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"Last I checked, welfare does the opposite of this. It helps people merely subsist, not strive for greatness."

Do you have an alternative for UBI? If so please provide you theory and factual data to support that will help people "strive for greatness"?

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Rather than trying to turn the 99 percent into charity cases and sheeple, I would like to try to foster the next step in the evolution of work so that it is lighter and more flexible and so forth. This is a compendium of some of my previous writings on an alternative to UBI, which boils down to seeing this as the Second Industrial Revolution:

http://micheleincalifornia.blogspot.com/p/ir2.html

I am not looking to help people strive for greatness. That is Sam Altman's goal.

But what I do try to do is preserve freedom and agency for the poorest of the poor. My first attempt to do that is here:

http://sandiegohomelesssurvivalguide.blogspot.com/

My current project for trying to help the most vulnerable people around me take control of their lives is here:

http://independentdigitalworkers.blogspot.com/

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