ah, flemming, up until literally last 2 years of my life might have been like one emergency situation away from complete financial catastrophe. basically, i just, i live in paycheck to paycheck, not having any extra money for any thing at all. and you know, things happen. my name is tre crowder. i got attention on the internet for these videos i made featuring a character called the liberal read. try crowd little read. try crowded long time, no scheme. i want to talk to you about something. it's deeply personal to me. pales lot people ask me what to think about bio lab matter. well, put simply i think that they do for a long time when i was a young adult, i didn't have health insurance. you know, until i, i wouldn't do like in a mural sports and stuff like that at college. i sincerely because i was like, wow, you know, when i blow money out or something, i'm screwed. and those just those types of things just knowing that you're on the

precipice. so flag, ruin all the time. yeah, it's extremely stressful. and i know for a fact just statistically that a lot of people in this country are live in that day to day. you know all the time, only 41 percent of us adults have enough savings to cover a $1000.00 emergency. we have record numbers of americans who are on the verge of having their cars repossess more than a 137000000 americans are facing financial hardship because of medical debt. my son couldn't afford the life sitting the saving medication. he needed, the worsening on a planet picture is simply staggering. the pandemic is also causing many to go hungry. my bills are going to back up, but i'm going to be in trouble here. hopefully, student loan debt in the united states has doubled 40 percent of americans. 65 and older are in default. that's always gonna be there for me. personally, i've heard of out the idea of

a universal basic income and was pretty immediately of the opinion. well, there you go, that's at least a solution because we're gonna have to do something. the idea is this. every citizen in this country would receive a $1000.00 a month every month, no strings attached that might seem far fetched to you, but it could be a potential improvement over some of our existing welfare programs that i grew up in only wrong. i'm grateful for them, but i kind of look back on those programs and food stamps and all that the same way that i look back on the final season, a game of thrones. i'm still glad that it exists, but it could have and should have been. so much better way deserved better. you be, i is actually not a new idea. in america, you can trace it back to one of our founding fathers, thomas pain. you know, the guy who 1st convince people that american independence might be a good idea. he's not the only one. martin luther king junior was for you. we all want to van cuz it seems to me is a guaranteed annual income or guaranteed minimum income for old

people. and for all families around $969.00, richard nixon even proposed an actual plan to congress that us place of war under the income of every family, with children in america. and without those demeaning souls filing a bronze for human bigness either. so blight the lives a wealth of welfare children the day one state in america actually already has a form of basic income alaska. each year they take a portion of the states oil revenue and distribute it to every man, woman and child. real example for the world emulate. the alliance comes over be extremely proud of it because it's a whole new concept of people loaning resources and government having to take their money back from the people in federal government. given the money and partially moved out. and socialistic program is exactly the opposite of what some people term, the dividend to be social is, is capitalistic to like screen. okay,

so they've got oil up in alaska, but how do we pay for basic income in the rest of the country? taxes? yeah, i said it the dreaded t word, but yes, actually it's time to incorporate welfare get big tag to pay its fair share and use tax mechanisms to create the strongest safety net the world has ever seen. and all these rich people can rest easy knowing the extra money they give back isn't going to some big sold us government bureaucracy. it's going directly to the people social justice. get with them. i'll tell we were from a small town a lot of times, especially in the south, it can end up in this like sort of a small town contest thing where it's like now my home town smaller than yours. and i feel like that's an argument that i typically win because it's really, really small. i remember saladas this like quaint

little southern town with you know, some charm to it and the football team was good. the tailed squire was, you know, just little mama, businesses a store for us, that type of thing. and everything was fine. but at the beating heart of the tales economy was this big clothing factory where most people worked. and that's for my mom worked that's were outlawed as many of the work and my neighbor caller to come out there for a long time. and then am i tiffs my dad, he was, he was the head engineer and my mom, she actually so ever body and saw that you top table. he's worked oshkosh, oshkosh, that nascar that. and if you heard oshkosh, my gosh, or whatever. yeah. for decades, the center of the towns economy was large, cloud and factory in, in the mid ninety's after now have to it made like a stoner at midnight and went south of the border. and we never covered

