and a mid intermediate aliases on to my, in china now, but of, of, to my china, they have to 1st to take out rush. mm ah, most people, i know they laid their 8 hour job and go home and relax. but i have about 3 or 4 more hours to go. so i just keep them close. change my clothes, the 1st job, go to the 2nd and they just keeps and keep me from want to go home. oh, what's the book about this town? i well, it is spanish. you have to repeat the mailbox. it was, it was amish. ah,

yeah. i'm, i have listen to some of that one with you. ah, if you didn't have to, maybe work is hard to get by. you kinda maybe spend more time with your loved ones . why? you still have them margaret, this is my grandpa sister. she ah, came off a horse i in a curve. i found her on a bank and overhears my grand great grandmother and great grandfather. here it's peaceful. i really like it up here and and since my family's married here, how does feel like i need to come up here and and take care of the same material. mm. i disliked volunteer,

and i do thanks for my community in try to make a difference. no one ever dies and says, and i wish i had a better job. they say i wish had more time to spend with my family. i wish i could have explored some of my interests of music or ard, or church, or being a baseball coach. and so i just think we're at a moment where we're going to have machines and artificial intelligence produce a lot of things much more cheaply than we've ever seen before. we're going to have the potential for abundance. and when we have abundance, what we should do is give people the chance to live out their dreams, whatever they are. and that's the gift of this moment. if we don't turn it into the hackers, we already spend millions of dollars every year in this country to try to address poverty and economic insecurity. what do we get for that money?

we get 50 percent of americans living paycheck to paycheck. 50 percent of americans who have little or no savings in the bank to tie them over if they encounter a serious illness. 50 percent americans don't have that kind of savings to get them over that kind of advance. come on in the house. here. it is. what it is, but i'm happy here much the rocks very much of over. i seriously thought i was the help this person ever. i all sudden just feel like someone hit me and my spine with an axe and my blood pressure was 380 over 260. and then they finally came in and decided that i had an a order dissection. there's 3 lines to your a order which fees all your body with blood. and mine was ripping apart both by

the force of the blood. which means i have my blood pressure down very, very low. because it gets too high, you have a rupture in you just dead where you're at me when you're sick and you're trying to deal with her potentially fatal health issue . there's so much stress, you know, on the financial end of it because you're getting these phone calls every day and, and every attorney, i will call it like a 101200 bucks, just to file bankruptcy. now i'm thinking, you know, am i so broke? i can't afford to offer bankruptcy, you know, my cardiovascular specialist there, vanderbilt, he wrote on my medical records, he said look, this guy does not need to wait for his disability. he needs it now. and i still had

to wait 15 months if it hadn't been for family and some friends, i don't know what i would have done. i really don't because i mean, i had no money and you know, i had to, i had to eat you can look at someone like you can look at me right now. perhaps and, and maybe think of a perfectly healthy, but you don't know what's going on inside someone's body in it . what we spend another 4 trillion dollars on. we spend another trillion dollars on tax cuts. are wealthy people. do you see the effects of wealthy people spending those tax cuts that we give them in salina, or do you think that instead of economic activity always coming from the top and

trickling down, that economic activity might actually be kind of thing that bubbles up from the ground right with, if everybody has a decent amount of economic security and has, might spend then economic activity will spiral upwards in a community like someone from the army originally. and when i got out, i just didn't come back home or started work so young for 27. there isn't that i'm here. back and so on. i was because i have custody of my 2 granddaughters. they are a 11 and pay in full time buying a live here and go home and start getting ready for them to get home from school. and of course, we have to have supper and if their homework get their bass and it's bad time and ready to start all over. and they've been through a lot to be as small as they are and same things and heard things and that the child shouldn't. you know,

drugs is really bad thing here in this whole small town and it has destroyed many families. it sure has shook man to the ground baby girl. 6 6 the smart a little there, whatever it was, the owner warning that works hard, that you just didn't. well, all of us live in a basement with impact. i gave up the best job ever had my life when i came back to take care of the girls in the head. it was either that or let them go into states custody. and so i gave it all up, came back out. and i need is there what you have to do? you know, so in

where you go, i don't think about where i spend my money and i would much rather do it here than to have to drive 30 or 45 minutes to for the nearest place. they will because it's this is a mash and nowadays we really would like to say the town come alive again. like i said, we just need more people that are willing to invest in the community. if we give everybody, everybody has something to spend and they can spend it in, in each other's businesses and that creates an upward spiral of economic activity that can revitalize the small town like selina. if i can make the analogy to a board game, if you think about the game monopoly, great time ago around the board, the costco,

