u/Sauerkrautkid7

"Joe Biden’s former commerce secretary Gina Raimondo has decided that UBI in response to AI is the thing to fear most. At the Reagan National Economic Forum, she said: "I personally think it's like the end of America."

She is now heading up a newly-launched, extremely well-funded organization to make sure the country reaches for anything but a basic income in response to AI.

On the one hand, while selling themselves to investors, Big Tech says it can eventually automate almost any job a human can do. What they don't want is any responsibility for their actions. I'd expect conservatives to be against UBI, but Gina Raimondo, the person heading this up, is a Democrat.

The upside? This conversation is getting harder to ignore, and Gina Raimondo is bringing more attention to it, even if it's with dud ideas. In years of paying attention to this topic (AI/robots capable of most work), I've yet to come across a solution that isn't some form of Socialism or UBI.

So give it all you've got, Conservatives & Centrists; I doubt you'll come up with any workable alternatives, despite your $500 million funding.

Gina Raimondo Says Basic Income Would End America. Her New Billion-Dollar Org Is How She Plans to Stop It.

So true and so well written. Although I think that this helicopter is dropping water on a fire and is just for illustration.

"For decades, the logging industry has used chemical spraying—specifically glyphosate—to systematically wipe out native deciduous trees like trembling aspen, birch, and willow. In the eyes of timber corporations, these plants are just “weeds” competing with commercial conifer lumber. But in the eyes of nature, these are the exact pioneer species required to build a biosphere, respirate, and provide humidity to our environment.

When you remove these plants, they can no longer do the job nature designed them to do. Broadleaf trees act as the forest’s natural air conditioning, pumping hundreds of litres of water vapour into the air daily through transpiration. Their dense, wet canopies create a giant umbrella that shields the forest floor from direct sunlight, trapping relative humidity underneath. Wiping them out turns off the moisture, bakes the soil into a dry dirt bed, and breaks the local water cycle completely."

US DEBT OFFICIALLY HITS 40,000,000,000,000

So incredibly out of touch.

It should be done. Elon Musk deserves it. Throw Trump with him too.

Florida officer used Flock camera database 717 times to track estranged wife's vehicle, affidavit says

"Without me, Trump would have lost the election, Dems would control the House and the Republicans would be 51-49 in the Senate." Elon Musk 6/5/2025

Big Tech is spending $500 million on a political campaign against Universal Basic Income.

'Collapse of civilisation is the most likely outcome' warn scientists

This is so creepy...laughing at locals who are worried about their water supply...super villain vibes for sure.

Veteran calls out Trump and Elon Musk with anti-Trump and anti-Musk flag outside the U.S. Capitol

Bernie Sanders calls out Sergey Brin for spending over $100 million to defeat California’s billionaire tax — ‘If California passes its one-time 5% wealth tax, Brin would owe $14 billion and still be worth $270 billion’

Luigi Mangione reveals motive for CEO's killing after pleading guilty in federal case | Years of back pain and belief of a health insurance system working against him. While he was posing as a wealthy investor, leadership emailed him back within an hour, in contrast to his interactions as a patient.

Depleted strategic oil reserve nears level that raises concerns about damage to caverns, operations

AOC on Elon Musk

You can tell it's fake because he's wanted and loved in this video.

LETTER: How glyphosate spraying is fuelling B.C.'s wildfire crisis

the NBA is going to approve this sellout move? They are complicit

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SCOTUS Justice Received Millions From Oil and Gas Interests

U.S. Treasury is paying $3 billion a day in interest on national debt, says the Congressional Budget Office (CBO)

Economist Roubini forecasts AI will necessitate universal basic income or socialism