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Scott Santens

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Scott Santens

@scottsantens

Founder and CEO of @ITSAfoundation; unconditional universal basic income (UBI) researcher and educator; sign the AI Pledge for Humanity aipledgeforhumanity.org

Washington, DC

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Joined April 2008

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Scott Santens
@scottsantens
Sep 14, 2018
I've been researching the idea of Unconditional Basic Income since 2013. Here's a list of findings I've compiled from various UBI experiments, unconditional cash transfer studies, and cash dividend research. The data speaks for itself. Data: reddit.com/r/BasicIncome/… #basicincome
Scott Santens
@scottsantens
Aug 22, 2024
"More concerning, the brains of people who suffered from dementia contained significantly more plastic than the brains of healthy people." Uh oh.
Yale Environment 360
@YaleE360
Aug 22, 2024
Scientists have found microplastics in human brain tissue. Read more @YaleE360: bit.ly/3STWLv9
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The article in which this quote is from is factually incorrect. The thesis does not make a direct link between increased microplastics in the brain and dementia; it urges other studies to try and correlate a link between the two. This can be found in the conclusion paragraph. ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P…
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Scott Santens
@scottsantens
Dec 14, 2017
This isn't only about #NetNeutrality. This is about democracy. When 80% of Americans don't want something, and the government does it anyway, that is a direct violation of the will of the people. It erodes faith in government as an institution worth engaging in or even defending.
Scott Santens
@scottsantens
Feb 6, 2023
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Steve Milloy
@JunkScience
Feb 4, 2023
It's official: No global warming for 8 years and 5 months, per NASA satellite data. That's no warming despite ~475 billion tons of CO2 emissions. CO2 warming is the biggest scientific hoax of all time. wattsupwiththat.com/2023/02/03/the…
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Scott Santens
@scottsantens
Jul 26, 2024
You gotta love how Walz gets universalism. He's just like, look, let's just get food into kids and to hell with rich and poor.
Heartland Signal
@HeartlandSignal
Aug 16, 2023
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (DFL) explains why he rejected Republican lawmakers' attempts to means-test school meals for K-12 students: "The haves and the have-nots in the school lunchroom is not a necessary thing. Just feed our children."
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Scott Santens
@scottsantens
Apr 19, 2024
We already have 1,000 would-be Mozarts who instead of learning music and honing their skills are doing shit jobs for shit wages. They're spending their time just surviving instead of blessing the rest of us with music we'd love. What these would-be Mozarts need is basic income.
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Scott Santens
@scottsantens
Apr 12, 2023
UBI critics: If we give people money without conditions, people will stop working. UBI pilot: Turns out the UBI group worked more than the control group. UBI critics: Well of course giving people more money works. But it costs too much. UBI pilot: Turns out the money spent on
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Scott Santens
@scottsantens
Aug 19, 2024
This is it. This is the logic. This is what everyone needs to understand. Federal spending to reduce poverty is an investment with an ROI that is better than 1:1, especially child poverty, which is a 10x investment. Poverty prevention pays for itself. This is how to get to UBI.
James Medlock
@jdcmedlock
Aug 19, 2024
Excellent answer on funding CTC. There’s zero benefit to getting sucked into a “how are you gonna pay for it” game
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Scott Santens
@scottsantens
Mar 19, 2024
See my pinned tweet thread.
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Scott Santens
@scottsantens
Mar 18, 2024
Consider also that a Universal Basic Income of $1300/mo would be equivalent to a $7.50/hr increase in the min wage for those working 40-hr weeks and $15/hr increase for those working 20-hr weeks. Unlike min wage, UBI would also increase strike power and reach unpaid care workers.
Working Families Party 🐺
@WorkingFamilies
Mar 16, 2024
"If the minimum wage had been raised in pace with productivity growth, like it was until the 1980s, the minimum wage today would be over $24 an hour."
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Scott Santens
@scottsantens
Jul 5, 2021
Iceland recently completed a 4-yr trial of a 4-day week with no reduction of pay with 1% of its population taking part. The result? Productivity increased. Well-being increased. It was such a success their unions are already negotiating for it nationwide.
Four-day work week trial in Iceland hailed an 'overwhelming success' | LBC
From lbc.co.uk
Scott Santens
@scottsantens
Mar 20, 2025
Quite the answer here by Elon's daughter Vivian. No notes. 💯
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Scott Santens
@scottsantens
Sep 13, 2019
In today's edition of the #YangGang is the most incredibly creative group of supporters of any candidate ever, here is @AndrewYang's unofficial anime opening credits featuring anime @joerogan and @elonmusk among others. youtube.com/watch?v=K1jUJ-… #ISupportYang #Yang2020
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Scott Santens
@scottsantens
Apr 9, 2025
The results from Germany's 3-year UBI experiment are out! 122 people got €1200/mo for 3 years. All were age 21-40 and employed with €1100-€2600/mo pay. They were happier, healthier, saved more, gave more, enjoyed more social time and DID NOT WORK LESS than the control group.
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