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Denver Basic Income Project for the unhoused sees the number of participants who own or rent a home increase from 5% of participants to 40% in 6 months. (drive.google.com)

submitted 1 year ago by EGG_CREAM to c/upliftingnews

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There are multiple groups, the group referred to in the title received a lump sum of $6500 the first month, then $500 every month after that.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

This is so cool! I can't wait for the US government to see this data and implement the program nation wide!!! :(

[–] chuckleslord 4 points 1 year ago

Business reviewed this proposal and it didn't give the right amount of dread to keep employees panicking about keeping their jobs. Everyone knows that employees afraid of losing their jobs are ~~less likely to form unions~~ more productive!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Some of the laboratories of democracy are pretty progressive, some more than the countries thought of as "progressive" in some ways even. But those ideas are never implemented nationally.

[–] NewPerspective 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Why is this a Google drive link? If the PDF is publicly available, link to that.

[–] frickineh 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's how DBIP published it. When you go to their website, the link goes to their google drive

[–] NewPerspective 3 points 1 year ago

[+] thisisawayoflife -22 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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[–] Specific_Skunk 19 points 1 year ago

As opposed to what? Leaving people homeless so those greedy banks and landlords can’t get at their money? Yeah, that’ll show ‘em.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (2 children)

This is such a deranged fucking comment

Yeah, let people be homeless, it’s better than paying for them to live somewhere, they can all get fucked

Like seriously, who thinks like this

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

the majority of usa populace. most folks in America believe in a just world where those who are good are rich and should be rewarded and those who are bad are poor and should be punished.

hence why when a billionaire breaks the laws nobody cares, but when a poor person steals food they should be locked up.

they also believe in zero-sum thinking, where if anyone gets anything it came at the expense of someone else. they have no concept of how economics and life actually works. just consumed by jealousy and bitterness and assuming if others didn't 'take' from them they would have more.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

There is also the concept of the American Dream being sold to the people, with everyone being convinced they can "make it" if they just try hard enough and after they do they want to reap the rewards the rich are awarded. John Oliver summed the line of thinking up almost a decade ago: "yes, I can clearly see this game is rigged, which is gonna make it so sweet when I win this thing!" ^[1]

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Giving desperate people money for food and housing is clearly a plot to benefit BIG CAPITALISM!