there's been no real industry that's come in there in the 20 plus years since and as far as i'm aware, there's not anything major in that regard on the horizon. so selina, in my opinion is like a textbook example of the top most that would benefit a lot from a basic income and that also from a sensible you'd think to people there would be all for it with. but i don't know that that is true. there it is saying the crime is there osh kosh, my gosh, factory, yes, my gosh, you did. how long do you know how long it was here? the fact he was here and when he clothes, people had worked there, 40 years, go ahead. after here i was in business up the street and there was a little wind blowing through town that may be

a factory was going to be close. and i mean people stopped coming in to the restaurant and spend in 4 bucks on, you know, a sub or something like that. if it was $345.00, people stop spinning it. you know, you've got the cafe may mon pod daddy are running the video store in the car lot. and that by the time i graduate high school, it's literally all gone. it was st. and not all, not only is that all gone but like i, you know, all the stuff with mama are getting all strung out yonah jail, i, my life changed tremendously for the worse just like everybody else is around here . when that happened. well, in my get affected like literally everything and pray, learning the ripple linux and other than that see yeah, i know, you know, that was, i mean yeah, i wasn't just the hits just kept on come and ah,

i'm saying, i think there will be a lot of people that will say, well, no, i mean i don't all hands yeah. i'm not looking for and i just want to why bring, bring the job back. that's what you know, you know, politicians what like, i mean, can you easily envision a lot of people responding to it that way? oh yeah. i can see that. right. well, i think that's gonna be a major that i would love to also see how they respond. if you could check that even was had a day, right? to see what they did with the bra. presumably they basta, or you know, finally get like the fan belt fixed on their car or whatever that i've been put in for forever. but i'm saying they're going to go to some mechanic around here to do that. you want to main, like theoretically a big portion of it would get like pop, strike back into just sure the general economy because there has been an old things that they need, that they haven't been bought in a long time because i had no money to do the idea of giving unconditional cash might not sit well with everybody. i know that's a shocker. how does this out

a paycheck every month? even if you do not have a job, i think is a continuation towards the road of socialism and america. well, there should be a 2nd chance, not a way of life. we're going to take from you over here to give to you over here, because that's what we're going to do. the universal basic income when you're taxing people and redistributing well without marriage, that encourages lazy. what forced warren buffett to work hard workforce this guy to work hard, not handling them a check. you cannot appreciate something fundamentally that you get for free. in in no, you, my distress is providing a guaranteed income to low income african american women and their families. the magnolia, my distress, it's doing this in the form of a $1000.00

a month for 12 months. i am so excited if like my 2nd shell in the matter of months, i had to give them 2018 in magnolia mothers. trust is one of them. it is taking a population that worked so hard to be seen on a daily basis and really saying we see, we honor your stories, we believe in you and we trust that you know what it is that you need for your family. now there will be all tremendous break for gay is so support my kids are tell me pay bills and hell know to straight from month to month with where my mom will in of the obvious relationship. my day it was very, very for my mom so when i got my relationship, marlexia was abusive and i was like,

i would never ever put my key in jeopardy of or in a relationship. and i mean is not working. or you have to break the cycle somewhere . so little bit more to jason and i broke the like does a $1000.00 a month? no strings attached? if you use a hero, i will like there mays. i don't know, i just won't go crazy. with that one night. well ma'am a baby. so here we actually fell asleep on the couch and oh, seamless was right here. how else heard the door? josh? yes. i had to 1st in they came to my mom was square my baby as he from allies and i knew fight at the moment. i'm nasty here forever. i will get back in school. pay awesome day 17. to raise my credit score so that i can get the home

that out long for me and my load with a story with wow, we are, which are ours. we make, you know, let you to really care about me. if you care about to play. i wish somebody could just tell me why they're all treat, lynching, beating poverty. why supremacy is for disgusting campbell. the people in

mississippi voted on a flyer and 65 percent of the people voted to keep the car and fly. our purpose is to, to fan the good name of the confederates held because of these monuments that you see everywhere are not, can there not monuments to the can better go there, monuments to the, to the soldiers, to the battery. you know, if we're going to be offended by everything, every negative part of our history, we have to get rid of everything. all of the individuals that we work with living communities where they receive housing vouchers, we really are trying to figure out the impact of benefits when cash um is infused into these situations where individuals are highly subsidized. but then also we're trying to get a better understanding of how the women themselves are able to show up. are they less stress? are they more engaged in their local community?

