Twitter billionaire Jack Dorsey just announced he will be funding a universal basic income experimen

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Twitter billionaire Jack Dorsey just announced he will be funding a universal basic income experiment that could affect up to 7 million people

Taylor Nicole Rogers 

9 hours ago

https://www.businessinsider.com/twitter-billionaire-jack-dorsey-universal-basic-income-experiment-2020-7?utm_source=reddit.com

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On Thursday, Jack Dorsey, the billionaire CEO of Twitter, announced he is working with 14 American mayors to fund universal basic income (UBI) trials in their cities.

The pilot programs will be run city by city and have not yet launched.

Former presidential candidate Andrew Yang helped bring the idea of universal basic income into the mainstream and is funding his own UBI pilot program.

Proponents say guaranteed incomes could help close America's growing wealth gap, while others say they could compound America's financial crisis by encouraging people to stop working.

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[Sherman A1]

1. Excellent

I read about this on Andrew Yang’s Humanity Forward Facebook page. I am looking forward to seeing the project develop.

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2. Ontario had started a study but when conservative Doug Ford won

the provincial election he scrapped it. I'm dying to see how it works.

[Sherman A1]

3. I am as well

I believe Yang was and is about 3 steps ahead of the then primary field in his thinking. It comes down to what I believe is simply “we measure things incorrectly.”

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4. You need data to measure things. So hopefully the data will be there

in spades thanks to Dorsey et al.

[Midnight Writer]

5. Gee, I wonder if his fellow social media billionaires will participate?

Sorry, I forgot how to do the sarcasm thingie.