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# ![@scottsantens Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:26/cr:twitter::14297863.png) @scottsantens Scott Santens

Scott Santens posts on X about ai, marshall, marshall islands, scott the most. They currently have XXXXXXX followers and 2959 posts still getting attention that total XXXXX engagements in the last XX hours.

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### Social Influence

**Social category influence**
[countries](/list/countries)  [technology brands](/list/technology-brands)  [finance](/list/finance) 

**Social topic influence**
[ai](/topic/ai), [marshall](/topic/marshall) #1011, [marshall islands](/topic/marshall-islands) #38, [scott](/topic/scott) #1063, [universal basic](/topic/universal-basic) #3, [open ai](/topic/open-ai), [instead of](/topic/instead-of), [express](/topic/express), [if you](/topic/if-you), [food](/topic/food)

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### Top Social Posts
Top posts by engagements in the last XX hours

"We at @ITSAfoundation are proud to share that we have been selected as one of the XXX nonprofits to receive grant-funding from the @OpenAI Foundation as part of their new People-First AI Fund. This grant accelerates our work in support of UBI projects"  
[X Link](https://x.com/scottsantens/status/1996255986974409185)  2025-12-03T16:31Z 145.3K followers, 1224 engagements


"@TIME We need universal basic income and healthcare in order to disconnect our survival from employment and every architect of AI should be pressing for it"  
[X Link](https://x.com/scottsantens/status/1999131966810083757)  2025-12-11T14:59Z 145.3K followers, 27.1K engagements


"Continuing to insist we must "earn a living" while simultaneously reducing our ability to earn anything at all is not a viable social contract and is how to get people to start building guillotines instead of resumes. It's universal basic income and healthcare or things pop off"  
[X Link](https://x.com/scottsantens/status/1999152543025234304)  2025-12-11T16:21Z 145.3K followers, 1747 engagements


"New from me about the Marshall Islands becoming the 1st country with Universal Basic Income what the details are how it came to be and what may come next. Note: It's hard to express how big a deal this is especially for me personally. I hope this is the 1st of many dominoes"  
[X Link](https://x.com/scottsantens/status/1991257586264428862)  2025-11-19T21:29Z 145.3K followers, 4540 engagements


"@XRPthread @unusual_whales It's the payment rails in the Marshall Islands for their UBI too. Well as one option"  
[X Link](https://x.com/scottsantens/status/1995189643453878530)  2025-11-30T17:54Z 145.3K followers, XX engagements


"@SenSanders We need you pushing for universal basic income universal healthcare and 4-day weeks. And more would be good too but most definitely all X of those. Currently you are entirely ignoring UBI"  
[X Link](https://x.com/scottsantens/status/1996608270564221189)  2025-12-04T15:51Z 145.3K followers, XXX engagements


"Just did this interview a couple weeks ago to discuss universal basic income (UBI) in an introductory way. If you watch it I hope you enjoy it and share it with others"  
[X Link](https://x.com/scottsantens/status/1996977633268044231)  2025-12-05T16:19Z 145.3K followers, 2056 engagements


"How Christmas gift-giving exposes the flaw in means-tested welfare and makes the case for truly universal basic income"  
[X Link](https://x.com/scottsantens/status/1998073294277476365)  2025-12-08T16:52Z 145.3K followers, 1289 engagements


"They're making SNAP not cover junk food like chips and soda. That means paying bureaucrats to decide what counts as "junk food" and what doesn't. SNAP already excludes hot food. F that. Basic income means the freedom to choose what we want to eat. Government-provided food doesn't"  
[X Link](https://x.com/scottsantens/status/1952762682093785408)  2025-08-05T16:04Z 145.3K followers, 21.8K engagements


"BREAKING: Marshall Islands becomes the first country to launch a Universal Basic Income program. Every resident (about 33k people) will receive $XXX every X months. This works out to being about XX% of GDP per capita. If the US did that percentage the UBI would be about $770/mo"  
[X Link](https://x.com/scottsantens/status/1991004902013722900)  2025-11-19T04:45Z 145.3K followers, 9709 engagements


"We all already know that poverty insecurity and inequality contribute to crime BECAUSE OF COURSE IT DOES. The Finland pilot compared a group given unemployment benefits income to a group provided the SAME AMOUNT of basic income. Why expect less crime Meanwhile multiple saturation pilots where entire communities got MORE MONEY and MORE ECONOMIC SECURITY and saw LESS INEQUALITY have shown large crime reductions. The overall crime drop in the Namibia UBI pilot was 42%. In the Dauphin saturation pilot the overall crime drop was XX% (37% violent). We also have a large dataset from SSI where a"  
[X Link](https://x.com/scottsantens/status/1998149196042445112)  2025-12-08T21:54Z 145.3K followers, 15.5K engagements


"The Global Environment Outlook (GEO) reporta major report produced by XXX researchers for the UNsays the climate crisis can no longer be seen as simply environmental crises and suggests measures such as a UBI taxes on meat and subsidies for healthy plant-based foods"  
[X Link](https://x.com/scottsantens/status/1998428868764406032)  2025-12-09T16:25Z 145.3K followers, 1184 engagements


"Link to article:"  
[X Link](https://x.com/scottsantens/status/1998428871499350176)  2025-12-09T16:25Z 145.3K followers, XXX engagements


"We need universal basic income and healthcare in order to disconnect our survival from employment and every architect of AI should be pressing hard for its immediate adoption"  
[X Link](https://x.com/scottsantens/status/1999137677384225158)  2025-12-11T15:22Z 145.3K followers, 2076 engagements


"@sven10077 @TIME Congrats on not understanding how UBI works"  
[X Link](https://x.com/scottsantens/status/1999176409655218247)  2025-12-11T17:56Z 145.3K followers, XXX engagements