How you can try to fix this world, realistically.

Maybe you can start it first per tribe, then expand globally.

Goal: humans should not have to trade in order to survive in this society. Since this creates a tsunami of problems for people and the rest of this planet. (source)

Plan:

Basic needs trade-free.

Make the most basic needs services trade-free. Healthcare, transportation, shelter, basic food, access to Internet (information and communication). You can do that through taxes, through volunteers, through all sort of means. Many tribes already provide some of these as trade-free, like in Europe a lot of the healthcare systems are like that. Not difficult!

Basic Income.

Since this world still relies on trades (money), and people may have different sort of needs and definitely wants, give everyone a basic income (say 1.000 dollars a month) with no strings attached. You can do it again through taxes, via the removal of so many institutions and resources dedicated to track people and check if they are eligible for benefits, and all of the paperwork nonsense that has been created around this. No more "benefits", no more "pensions". Forget about labeling people as employed or unemployed in regards to who should be helped.

That is it!

Now you will have a bunch of humans who KNOW they are taken care of. They KNOW that if they get sick they should only worry about that health problem and not a financial problem. They KNOW that they wont starve or end up on the street. They know they are SAFE.

On top of this, with the money you give them monthly, they can have some power and focus on doing some useful things in this society. At least some will, if not many.

This can grow up over time into a saner society of humans who can refuse to work for bullshit companies, or do any bullshit jobs. A world in which humans have the time to decide what to focus on, who to "vote" for, stay informed and properly inform others.

A world where scientists or journalists should not worry about their livelihood. So they can do their "jobs" properly.

We deserve and need this world. Else there is no intelligent species on this planet.

My friend's poster at yesterday's demo in S.F.

We should be demanding, organizing, and fighting for the abolition of billionaires, seizing their wealth, using it to provide free public services for everyone, a universal basic income, guaranteed housing, food, healthcare, not for a return to the shitty, pre-Trump status quo.

A point lost on many Aussies is that when our Govt gives away natural resources to transnational companies, they’re stealing in cahoots from us & generations to come to enrich already wealthy & powerful people, most of whom are foreigners. Who are the welfare queens? #auspol #ausvotes2025 #UBI

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The #futureofwork is #UBI #NoWork

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Artificial Intelligence, the Collapse of Consumer Society, and Oligarchy https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:iza:izadps:dp17682&r=&r=ain
"The pace of progress in artificial intelligence has resurrected worries about the end of work. Some people call for an egalitarian society based on universal basic income, while others think regulation should curb the use of #AI.
… While, in partial equilibrium, they would benefit from AI as replacement of the knowledge workers they need to operate their business, in general equilibrium massive use of AI might be self defeating because it would lead to a collapse of the middle class of #skilledWorkers and therefore of the market base for mass produced goods.
… If influence depends on the number of agents exerting influence ("one person, one vote"), AI will prevail and be supplemented with #UBI, provided fiscal capacity is large enough to fund for such UBI. If fiscal capacity does not allow for enough #redistribution, then the #oligarchy may want to curb AI so as to maintain a high enough demand for skilled workers, so as to preserve the market base for mass produced goods.
… If influence is chiefly driven by monetary contributions ("one dollar, one vote"), AI is likely to prevail and no UBI will be implemented, because producers of necessities, who do not value the existence of a large middle class, will outbid producers of more sophisticated goods in the competition to obtain one’s most preferred outcome.… "
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The #WealthGap isn’t just growing - it’s exploding. Wages stagnate while profits soar.

A few billionaires control more wealth than all the other people combined - and with that, billionaires control politics and who is in government!

#UBI doesn’t “punish success” - it ensures #everyone has a chance to succeed. Because no one should have to beg for basic survival in the richest era in history.