Rutger Bregman argues universal basic income, called the Freedom Dividend, could unite left and right and end poverty. He cites Martin Luther King, Milton Friedman, and others across the political spectrum who backed it. Kyle Christensen and his mother Pam show what the dividend looks like in practice.
We come a place and live a life of grace and drippings from the ceiling. It's okay to eat fish 'cause they don't have any feelings.
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I'll become my pets and I'll live off of grass and drippings from the ceiling. It's okay to eat fish because they don't have any feelings.
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And the animals I've trapped all become my pets. And I dig a lot of grass and the drippings from the ceiling. It's okay to eat fish because they don't have any feelings.
Something in the Where you don't know how you're going to provide for yourself from month to month, you have no idea what it's like to feel hopeless. Dr. Martin Luther King believed in leveling the playing field. He wanted to see poverty eradicated, and Dr. King was championing a guaranteed income at the time of his assassination. The The Freedom Dividend is not just about money. It's about what it will empower people to do. Kyle Christensen and his mother Pam were selected as part of the pilot program to receive the Freedom Dividend for 1 year.
I don't know who would look after me.
Today, I'd like to share a big idea with you. In fact, I believe it could be one of the biggest ideas of the 21st century. It's an idea that could unite politicians from the left to the right, in fixing our broken social security system. It's an idea that could give dignity to millions and accomplish what we should have accomplished long ago, especially in our rich and wealthy countries—eradicating poverty. But first, I have to be honest with you. It's actually not my idea. No, in fact, it's the idea of this man, Thomas Paine, who sadly wasn't able to make it today because, well, he died 200 years ago. But it was also the idea of these guys, some of history's greatest thinkers. Now I can hear you think, what kind of idea could unite men so different, such as the civil rights campaigner Martin Luther King on the one hand and the free market economist Milton Friedman on the other hand? What kind of idea could unite thinkers so different such as Thomas Paine, who thought that the government is the solution to most of our problems, and on the other hand, Friedrich von Hayek, the Austrian economist who said that, well, the government is in fact the problem most of the time. What is this idea that goes against the spirit of our times, right through the old political divisions between the left and the right?
And the animals I've trapped all become my pets. And I dig a mouth of grass and it drips from the ceiling. It's okay to eat fish because they don't have any feelings. Something in the way.
Something in the way. Yeah, something in the way. Something in the way. Yeah. Something in the way.
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