[GUEST ACCESS MODE: Data is scrambled or limited to provide examples. Make requests using your API key to unlock full data. Check https://lunarcrush.ai/auth for authentication information.] [@scottsantens](/creator/twitter/scottsantens) "@TonyKatsabanis A deficit-neutral UBI does not increase the money supply. You're arguing against a UBI that increases the money supply by the amount of UBI and hardly anyone suggests that approach"  [@scottsantens](/creator/x/scottsantens) on [X](/post/tweet/1948533027853713528) 2025-07-24 23:57:30 UTC 145K followers, XX engagements ""About XX% of job-seekers have been searching for work for at least XX to XX months and last year around XX% of unemployed people said they didnt land a single job interview in 2024." Gen Z is being impacted by AI and needs to start pushing for UBI"  [@scottsantens](/creator/x/scottsantens) on [X](/post/tweet/1947271014238265499) 2025-07-21 12:22:42 UTC 145K followers, 29.1K engagements "I feel like how a climate scientist must have felt decades ago watching something happen they'd warned about and being surrounded by people saying it's not happening. AI is displacing workers. It's reducing wages. It's growing inequality. We need to tax wealth + distribute UBI"  [@scottsantens](/creator/x/scottsantens) on [X](/post/tweet/1946930529284092411) 2025-07-20 13:49:45 UTC 144.9K followers, 7511 engagements "If you bring the cost of a drug down 1000% and the current monthly cost of it is $XXX then you're paying its users $1000 a month. So we can all get paid to "buy" drugs we don't have to actually use Okay. Congrats on going about universal basic income in the weirdest way"  [@scottsantens](/creator/x/scottsantens) on [X](/post/tweet/1948014709896089806) 2025-07-23 13:37:53 UTC 145K followers, 3994 engagements ""We conclude from the meta-analysis of these XX experiments that across all X categories UBI has the potential to make improvements in outcomes most consistently with poverty alleviation in developing countries. In the case of advanced economies UBI improves overall stability""  [@scottsantens](/creator/x/scottsantens) on [X](/post/tweet/1948427576730411170) 2025-07-24 16:58:28 UTC 145K followers, 1760 engagements "Consider how many neurodivergent people would fail a test for neurodivergence and how what is good for one person is not what another needs. Because UBI is universal cash it would reach everyone and it would be in a form that everyone could use for anything. UBI: so U can B U"  [@scottsantens](/creator/x/scottsantens) on [X](/post/tweet/1946578903771775404) 2025-07-19 14:32:31 UTC 145K followers, 5482 engagements "@DKeesy @CopperRose227 Social Security isn't a savings account. Workers pay taxes and seniors receive payments. Plenty of seniors get more in payments than they ever paid in taxes. If it didn't exist I bet you'd be saying the same about Social Security and how wrong taxes are"  [@scottsantens](/creator/x/scottsantens) on [X](/post/tweet/1948428577004728800) 2025-07-24 17:02:27 UTC 145K followers, XX engagements "I'd say the most common response to universal basic income is some variant of "it will just increase prices" In response I frequently find myself explaining how it's not that simple and there are many variables involved. So here's my summary of XX of the variables to consider"  [@scottsantens](/creator/x/scottsantens) on [X](/post/tweet/1948886299085340881) 2025-07-25 23:21:16 UTC 145K followers, 2775 engagements "We plugged some jobs into the AI job risk calculator that was part of a recent NSF report on the impact of AI on workers over the next X years. Basically flip a coin if you work at a call center. Universal basic income can't wait any longer. We must make sure everyone benefits"  [@scottsantens](/creator/x/scottsantens) on [X](/post/tweet/1946936958229569729) 2025-07-20 14:15:17 UTC 145K followers, 4621 engagements "@muscomusic @AndrewYang The New Zero Argument is a ridiculous argument that is even based on a poor understanding of UBI's boost after taxes"  [@scottsantens](/creator/x/scottsantens) on [X](/post/tweet/1947414746837471409) 2025-07-21 21:53:51 UTC 144.9K followers, XXX engagements "@CopperRose227 @DKeesy So is Social Security"  [@scottsantens](/creator/x/scottsantens) on [X](/post/tweet/1948417827720822786) 2025-07-24 16:19:44 UTC 145K followers, XXX engagements "@CopperRose227 @DKeesy Remember this day on the day you receive your first Social Security payment or if it's replaced by UBI your first UBI payment. Enjoy and you're welcome"  [@scottsantens](/creator/x/scottsantens) on [X](/post/tweet/1948419674040861042) 2025-07-24 16:27:04 UTC 145K followers, XX engagements ""A thought experiment for you - if everyone received $1000 a month in Universal Basic Income would there be more partying Sources say yes." There are many reasons to support universal basic income and yes more partying is one of them. UBI: Fight for your right to party"  [@scottsantens](/creator/x/scottsantens) on [X](/post/tweet/1947317302883430831) 2025-07-21 15:26:39 UTC 145K followers, 12.7K engagements "Thomas Paine a founding father proposed a universal cash payment for everyone turning XX back in the 18th century. Around that same time Thomas Spence was the first to propose what we now know as universal basic income. UBI isn't new; it's just overdue"  [@scottsantens](/creator/x/scottsantens) on [X](/post/tweet/1811384449977745746) 2024-07-11 12:58:01 UTC 145K followers, 23.4K engagements "@PAFreedomCaucus Doesn't look weird to me. Dolly Parton did it and it worked great"  [@scottsantens](/creator/x/scottsantens) on [X](/post/tweet/1948394225575272668) 2025-07-24 14:45:57 UTC 145K followers, XX engagements "Universal basic income has two different impacts on wages. The power UBI provides to say NO means that jobs people don't want will need to pay more to find people willing to do them. The freedom UBI provides to say YES means that jobs people want can be subsidized like teachers"  [@scottsantens](/creator/x/scottsantens) on [X](/post/tweet/1946567862648246432) 2025-07-19 13:48:38 UTC 145K followers, 24K engagements "@sama I'd feel better about it if we already had universal basic income in place"  [@scottsantens](/creator/x/scottsantens) on [X](/post/tweet/1946579116964151687) 2025-07-19 14:33:21 UTC 145K followers, 3649 engagements "The Great Depression was a crisis of mass poverty. The authoritarian moment we're in now is a decades-long crisis of mass insecurity and extreme inequality. The only way out of it is nothing less than a NEW New Deal that needs to include UBI healthcare for all and a wealth tax"  [@scottsantens](/creator/x/scottsantens) on [X](/post/tweet/1949109832520212962) 2025-07-26 14:09:31 UTC 145K followers, 5998 engagements "Universal Basic Income is a horrible idea according to anyone whose understanding of it is at the peak of Mount Stupid"  [@scottsantens](/creator/x/scottsantens) on [X](/post/tweet/1948391649517687076) 2025-07-24 14:35:43 UTC 145K followers, 196.9K engagements "I had Trump accidentally happening upon UBI by regularly rebating tariff revenue on my bingo card but I did not have Trump doing it because of playing a starring role in the Epstein files and wanting to distract from the cover-up on my bingo card"  [@scottsantens](/creator/x/scottsantens) on [X](/post/tweet/1948876293585461559) 2025-07-25 22:41:31 UTC 145K followers, 1509 engagements "@noahkaufmanmd Yes. It's a universal non-zero floor. All income from work would raise your total income unlike welfare that disappear with work effectively punishing work. Taxes would still exist so those in the top 10%-20% would pay more in taxes than they get in UBI"  [@scottsantens](/creator/x/scottsantens) on [X](/post/tweet/1947680711323856976) 2025-07-22 15:30:42 UTC 144.9K followers, XX engagements "@AmericaRus2024 There are lots of studies to look at. If you just want to cherry pick one of them okay and I assume it's this one which if you read the study does not say what you think it does based on whatever opinion piece you may have read"  [@scottsantens](/creator/x/scottsantens) on [X](/post/tweet/1947396562147283015) 2025-07-21 20:41:35 UTC 145K followers, XXX engagements
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"@TonyKatsabanis A deficit-neutral UBI does not increase the money supply. You're arguing against a UBI that increases the money supply by the amount of UBI and hardly anyone suggests that approach"
@scottsantens on X 2025-07-24 23:57:30 UTC 145K followers, XX engagements
""About XX% of job-seekers have been searching for work for at least XX to XX months and last year around XX% of unemployed people said they didnt land a single job interview in 2024." Gen Z is being impacted by AI and needs to start pushing for UBI" @scottsantens on X 2025-07-21 12:22:42 UTC 145K followers, 29.1K engagements
"I feel like how a climate scientist must have felt decades ago watching something happen they'd warned about and being surrounded by people saying it's not happening. AI is displacing workers. It's reducing wages. It's growing inequality. We need to tax wealth + distribute UBI" @scottsantens on X 2025-07-20 13:49:45 UTC 144.9K followers, 7511 engagements
"If you bring the cost of a drug down 1000% and the current monthly cost of it is $XXX then you're paying its users $1000 a month. So we can all get paid to "buy" drugs we don't have to actually use Okay. Congrats on going about universal basic income in the weirdest way" @scottsantens on X 2025-07-23 13:37:53 UTC 145K followers, 3994 engagements
""We conclude from the meta-analysis of these XX experiments that across all X categories UBI has the potential to make improvements in outcomes most consistently with poverty alleviation in developing countries. In the case of advanced economies UBI improves overall stability"" @scottsantens on X 2025-07-24 16:58:28 UTC 145K followers, 1760 engagements
