Testing for primal

If you don’t believe people with epilepsy, especially women, should still be burned at the stake rather than given medical care, but you still believe poor and unhoused people are responsible for their “lot in life”, please take half an hour to listen to this essay, then get on the right side of history.

Turtles All the Way Down: The Biological Case for Universal Basic Income

If our decisions are shaped by forces we never chose, then punishing people for those decisions and withholding the resources that would improve th...

Robert Sapolsky’s book Determined: A Science of Life Without Free Will

If you don’t believe people with epilepsy, especially women, should still be burned at the stake rather than given medical care, but you still believe poor and unhoused people are responsible for their “lot in life”, please take half an hour to listen to this essay, then get on the right side of history.

Turtles All the Way Down: The Biological Case for Universal Basic Income

If our decisions are shaped by forces we never chose, then punishing people for those decisions and withholding the resources that would improve th...

Robert Sapolsky’s book Determined: A Science of Life Without Free Will Bitcoin and UBI share many values.

Would you give this economic model for a small UBI for all citizens a read please. It’s not an income replacement, rather an enhancement for all. Something to smooth over the transition AI is going to cause. Your critical eye would be welcome. Cheers. WTF https://www.patreon.com/scottsantens/posts/160333861?utm_campaign=postshare_fan

Anyone else think the new “child protection” laws will be the gateway to NOSTR?

ChatGPT made this for me at my prompting tell me why I shouldn’t post it on social media…oops tooo late.

Science for the win

Finland Gave Two Groups Identical Payments. One Experienced 33% Better Mental Health.

New research from Finland's basic income experiment proves that simply trusting people with money—not just the money itself—significantly impro...

Is Zohran Mamdani the reincarnation of Henry George? Because it feels like NYC just elected the guy who might finish the revolution George died trying to start. 🗽🔥 ⸻ A young, African-born, Muslim mayor with no machine backing. Winning in New York City, the capital of rent extraction. Talking openly about rent freezes, free transit, public essentials. Owing nothing to the real estate class. @ScottSantens @_HenryGeorge @HousingTW ⸻ This is exactly the political DNA needed for the first real Land Value Tax uprising in a century. If NYC captures even a fraction of land value for the public, the dominoes fall globally. @henrygeorgeorg @ProgressandPov @StrongTowns ⸻ You can feel it: Bitcoin as neutral reserve. UBI as safety net. LVT as fairness engine. Young voters done with scarcity politics. @LynAldenContact @Gladstein @AndrewYang ⸻ Henry George ran for NYC mayor twice. He was about to win the second time when he died. History didn’t repeat — it paused. Is Mamdani the one to un-pause it? @ZohranKMamdani @StreetsblogNYC @nycDSA