I live in a shitty neighborhood with minimal options for kids and a lot of litter. First thing I’m doing is opening a nonprofit, daycare for kids ages 7-14. We’ll focus on gaming, tabletop, and casual activity as well as local activism and civil service. We’ll also teach cyber responsibility and privacy, kids are going to be on the internet more than any of us were growing up and someone needs to stop them from falling into the pipelines we did.
If a universal basic income started today with the stipulation that you had to put 40 hrs/wk towards making the world a better place or solving societal problems, how would you spend your time?
Submitted 1 year ago by njordomir@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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Postmortal_Pop@lemmy.world 1 year ago
njordomir@lemmy.world 1 year ago
That would be awesome. I don’t know where you live, but in the US, with everything being so car-centric, there are few activities that are accessible to kids without money and begging parents for a ride.
Talked to someone close to me about the internet thing for 2-3 hours just the other day. We can’t legislate something like this, it has to be taught.
Great answer. I hope you win the lotto and can do this while living a comfortable life!
Postmortal_Pop@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Yeah, here in south central Kansas it’s particularly bad. I have 3 card shops in the area but they’re all 40+min walks with the way traffic works here and our neighborhood is historically a slum. Apparently there used to be a nice park around the corner but the city took it away due to vandalism so there’s a whole named park that’s just an unpainted basketball court.
I’ve been here for almost a year and we only just found out that two of my son’s class mates are our neighbors. There’s just no good way for kids to leave the house here.
TragicNotCute@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Picking up trash
njordomir@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I’d join you and strap a broom to the bottom of my bike to sweep gutters and sidewalks!
Efwis@lemmy.zip 1 year ago
I’d stay home that way I’m not adding to societal problems.
Seriously though, the ONLY stipulations that should be put on UBI are:
1.) do you make over $100,000/year? This info is easily obtained from your W-2 that you are given every year for taxes.
2.) do you own a business? Once again easily obtained via public record and filing of your taxes via 1099 forms.
3.) are you over the age of 18? Once again easily verified through birth certificate dates via public record based on your social security number/resident green card (after 5 years of documented residency in the country. )
All this info is in government databases so there would be no concern of undocumented immigrants able to receive said funds or people getting more money because of having minors in there home.
You shouldn’t have to apply for it, hence the term universal.
snooggums@midwest.social 1 year ago
UBI is based on having zero stipulations. The idea is that it benefits the less well of more by giving them a stable income, and it is cheaper to give it to everyone than spending any time and effort figuring out who the ‘right’ people are.
Everyone gets it is what makes it universal. There could atill be a process like voter registration so they know where to send the money, but citizens would never be denied.
Bipta@kbin.social 1 year ago
Gating UBI only would make the well off bitter and turn them against it. Besides that, it would disincentivize work. UBI is not supposed to entirely replace all work in a society, even if it might result in some individuals not working.
reversebananimals@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I would spend my time at my current job making more money than this program would pay.
kbin_space_program@kbin.run 1 year ago
Well, several of my bosses are working on a way to hire me permanently to do just that.
The issye is that they have to convince highly conservative senior management that hiring a guy for $x an hour is a lot less than contracting the same guy for $5x an hour as part of a consulting firm
Juice@midwest.social 1 year ago
Political organizing and education. Most problems, especially economic and societal problems are rooted in political causes: bureaucratization, consolidation of power, bottlenecking, corruption, etc.,
Only active participation in democratic organizing of mass movements along class concerns has ever been effective at combatting these social illnesses. This starts and ends with educational development. We are kept weak through confusion and ignorance.
insufferableninja@lemdro.id 1 year ago
I’d just keep doing my job instead
VinesNFluff@pawb.social 1 year ago
Volunteer at a school/daycare for poor kids. My (retired, formerly college professor) mother already does. I’m sure I could teach them some stuff. Maths or history or how to work computers.
Wiz@midwest.social 1 year ago
I’d probably quit my job, and work as a writer, artist, game designer, and entertainer full time. I’m worried about health care, though, being in the US. Can you throw in a little Medicaid for All in there?
100_kg_90_de_belin@feddit.it 1 year ago
I would keep on doing my job (teaching English as a foreign language), but I could get rid of all the pointless stuff such as grades, tests etc etc
3volver@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I would start working on a cyclical algae production system that would work indoors and rely on renewable energy. It would need to be built somewhere with plenty of sun and water. The goal would be to produce dried compacted algae to use for fuel while being carbon negative.
eronth@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I would just keep working. UBI should be unlocking the ability for us to pursue our passions, hobbies, and mental/physical health. If I just gotta work anyways, I choose my current job.
dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de 1 year ago
Im a software developer, so I guess whatever I’m told to do. I’ll do it.
AnalogyAddict@lemmy.world 1 year ago
If I could wave a magic wand, training therapy horses. Or doing what I already do, but in a place that actually wants me to do it.
Toes@ani.social 1 year ago
Free tech support on lemmy
Shotgun_Alice@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I would make art again.
card797@champserver.net 1 year ago
Play my clarinet in the French Quarter. Yeah! That’s it.
Davidchan@lemmynsfw.com 1 year ago
I work in residential therapy. If me helping people with serious trauma progress their therapy and develop healthier lifestyle routines and prevent self harming doesn’t constitute as solving societal probems then I want to know what the person defining who gets UBI is smoking
Brawndo@kbin.social 1 year ago
herrcaptain@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
I’d probably do two things:
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Properly learn to code and spend much of that time developing open source software.
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Immediately move out to the woods to start a wildlife sanctuary.
That said, while I’m a huge proponent of UBI, I definitely don’t think it could ever work this way (though I get that this was just a fun thought experiment).
In actuality I see the outcome of a UBI as working class people having a little more time and energy to properly invest in themselves, either through education, self care, etc. Studies have shown that largely people continue to work (or better yet, start their own small business), albeit not necessarily at the backbreaking and emotionally-draining pace they currently do.
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Notyou@sopuli.xyz 1 year ago
Animal shelter work, or do litter pick up in the woods or the beach.
Bocky@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Same as I do now, working 20 hrs/week doing fun stuff. Basic income wouldn’t be enough to support what I do to make myself happy.
HootinNHollerin@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I’m a mechanical engineer product designer so using that for where I can to protect coral reefs