yet another $200.00. you didn't have that $2.03 time you, pasco, and monopoly, again, would be over in about 3 terms. see that $200.00 you get for passing go when monopoly that's universal, basic income. they are no matter what. it's unconditional. you know, it's come, you're getting it, whether you're winning or you lose it. and if you're losing, it can give you a chance to give you hope that maybe just maybe you could still pull this off. in our representatives in, in legislatures, congress. they know the investments payoff, right? they know that, for example, a $1000000.00 investment in the fish hatchery, they'll hollow, pays off in multiples of that amount, every year in the tourism that it brings into this community. a lot of people actually travel here just to fish and buy them, come and do slot. i'll just to virgil say at the bar groceries here at the bar,

visualizes up a bar guess. you know, like those terms like to economy. you know, quite a bit with right, this is why our representatives fight for money in washington to bring back to our communities because they know that these investments can have multiplier effects that bring in much more than the cost of those programs go straight up. we'll revisit that off a little bit either further. got here. oh, for yours? got a girl. oh oh, did you? ah, infrastructure like roads and bridges and rail rings in business. basic income is like infrastructure spending for families. right, less families to, to pay for the infrastructure that they need, whether it's child care or whether it's housing, whether it's food closing or

a car that works for medical expenses. these are all infrastructure investments as well in the productive power of our people and our families in our communities. volley mo, came up with money and got yeah. years harder. again, imagine what she had to go through a hated to put her in a predicament. and i would never have to put her in a predicting again if i can, i can help it. but like i said, as long as it's hard to get work, it's hard to pay, you know, if you can get the money, you can't buy it scares me death. i'm a ne, a. or if i know of, i don't buy it after so long. they won't come get me away from a family in. are you working right now? it's fine and often our working rooms and it's hard on me course. notice you guys notice lions and stuff. it's hard on me cuz i retain fluid and

stuff, but i get it now. when i have to give my kids, you know, we tried to go to a doctors office, they wouldn't accept him because he don't have insurance. and then i goes all the way back to the money thing. no money. so because you don't got no money, we don't care about your health. we don't care what's going on with you. we're not going to tell you good by. they all turned him down. and he didn't feel like he guys, but when he slid down the hill over there to catch land in that heard him a got him now with a $1000.00 and then help you. i mean it would god oh mine. okay. them back at imagine what it would, dave, so my family may, my wife would live better. we would,

our years much is mounted. our valen navy romano into the paypal guy. you know, if you don't make careful mm. mm. a leash. ah ah.

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me. i mean, we have 2 choices when we design programs for the poor and for people who are struggling, we can say you need to prove to me 1st that you're worthy of my health. and then i'll help you. ready or we can treat people the way we treat our families. our children are neighbors and say, we're going to help you 1st because we have faith in you. we believe that you're going to do something good with that help. and that's what it basic income. just

a couple of different things. the pre suppositions is that there is a, a belief of inherent good that was in people. there is a common belief and understand that most people are basically good. i believe in that. ah, we say that you ought to pull yourself up by your own bootstraps. that's a really classic southern say though, some people don't have bootstraps to pull up. some people don't have hands to pull them. some people don't have feet to put them on to be a person of faith, no matter what was specifically a lot of in is or what tribe appreciate your other belief system that we prior to that there isn't, there ought to be a common written, loving our name for who they are for where they are not for who and where we think

they ought to be. that was good enough for jesus. i think it ought to be good enough for us to hey, ah, what's interesting to me talking to people about basic income, especially people that would benefit from it. is there often resistant to the idea? and often the resistance takes the form of, you know, some other people will be lazy, some other people will use it for drugs. some other people will misuse it in some way. some other people choose not to work. don't you think some of these people do . gabriel money they wouldn't turn into a dope, a couch, potatoes, work, and what we are name. but when i ask people, well, what would you do? right? no one has ever said to me like, oh, i'll sit on the couch and buy some drugs and some alcohol and be lazy. i'm looking at this way. if i'm growing a garden in my family, go out there. have a nice garden weight,

work hard on that. so you're saying i should just open the door and let the neighbor down the road. he didn't work so hard. come in or and get part of my garden house at rat for us. just kind of resist. this is almost a question of human nature. you know, how do people think about other people beyond their own family and friends? do they trust them or do they not trust them? and i think that's, that's what we kind of have to talk about. and that's where actually pilots are very useful because we have a little bit of an earlier i've actually quite a lot of empirical evidence saying, well, actually most people act like you and your friends in your family. basic and compounds have been done all over the world, and generally they do not find that people misuse the cache or stopped working when they receive it. in 2019, the myra stockton, california launched an 18 month program where they gave $500.00 a month. no strings attached to a $125.00 residents are made less than the cities annual median income. one of those recipients spent the money on surprise groceries paying bills,

