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Stockton, California Offers Universal Basic Income!

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Michael Tubbs, the 27-year-old mayor of Stockton, California, has a radical plan to combat poverty in his cash-strapped city: a “no strings” guaranteed basic income of $500 a month for its residents.

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Starting in early 2019, Tubbs plans to provide the monthly stipend to a select group of residents as part of a privately funded 18-month experiment to assess how people use the money.

“And then, maybe, in two or three years, we can have a much more informed discussion about the social safety net, the income floor people deserve and the best way to do it because we'll have more data and research,” Tubbs told Reuters.

The city has not yet decided how many people will receive income from the trial project, which is funded by The Economic Security Project, a philanthropic network co-chaired by Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes.



The idea of governments providing a universal basic income to their citizens has been gaining traction globally. The Finnish government is running a two-year trial to provide 2,000 unemployed people with monthly payments of approximately $660.

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This glorious idea will make people flock to Stockton like they did during the Oklahoma Land Rush



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Antonio Salazarinski wrote:The Finnish government is running a two-year trial to provide 2,000 unemployed people with monthly payments of approximately $660.

The Finnish experiment has been such a stunning failure success that they've decided to end it by the end of this year and go in a completely different direction Forward™.


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Even Marx hadn't thought of this trick to achieve communism. Apparently, in his age capitalism hadn't created enough wealth yet to make giving away free money possible. This makes one wonder: if we hold off our revolution for a little longer, what other pleasant surprises will capitalism give us? In this situation we don't have to do anything - we simply continue to call ourselves revolutionaries and keep riding the gravy train, claiming credit for whatever capitalism will have to offer.

Here is how this works:

Giving away free money is the first step towards making money lose any meaning.

And that is the first step towards the concept of money withering away, along with the government, family, and private property. The result is the communist society envisioned by Marx and Engels.

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I'll follow it up with a Soviet joke:

In a distant future, after communism has been established all over the world, a little boy was digging in the dirt and found a metal ruble. He ran to his mommy.

"Mommy, what's this?"
"This is money," she says.
"And what's money?"
"A long time ago, people used it to buy milk, bread, and potatoes."
"And what's milk, bread, and potatoes?"

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Must the distributed money be only in U.S. Treasury notes? Is this not fiscalist profiling? I have much Monopoly money that I would wish to use, but it is not accepted by the bloated kapitalists ... perhaps because it is (gasp) of the wrong color? This is indeed not only fiscalist but racist.

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RedDiaperette wrote:Must the distributed money be only in U.S. Treasury notes? Is this not fiscalist profiling? I have much Monopoly money that I would wish to use, but it is not accepted by the bloated kapitalists ... perhaps because it is (gasp) of the wrong color? This is indeed not only fiscalist but racist.

Consider this a rare act

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RedDiaperette wrote:Must the distributed money be only in U.S. Treasury notes? Is this not fiscalist profiling? I have much Monopoly money that I would wish to use, but it is not accepted by the bloated kapitalists ... perhaps because it is (gasp) of the wrong color? [highlight=#ffff00]This is indeed not only fiscalist but racist.[/highlight]

This is a most equal application of the theory of Intersectionality™ to economics.

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Comrades,

Encouraging sloth, promoting laziness, and applauding dependence in all its myriad forms is gaining the widespread acceptance it so richly deserves. The entire membership of University of Denver Tree Huggers International supports and endorses this most progressive program.

Abstract from our recently submitted research paper;

"Laziness is commonly perceived as lethargy and carries a negative connotation. In this article, I argue to understand laziness as a political stance and suggest that lazy practices can become useful for postqualitative inquiry that seeks to disrupt normative explanations of the world. As political action, laziness, then provides postqualitative inquiry with an additional tool for contributing to social justice via social research. Laziness combats the neoliberal condition in which academic research is situated and might serve as a virtue of postqualitative inquiry."
Reporting for Craptek NEWS,

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Yes, Captain Craptek, quaternio terminorum...most equally impressive!

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What A CALAMITY An Opportunity for our Beet Kollectiv! All Almost Half Many Several A Few of Our Beet-Field Workers Digging Specialists have ABANDONED Left Are Taking A Well-Deserved Break from Our Kollectiv Beet-Fields to share in this Capitalist Enslavement Free Government $$$ Opportunity! We Administrators are Hopeful Certain that they will return Home, all eager to share their new-found $$$ with The Entire Community! (Because they know what might be not so good for their families if they do not...)

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Teach a man to make money and you feed him for a lifetime. Give a man free money and capitalists like me will trick him out of it.

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Teach a man to fish and you lose a Democrat voter.

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Red Square wrote:Teach a man to fish and you lose a Democrat voter.

Like me


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I posted this on another topic, but it belongs here as well.

Seattle: Free Heroin For Junkies!


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Red Square wrote:I posted this on another topic, but it belongs here as well.

Seattle: Free Heroin For Junkies!


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And you wind up with this:

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