david on ubi
david graeber on unconditional basic income
‘i think ubi is great.. an acknowledgment that nobody else has right to tell you what you can best contribute to the world.. and it’s based on a certain faith – that people want to contribute.. the problem is we have this gigantic apparatus that presumes to tell people who’d worthy.. what people should be doing.. best thing to do is just to say, alright everyone go out and you decide for yourselvess’ – david graeber
so huge – something we haven’t yet tried: the unconditional part of left to own devices ness
graeber ubi advantage law
david on left-to-own-devices ness
lots on pages already.. but adding page because of this bsky [https://bsky.app/profile/davidgraeberinst.bsky.social/post/3lisnzuwip223]:
A few thoughts on Universal Basic Income.
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perhaps let’s try/code money (any form of measuring/accounting/people telling other people what to do) as the planned obsolescence w/ubi as temp/invisible placebo.. where legit needs are met w/o money.. till people forget about measuring..ie: sabbatical ish transition
until we try the unconditional we won’t get to the root of problem
legit freedom will only happen if it’s all of us.. and in order to be all of us.. has to be sans any form of measuring, accounting, people telling other people what to do
how we gather in a space is huge.. need to try spaces of permission where people have nothing to prove to facil curiosity over decision making.. because the finite set of choices of decision making is unmooring us.. keeping us from us..
ie: imagine if we listened to the itch-in-8b-souls 1st thing everyday & used that data to connect us (tech as it could be.. ai as augmenting interconnectedness)
the thing we’ve not yet tried/seen: the unconditional part of left to own devices ness
[‘in an undisturbed ecosystem ..the individual left to its own devices.. serves the whole’ –dana meadows]
there’s a legit use of tech (nonjudgmental exponential labeling) to facil the seeming chaos of a global detox leap/dance.. the unconditional part of left-to-own-devices ness.. for (blank)’s sake.. and we’re missing it
ie: whatever for a year.. a legit sabbatical ish transition
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be you. 