you know the same things you and your family would probably spend the money on to ah ah, so we are within the last $30.00 days of the pilot project. in his 1st year with the 20 women and we work with, we have seen them, do every bank on payoff, predatory debt, go back to school, get better and coin that opportunities to like be, are more engaged parents to re establish relationships. really does have an opportunity to show up and live their full lives. the then that's the beauty in the power pairs. i used the for so many things. stay and on top of paying the bills in the household, things i was having to like take the baby clay so you know, they, you know,

you can't really just really have the babies. oh, so oh baker, allowing him to be somewhere where he can also not, not just be a watch the but also learned. ah me, i was able to go ahead and now enrolled him in daycare in the and just focus on school as on my sake a semester. he a medical bill and they all coating at the finish that semester. i made the dean's lease. there was very exciting. i got my ged, i graduated in june. i was very excited about that because ill, really, one of the things that he cannot hinder me from, you know, job basically well good job receiving a $1000.00 a month, even though it is a blessing is not enough to sustain yourself or your family. so individuals took this for what it was an opportunity to get a leg up an opportunity to put in place a plan for themselves and their families. so no one, quit working individuals went and got better career opportunities in that they

didn't look at the school and it was paid off dead individuals, labor, charbonneau, mazda loan. oh polls and they it, with the inside. he can make them with the keys in 6 months for the day for girls. when a guy mary had a when, how about. c movies and i get up there was a fine, oh my god, i have to do something to 2 years ago and rode on row in. i looked up a he boy, he bo, he crying hard in air reward. you know, there was, it was excited. well, you know, 50000. yeah, he started it, he started the that the rural, all crying. yes ma'am. actually i was on a magnet with cancer 1st out. they also bought our relationship close to because you know, my mom got home and you know, she needed a lot, or she is mer to stay in the 09 she here with the below. she'll with the

key. so now, harby and now, you know, just to return the favor just to be like, mom, we're for you. just like use your for me all, even though it is a guaranteed income pilot, there are other guaranteed income pilots currently being conducted. ours is the only one working with extremely low income families. so families who have various subsidies that they are dependent upon. and even though individuals that had a decrease in benefits, they still say that they are glad that they receive the cash because the cash allowed the opportunity to do whatever they need it. it wasn't a voucher or a subsidy dedicated to one particular b. or most importantly, where do i go? a family milan, katie boley movie. we were able to celebrate a lie when they read, you know, times before holidays,

just count by actually being able to get together as a family. and i have so many names lie and up. i'm actually going to be looking for a job, a home visas administration. i made some great people who, it's great things way let me know when i crossed the bridge to come pop to them. so i'm very excited about getting with, you know, just say people did you know, and looked an app for you to see did you're trying to do something, you know, to change your life and you situations than in your awaiting kamani. and we're happy to share with of what you think is gonna happen when the program ends in i believe that we spend a lot of time thinking about what happens when something ins. and to me that's a clear sign of not trusting individuals. if i am going to say that i trust you

enough to give you money and know that you are going to do what you and your family need. i have to say that i trust you had not there put a plan in place for when is money. and so, so i believe that individuals are going to continue to do whatever they need to do to take care of themselves. and ah, ah, in the end, people want to be productive. they want to have a better tomorrow than they have today. and if you give people a stable, durable source of income that they can count on, then most people will invest that money in ways that are best for them. as we live in a moment of change, it's going to happen. driverless cars are going to arrive and artificial intelligence is going to improve progress though, in terms of people and whether they're better or worse off. that is optional. this is a moment to leave. this is a moment for debate because the future of our families and our children is really

a stag. cashed to me, it's freedom, it, it, it's bringing it gives you options that without that you do not have a casual, asked them the freedom to actually make the decisions to determine what it is that they need for themselves. you know, right now i'm academic, let's say for some reason academia doesn't work out and i need to take a couple of years to get some training or to switch careers. or let's say i have a parent that really needs my help. i can instantly fall back on that universal basic income in that pitch. so it's something i really want for, you know, the disadvantage people in this country, but it's something i also really want for myself. and i think that's how you create really powerful political movements. i take this opportunity and see that we do not have a limited time. and so my ask for you all to night is free to take this new vision of the economy, this trickle up economy, this human centered economy,

this vision and make it yours. i don't know to have picked up on it or not, but right now things are less than ideal for a huge number of people in this country. a blur ban. let go from jobs that are never going to come back. racket medical bills are never going to be able to pay. and oh, by the way, a global freaking contagion level pandemic. hard to feel very good about a treadmill. don't you think you feel a little better if you had slightly more assurance that you and your family we are going to be okay. we really believe in the land of the free lunch act like it was slip at john, economic boot off of people's next. let's give everyone a piece of the get all american pass so that no one has to start from nothing. that's freedom at u b. i think about a

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