"Consider how many neurodivergent people would fail a test for neurodivergence and how what is good for one person is not what another needs. Because UBI is universal cash it would reach everyone and it would be in a form that everyone could use for anything. UBI: so U can B U" @scottsantens on X 2025-07-19 14:32:31 UTC 145K followers, 5482 engagements
"@DKeesy @CopperRose227 Social Security isn't a savings account. Workers pay taxes and seniors receive payments. Plenty of seniors get more in payments than they ever paid in taxes. If it didn't exist I bet you'd be saying the same about Social Security and how wrong taxes are" @scottsantens on X 2025-07-24 17:02:27 UTC 145K followers, XX engagements
"I'd say the most common response to universal basic income is some variant of "it will just increase prices" In response I frequently find myself explaining how it's not that simple and there are many variables involved. So here's my summary of XX of the variables to consider" @scottsantens on X 2025-07-25 23:21:16 UTC 145K followers, 2775 engagements
"We plugged some jobs into the AI job risk calculator that was part of a recent NSF report on the impact of AI on workers over the next X years. Basically flip a coin if you work at a call center. Universal basic income can't wait any longer. We must make sure everyone benefits" @scottsantens on X 2025-07-20 14:15:17 UTC 145K followers, 4621 engagements
"@muscomusic @AndrewYang The New Zero Argument is a ridiculous argument that is even based on a poor understanding of UBI's boost after taxes" @scottsantens on X 2025-07-21 21:53:51 UTC 144.9K followers, XXX engagements
"@CopperRose227 @DKeesy So is Social Security" @scottsantens on X 2025-07-24 16:19:44 UTC 145K followers, XXX engagements
"@CopperRose227 @DKeesy Remember this day on the day you receive your first Social Security payment or if it's replaced by UBI your first UBI payment. Enjoy and you're welcome" @scottsantens on X 2025-07-24 16:27:04 UTC 145K followers, XX engagements
""A thought experiment for you - if everyone received $1000 a month in Universal Basic Income would there be more partying Sources say yes." There are many reasons to support universal basic income and yes more partying is one of them. UBI: Fight for your right to party" @scottsantens on X 2025-07-21 15:26:39 UTC 145K followers, 12.7K engagements
"Thomas Paine a founding father proposed a universal cash payment for everyone turning XX back in the 18th century. Around that same time Thomas Spence was the first to propose what we now know as universal basic income. UBI isn't new; it's just overdue" @scottsantens on X 2024-07-11 12:58:01 UTC 145K followers, 23.4K engagements
"@PAFreedomCaucus Doesn't look weird to me. Dolly Parton did it and it worked great" @scottsantens on X 2025-07-24 14:45:57 UTC 145K followers, XX engagements
"Universal basic income has two different impacts on wages. The power UBI provides to say NO means that jobs people don't want will need to pay more to find people willing to do them. The freedom UBI provides to say YES means that jobs people want can be subsidized like teachers" @scottsantens on X 2025-07-19 13:48:38 UTC 145K followers, 24K engagements
"@sama I'd feel better about it if we already had universal basic income in place" @scottsantens on X 2025-07-19 14:33:21 UTC 145K followers, 3649 engagements
"The Great Depression was a crisis of mass poverty. The authoritarian moment we're in now is a decades-long crisis of mass insecurity and extreme inequality. The only way out of it is nothing less than a NEW New Deal that needs to include UBI healthcare for all and a wealth tax" @scottsantens on X 2025-07-26 14:09:31 UTC 145K followers, 5998 engagements
"Universal Basic Income is a horrible idea according to anyone whose understanding of it is at the peak of Mount Stupid" @scottsantens on X 2025-07-24 14:35:43 UTC 145K followers, 196.9K engagements
"I had Trump accidentally happening upon UBI by regularly rebating tariff revenue on my bingo card but I did not have Trump doing it because of playing a starring role in the Epstein files and wanting to distract from the cover-up on my bingo card" @scottsantens on X 2025-07-25 22:41:31 UTC 145K followers, 1509 engagements
"@noahkaufmanmd Yes. It's a universal non-zero floor. All income from work would raise your total income unlike welfare that disappear with work effectively punishing work. Taxes would still exist so those in the top 10%-20% would pay more in taxes than they get in UBI" @scottsantens on X 2025-07-22 15:30:42 UTC 144.9K followers, XX engagements
"@AmericaRus2024 There are lots of studies to look at. If you just want to cherry pick one of them okay and I assume it's this one which if you read the study does not say what you think it does based on whatever opinion piece you may have read" @scottsantens on X 2025-07-21 20:41:35 UTC 145K followers, XXX engagements