to sure ye, can you stop with almost them once you live at home, still foolish or in your sewage? never sneaker for girl whose name. mm hm. 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 a close change my clothes, the 1st job, go to the 2nd and just keeps hastening from. want to go home. oh, what's the book about this town? well, it is spanish. you have to repeat the mailbox. it was it was hamish, ah,

yeah, i'm, i have listen to some of that one with you. ah, you see 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 and i found her on a bank. and now here's my grand great grandmother and great grandfather. here it's peaceful. i really like it up here and hen since my family's buried here. how this feel like i need to come up here and take care of the same material.

i dislike 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 an 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 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 if it gets too high, it will 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 just 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 would call it was like a $11200.00, 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, you know, 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, i had eat you can look at someone like you can look at me right now perhaps and, and maybe think hello, 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 and community likes align left in the army originally. and when i got out, i just didn't come back home. i just started work, started going for 27. the reason that i'm here back and so on the is because i have custody of my 2 granddaughters. they are 11 and 10. it's a full time thing. i live here and go home, 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. 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 shown amanda the grand baby oh. 6 the smart a also wanna warn that works hard, that you just don't. well, all of us live in a basement with a bag. i gave up the best job i ever had my life. when i came back to that girl girl in the head, it was either that or let them going to 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 like about where i spend my money and i would much rather do it here. and i have to drive 30 or 45 minutes to for the nearest place. it will because this is the fashion nowadays. we really would like to save 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 money. yeah, everybody has something to spend in. 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 selena. i can make the analogy to a board game. if you think about the game monopoly, great time ago around the board, the costco. yeah,

another $200.00. you didn't have that $2.03 time you, pasco, and monopoly, again, would be over in about 3 turns. see that $200.00 you get for passing go when monopoly that's universal, basic income. they are no matter what. it's on conditional, you know, it's come, you're getting it, whether you're when and or you lose in and if you're losing, it can give you a chance and she gave you hope it may be just, maybe you could still pull this off in our representatives in, in legislatures and congress, they know that investments payoff, right? they know that, for example, $1000000.00 investment in the fish hatchery deal 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 or just to fears will say i have to buy groceries here at the bar

vision. last example 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. joe started out with the rubric of the doc is a little bit either further, but here lawford, who's got a girl. oh oh, did you get infrastructure like roads and bridges and rail rings in business? oh, basic income is like infrastructure spending for families. right. less families to, 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 or 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 out with money and got yeah. it is hard on. i imagine what she had to go through. i hated to put her in that predicament, and i would never have to put her in a predictor again if i can, i can help it. but like i said, as long as it's hard to get work, it's harder paid. you know, if you got the money again i, it scares me death. i'm a ne, a. or if i know of, i don't buy it after so long. they're gonna come get entire me away from a family and are you working right now? it's fine of an hour working roads 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 and i, when i have to get my kids, you know, we try 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 things, no money. so because you don't got no money, we don't care about channels. we don't care what's going on with you. we're not going to tell you good by maybe days all turn came down and he didn't show it to you guys. but when he slid down the hill over there to to catch land in that heard him a got him. how would a $1000.00 and then help you? i mean, it would god almighty. i'll get him back at magic. what it would do for my family. may my wife would live better?

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ah, 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, 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 presupposition is that there is a, a belief of inherent good that was in people. there's 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 people been, is or, 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 they're 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 somebody to paypal it? bew gabriel money they wouldn't turn into well dope a couch, potatoes, work on what we are now. but when i asked people what, 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 by. look at this way. if i'm growing a garden in my family, what there have

a nice garden. wait, work hard on that. so you're saying that she just opened the door and let the neighbor down the road. it didn't work so hard. come in or, and get part of my garden house at rat for us. this kind of resistance is almost a question of human nature. you know what, 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 misused 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 aren't to like be or more engaged parents to re establish relationships really does have an opportunity to show up and live their full lives the then that is the beauty and power pairs. oh, i use the for so maybe things stay and on top of paying the bills in the household, things i was having to like take the baby to play. so you know me, you know,

you can't really just really have the babies. oh so oh, baker, allow him to be somewhere where he can also not, not just be in watch the but also learned. ah me, i was able to go ahead and enroll him in daycare in the and just focus on school as my sake a semester. he a medical bill and they all coating as i finished that semester. i made the dean's list, there was a very exciting, i gamma g b 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 the they didn't look at the school and it was paid off dead individuals, labor, charbonneau, mazda, poles of valentine bay. it was a very decided he can make them with the keys in 6 months from the bay rose. when a gar mary had a when i was. c nervous and i gave up, there was a fine, oh my god, i have to do something to tears, a golden road, a gone ro in. i looked up a he, boy, he bo, he cry on an air roar. you know, there was, it was excited. well, you know, 50000. yeah. she started the she started the that the rural, all cry. yes ma'am. actually i was on a magnet with cancer parks and so 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. and when she hit with the bill, she'll with the key. so now her being down, 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 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? family, milan, gayety, bow lane movie. we were able to celebrate a lab when they,

we, you know, times before holidays and just count by actually being able to get together as a family. and i have so many things lined up. i'm actually going to be looking for a job, a home, these will to ministration. i made some great people, great, great things, way let me know when cost a breach to come talk to them. so i'm very excited about a, you know, just say people, you know, and looking out for you just to see did you're trying to do something, you know, to change your life. a new situation then in your awaiting kamani. and we're happy to help with that. what you think is gonna happen when the program and 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 lee. 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. oh, we have to take this opportunity and see that we do not have a limited time. and so my ask for you all to night is for you 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 bay and let go from jobs that are never going to come back rack medical bills are never going to be able to pay, you know, by the way, a global freakin, contagion level, pandemic. hard to feel very good about they treadmill. don't you think you'd 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 lipp 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 with

a a wrong when all just a disdain becomes the attitude and engagement. it was the trail when so many find themselves worlds apart, we choose to look for common ground. ah ah. oh, a

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