are there more engaged in our kids school? are they more engaged in their own self care? are they able to now look towards career and not just a job because they held their freedom blue more easily and shirt cameo freedom was getting up a fire? getting all the middle one dressed there were 80, take him to the bus. stop police by 545. getting them off the school were actually come back of the house. oh, this one she's getting ready or worse. we're right. no lightens 655. actually having to rush back home, get the baby ready to take your so my mom's house is entering the. busy terrible tooth when you get back cold and i'm along, sir, come, let me see, let me see, can i fi d rady myself in also being clay as

a like 720 some light rushing. oh, did you? oh. so i think the lack of sleep is rare challenge and i won't so least get to a point in my life where i'm actually working a good paying job. i wanna job this is, is going to make, is me. i want to be able to save it, you know, take trib, so do all the things too. so in a reason that i am a fan of guaranteed income because it is this idea that everybody is deserve it just by virtue of your being here, you deserve a life where you and your family can drive you deserve a life where you can actually dream you deserve a life where you can actually see those dreams is going to help us really, really like really, really

a lot. i'm very silent about. these are not really hearing too many like rules or just tell you or you, you have to spend it on or how, how much you have to say, let me say. and i said i was on time. if these letters for gays, you have to put this, this is for j as in terms of asian. well, he see that doctor, i see you only little tears. you can't say food, 1000 pale, i be alike. he can't take food stamps and get your medicine. so is, is a big difference being able to just go and do everything i need to go with is gonna be exciting. most of america believes that our systems work and that we have welfare and we have these safety nets and they actually are doing what they're supposed to be doing. and that's not true. that's actually a myth. most folks don't quite understand how complicated these various

systems are in the complication of these systems, but they're not why they're just ineffective. for example, if you're on panic, your case worker could say, okay, you have 2 weeks to get a job, but no supported provided and getting that job. no child care is provided where you're looking for their job. if you do not have a job within 2 weeks, you are thankful in most cases that means that you will lose your net for 90 days. that what that means is that for 90 days you have no way of ensuring that church household. your kids have take a moment less this thinking and that's also why a lot of individuals choose not to fool with tana, because who can run the risk of not being able to feed their kids. oh,

okay. and instead of recognizing that is the policies that are wrong were blaming the families, were saying, oh family, someone at o. r o family, someone or you know, have to take the drug test that were required in the tape because they are on drugs . now is none of that, if you went out and had conversations, you could actually really get to what the problems are with these policies that are being implemented. i think our current safety assistant is now working. and so i believe that a guaranteed income is an opportunity for us to rewrite a system everybody deserves to be able to take care of their child. everybody deserves to be able to have safe and adequate housing. everyone deserves to be able to so depend on a meal, a society that cannot take care of its children, society, they cannot take care of its elders. a society that leaves people in the cold without options,

cannot call his self civilized we're trying to elevate and push towards a dignity economy and economy, which focuses on the inherent dignity of every person and show that that actually operates in the best interest of all citizens we have to equip mothers to be able to care for their children. and the more we're able to do that, the more whole society we're raising, the more whole circumstances and conditions where lifting up so that we can make certain that we create these dignity economies. we should say, ah, in america, we do have a welfare system in place to help people who are struggling financially, but it's a conditional system. you have to prove to the government that you truly need help . and if that doesn't immediately sound unfair to you, consider that different people's different financial woes can be very wide ranging hard to quantify, typically time sensitive and overall, just generally speaking,

