scott on altman bi
scott santens on sam altman‘s (not unconditional) basic income pilot
Did Sam Altman’s Basic Income Pilot Prove or Disprove UBI? – aug 2024 – [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ur7lcfn0CrM]:
As a leading expert on the topic of unconditional/universal basic income (UBI), a subject area I’ve been focused on now since 2013, I’m constantly trying to correct misunderstandings and debunk misinformation/disinformation spread about the concept and the evidence behind it.
The results of another big test of basic income were released in July 2024 and there’s a lot of poorly informed summaries and opinions out there about it. As someone who has actually read the results released so far (there’s still more coming) as well as the results from over a hundred other studies of basic income and unconditional cash transfers in general, here is my distillation of the findings and the importance nuances of those findings in the context of the pilot itself, and in the larger context of other pilot results.
Twitter thread pilot summary: https://x.com/scottsantens/status/181
Article url: https://www.scottsantens.com/did-sam-altman-basic-income-experiment-succeed-or-fail-ubi/
disclaimer: this is rather.. all evidence that even bi is still a cancerous distraction – all the time/energy we spend trying to prove this/that/whatever..
need any form of measuring/accounting/people telling other people what to do as the planned obsolescence .. where legit needs are met w/o money.. till people forget about measuring..ie: sabbatical ish transition
notes from article:
Conclusion
*The fear is that basic income would mean dramatic decreases in employment, but none of the data supports that fear, not even Altman’s pilot that showed a slight decrease for parents and young adults. Clearly, all of the resources put into making sure that people are working or seeking work is pointless. Clearly, the means-testing that excludes such a huge percentage of people in poverty and causes so much stigma is needlessly harmful. **Clearly, all of the administrative overhead going into avoiding just sending people money to spend on anything instead of insisting on anything but cash, is wasteful. So why are we wasting so much money on the paychecks of middlemen bureaucrats instead of just sending that money directly to people to spend in their local economies?
*if still talking employment.. huge red flag
**bi is still admin overhead ness.. need a means sans any form of m\a\p
notes/quotes from 33 min video:
4 min – data on employment – hrs, pay, paid leave, et al
earn a living ness is a cancerous distraction to the unconditional ness of left to own devices ness
8 min – on it not being less hours.. just a switch from paid to unpaid hours.. so if that’s important to you.. need to support child support
9 min – younger workers use money for ed.. witch from [aid work to unpaid work of earning
oi… supposed to’s of school/work
11 min – talk all based on pay/money
so not unconditional ness of left to own devices ness
13 min – Entrepreneurship effects
15 min – Job search effects
16 min – Not a saturation pilot
18 min – Job quality effects
19 min – Geographic mobility effects
20 min – Less abuse of drugs and alcohol – showed positive effects – then %’s et al.. hard to look at results as anything other than pointing to better health.. better health savings
hari present in society law.. will end up same song.. unless legit free
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: whatever for a year.. a legit sabbatical ish transition
there’s a legit use of tech (nonjudgmental expo labeling).. to facil a legit global detox leap.. for (blank)’s sake.. and we’re missing it
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)
22 min – Spending behavior – least interesting to me – all focus on this – using money to pay for needs.. – spent more on childcare.. cash only tool..
again.. need to try a sabbatical ish transition
24 min – no good/service govt can provide that address every need.. ubi skeleton key to open that door.. bi is basic freedom
not if any form of m\a\p.. not if still measuring things..
perhaps let’s try/code money (any form of measuring/accounting/people telling other people what to do) as the planned obsolescence .. where legit needs are met w/o money.. till people forget about measuring..ie: sabbatical ish transition
28 min – Conclusion – *no reduction in work – saves on **B if just give cash –
and *this is a plus for it?.. oi.. kilpi work law et al
need to make all *B ness irrelevant.. otherwise still same song
again.. perhaps let’s try/code money (any form of measuring/accounting/people telling other people what to do) as the planned obsolescence .. where legit needs are met w/o money.. till people forget about measuring..ie: sabbatical ish transition
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