of direct cash aid.
Our docuseries will take care to acknowledge its limitations as such an experiment, whose purpose is to broaden the discussion far enough to get people interested in experimenting with true UBI.
Comingle, in turn, is our effort to experiment with permanence and universality, in order to create and study such outcomes.
Please invite Amala Ekpunobi and Allan J. Lichtman to your podcast. I really love to see you having a chat with them.
Opinion from a Canadian here. I think a much more productive conversation with the UBI skeptics would be to have a serious conversation about a Negative Income Tax proposal.
Keep printing that money and watch what happens……
It's crazy that right now you stand a better chance at winning the democratic ticket for President than Biden yet you don't run. Hopefully one day you come back.
He won’t because he made himself look like a idiot when running for mayor with his anti homeless policy.
When the gentlemen spoke about our trash to poor countries something I didn't know about. His statement is on target. Which circles back to DC putting Corp first and citizens an after thought with constant rhetoric that "we can't" a number of things because of money, but $ goes overseas and they received m4a. So that alone speaks on power, $, influence. The lack of humility, empathy and simple respect for our neighbors. In conclusion vote for American families and what best move our society forward not decades even centuries of greed and corruption with the rich laughing to the bank while Americans cont arguments left to right.
trash and used clothing - totally clogging their life and they BURN the extras further keeping their own people sick and in poverty - it is horrible --- I now thrift only - and sew to make adjustments - clothes can still be fun - but they don't have to be total new every month - let us all care about each other
Thanks for the talk. But how do you make sure U.B.I doesn't end up being used as a whipping stick?
The letter U stands for universal (and/or unconditional), meaning if there is any reason it can be withheld from somebody, it isn't UBI. Coincidentally, this whipping stick issue is one of the big problems with welfare as we know it, and a huge reason for doing UBI instead.
So, the answer is to make sure it's actually set up and protected as a real UBI, and that there are no ways for a person to be disqualified for any reason. It has to be codified into the law as a right.
@@ConradShawActor
Thanks for the reply! That sounds like as good a suggestion as anyone else has made on this issue.
@@ConradShawActorbut pushing ubi by itself is doom to fail. Sure yay I get an extra 1000$ but without rent control to go along with ubi then my landlord will take a portion of my 1000$……..
@@matsal3211 who said we have to push it all by itself? I agree that that would be silly. Housing regulations and rent control are a thing we need to push for regardless of whether we have or are fighting for UBI, and I support those efforts, too. Landlords and real estate speculators are already hiking rents and home values as high as possible to collect as much of the wealth out there as possible. The fact of people stealing our money is not best solved by making sure we continue to have no money.
UBI is a tool for better distributing access to resources by making sure people have money with which to get what they need in the consumer marketplace. As such, it only works when markets are competitive and well-regulated. This is true for money in general. So absolutely we need to make sure our markets function competitively. Currently, the housing, education, and healthcare/medicine markets do not function this way, and either need to be better regulated and/or should perhaps be provided as services by the government (like with universal healthcare).
@@matsal3211 however - we need to make a first step - no just cry over all the possible ways someone can use the system - right NOW doctors and corporations are using the system - so better a single landlord than the few ultra rich, eh?
Andrew Yang is making Jehovah happy. God, our creator is happy! He wants humans to have everything that they need and not to live with hardship material or otherwise 😊
Look up the average wage of more than half of all Americans. Then learn what Universal Based Income is. It only makes sense to me. What is wrong with a little change for the good?
Because pushing ubi as it’s own without any major reforms is a failure. Sure yay ubi but without rent control my landlord will take a portion of my ubi
@matsal3211 Reform is a good thing!
What’s the point of paying taxes then?
taxes still pay state workers for things like health inspectors, water inspectors, factory inspections to make sure they don't pollute our rivers or ground water/earth, and road maintenance.
Taxes are the price we pay for living in a civilized society
I would fund a UBI with a value-added tax and borrowing as by doing it this way we could simulate inflation to combat the inevitable deflation automation will cause. Deflation can destroy economies.
Gosh you’re unbelievable. A VAT tax is one of the most regressive tax and countries that have it hate it. Go listen to Michael brooks Critiques on Yang and ubi as a single item policy rather then a add on to our safety net system
The debt-based fiat currency system and VAT are powerful economic tools.
Comment for the algorithm.
Factor is just delivering more single use plastic containers. Horrible.
Andrew you should have a Conversation with Vivek Ramaswamy
he did
Andrew, bless his heart is open to speaking with everyone. For me, vivek is the kind of person all the scriptures warn about. Someone with a lust for money and power and control.
@@HariOm-dp7um yeah and you just Described the entire Government Buercracary System also, so I say talk to Everyone about undoing the True Money Controllers
@@pyrodiscoflash6115agree.. that’s what I appreciate about Andrew
He has the capacity and the heart and intellect to speak with anyone … and still remain grounded in his values and character. I pray that never changes … and I’m hoping we have a Yang2028 ticket.