pretty damn complicated to sort out. luckily for them, every american knows that our government ex sales at resolving complex and nuanced issues in an efficient and judicious manner, right? as job. now it's in fact is the opposite in our system as well and truly broken. but let's imagine for a 2nd, the you are deemed worthy of receiving government support. the minute you get a job and your income increases, that support will decrease, sank about the incentives of that i can make it so that doesn't make financial sense to take a job if it's a low paying job. if you are a single parent, you need child care for when you're working. you can be successful in your job. search and end up worse off than you were before when you were on government assistance alone. that's called a poverty trap. be universal, basic income, on the other hand, is an unconditional system. you don't have to prove that you deserve anything. you don't have to constantly jump through bureaucratic hopes. you don't have to choose

between working a job and actually being able to afford your bills. because under u. b i, every one will always be better off with a job you be. i can be an economic floor on which we all can stay at one to let you know we're having a town hall discussion and cook counselor. i'm handing out flyers for event. we're having tomorrow at the courthouse. my name is alma lucky and i'm an associate professor of practice and political science at n y u shanghai. asa, it's going to be right across the street at the courthouse, a pan. we're going to talk about ways of bringing economic vitality to towns, likes lawana. i think it would be great if people really understood what the basic income is. i think a be great at this was something that they started to talk to candidates about as well. so that we can bring broader attention to the idea of basic income and get the voices of ordinary people rather than just academics like me,

a room for the simplest away like explain a basic income is that it's like social security for the rest of us. a basic income would be a monthly payment that would go to everyone. i think if we get these details right, basic income can eliminate poverty. can increase economic security for working folks and can give a boost to local economies like the economy of selena. does it sound good to you? does it sound too good to be true? yeah. mm mm. for more sure. faith

hope in our what i go by. exactly what other than okay, here's one. i'm on your wedding. hurry to put money on your electric and then you know, you're wondering how you're going to get that back and i have no clue. i don't get that back, but i would rather my bills we paid entering me on my finger as i say it, i don't, i don't want to be rich by any means. i don't want them handed to me. i just want to be able to pay money for my kids. that's all i want to be on. last tuesday, my husband went charged for court over his oldest daughter, not our 3, but his oldest oldest one, asia that judge. look, i just got a job. i'll start paying, however much shortly to pay money. that wasn't good enough that he's be in the

180 days or until his family can come up to 700. 7 rose a lot of money to me. $10.00 in a lot of money to. so with him gone, what do you communicate for christmas? what do you mean? i still like the harder i drive for my kids to be normal. preferred or they go back in one of the feminist arguments for basic income is that for a very long time, care work as been devalued. we've devalued care work as a society. and if we think about what really matters to include society to a society where people liable to flourish, then of course, realize that care should be put much more on the center of our conception of

a good to say, i'm busy kingdom by being unconditional. enables people to make the choice to spend more time caring for others. why will we touch the wealthy for basic income? is because we hate the wealthy or we we resent them for their success. no, it's because they're the ones we're benefiting from the economy. as it is right now, they're the ones we're doing well, move them, i will not take all their money will let them keep. and after that, they are incentivized to keep doing the work that they do. we want to reward entrepreneurs, we want to reward people who take business risks. we want to reward people who create jobs for other americans. but we take some of their,

some of the gains that they're making and we share it with everybody. and that not only has the effect of reducing economic insecurity and eliminating poverty, it also has the effect of putting resources in the hands of the people who know best, what to do for their own communities. look forward to talking to you all. that technology should work for people. a robot must obey the orders given by human beings, except where such order is a conflict with the 1st law show your identification. we should be very careful about artificial intelligence. and the point obviously is to great trust, rather than fear with like to take on various jobs with artificial intelligence. real, somebody with a

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a to ukraine coordination with you and me to, to help ukrainians defend themselves and fight back about 150000000 euros. well, i make a week, almost, even i told me, bombs are hearing all the same nato and the application and the one that people will die just for make money. the one that i have i have done yes. why you must, you got thrown in there. if you go through my, she thought, i mean is what i'm actually study. she's covering me only debutante that i want for them in as well. the more saw me my show pezora tool or a for opa exec leila lesson opinion. polls show that over 70 percent of italians are against military support for ukraine. landed in confront with the date for that last or the flap. don't a lot of us yet, levi and more on

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