@@tinhinnhwhen? What video?
I am where I am
Forgive me there seems to be a lot of hit and runs
I wonder why Yang never talks about RFK Jr as a Biden alternative
'cause RFK is a NUT job LOL
Love you Andrew, but please try and be more aware of your tendency to start laughing or out-sounding others just when they're about to hit their main point. Can't count how many times you interrupted Scott this way in this pod, often times to the point where we don't even get to hear the final words of his sentence.
@Yang When you were up for President, I liked your UBI, but too much of the rest of your opinions were too far to the Right. You should get together with Bernie Sanders, and maybe he'll be able to swing your ideas more to the Left. The next Presidential vote might fit with you since Bernie gave it up.
If you’re a leftist then watch Michael brooks thoughts on Yang
We are told not to feed animals in the wild because they would become dependent on people feeding them, what is the difference with UBI?
Well, firstly, people aren't animals. I know many people are total scumbags, that's true. But how do we help up the good ones? Check out some of the stories, it's really interesting. Trump essentially did a basic income during the pandemic. Remember those random checks he sent? These guys are liberal and they don't want to promote him. But he did it. I used it actually to buy a hair salon, to buy a business. With my business I put my daughter through college. The UBI stuff is really, really, different than welfare or socialism. Its hard to understand, but it's important to remember there are many people who need help up, and the current system is an abomination bleeding money to accomplish...I don't know what it is accomplishing.
Firstly, I know there are many, many total scumbags, but humans are not animals. It's hard to open to the idea, but if you look at some of the stories of people who receive this type of aid, you see some pretty amazing stories. It's very different than welfare. And a whole different world from socialism. Trump gave essentially a basic income out during the pandemic. Remember those checks he sent out? I'm a story from that decision he made. These guys are progressives so they don't want to promote Trump, that's fine. But he actually did it! And I bought my own hair salon with exactly that Trump money. (I didn't take the CA unemployment) And then I paid my daughter's college successfully. She still went to school and I paid it by working. Anyway, the stories are so creative. The welfare system we have right now is an abomination bleeding money and gives just about enough to live in the street and pay the dope man. It's a failure, and there are many people who could become solid contributors like me. People are not actually animals. It just looks like that because they have no hope.
What is the difference with a grocery store?
Human beings are not wild animals. We have the capacity for strong feelings of societal obligation and collaboration across millions of people. We have stories and narratives, we have societies and nations, and we each have a deep and abiding desire to achieve higher purpose and legacy, to matter to the world around us and to our species.
That's why we're the dominant species on the planet by a mile. It's not that we're just that much individually smarter or more talented as creatures. It's that we have the capacity to work together across groups of millions or billions toward complex, shared goals built around mutual stories.
And when we provide people a heartbeat of income unconditionally and with trust, you usually find that people strive toward these higher ideals, because they are what truly drive us when fear and scarcity are removed, and when those narratives of society and belonging are reinforced.
It's when we force people to compete with each other for scraps and basic subsistence that we see dependence and more "animalistic" behavior, because we're perpetuating a system that backs people into a corner like wild animals.
Threaten someone's ability to feed themselves or their kids, and you get survival behavior. Empower and trust them, and you unleash our better angels.
This isn't just nice sounding theory at this point. It's what has been witnessed every time, across at least a hundred thousand participants of over a hundred different basic income experiments (less crime/vice/addiction, more business creation, more trust, healthier family life, higher integrity/morality, etc).
As long as you take from those who produce and give it to those who produce less or not at all, it's welfare. I don't trust any of these guys as a dispassionate authority on UBI because they come right out of the box being disingenuous in their attempt to "frame" the discussion. They are promoters, nothing more, nothing less.
The problem I have with giving people basic income is it would give taxpayers money to illegals and I am against that. I love that the governor of Louisiana blocked 1 million dollars of taxpayers money going to illegals. If we were to have a basic income it should go to US citizens only.
We need to find a system for successfully managing immigration (not eliminating it). Until we do it's like Andrew's analogy of trying to fill a bathtub with a giant hole in the bottom. Right now there's too much partisan political capital in NOT working together to sincerely solve the immigration problem. There is very little hope for UBI until we do.
A UBI would only be paid to citizens.
I believe only US citizens is (or was Yang's plan) the plan, but I'm sure the Dems would destroy the whole thing instantly with this exact rule.
@@higreentj how do we know that? The Democrats already give free everything to illegals.
Until you link government programs with mandated birth control then I won't be on board with these giveaways. You create more dependency and more children of dependent families and more giveaways.
Nobody takes de-population people like you seriously. Just know that
just say NO to board games.
This was pre-posted WAY TOO EARLY. A bit early is clever, a week early means that ell subscribers have this stupid ******in' tile in their feed all day for week. BAD MOVE. Learn from it.
You going to be ok?
I'm truly sorry life has been so hard for you.
this has to be bait.
I am where I am