Category: Basic Income

Iris Scanning Worldcoin Idea Fuels Objections From Privacy Advocates — Snowden Says ‘Don’t Catalog Eyeballs’ – Bitcoin News

Iris Scanning Worldcoin Idea Fuels Objections From Privacy Advocates — Snowden Says ‘Don’t Catalog Eyeballs’ – Bitcoin News

Iris Scanning Worldcoin Idea Fuels Objections From Privacy Advocates — Snowden Says ‘Don’t Catalog Eyeballs’ – Bitcoin News 1 During the last few weeks, a project called Worldcoin has been the subject of numerous headlines and speculation. Worldcoin launched on October 21 and aims to be a universal basic income (UBI) crypto asset that gives free tokens to accounts that are verified with a biometric eye scan. The project has privacy advocates reeling and whistleblower Edward Snowden slammed the project’s creators and said “don’t catalogue eyeballs.” Worldcoin Turns Heads in the Crypto World as It Wants to Scan Your […]

Major changes to farmers’ direct payments from 2023

Major changes to farmers’ direct payments from 2023

Expand Eco schemes such as reducing fertiliser spreading can add to farmers’ income The Government made a number of key announcements last week regarding the future of farm payments under the CAP reform due to come into force from 2023.

Under the new reforms, many aspects of farmers’ EU payments will change radically, with some farmers gaining significant sums and, equally, others in line for income cuts.

A detailed notice sent to stakeholders in the wake of the announcements and seen by the Farming Independent provides some further insight into how the new schemes and payments will work.Here, we outline the […]

How to Add In-Plan Guaranteed Income: Wealth@wor(k) 2021

How to Add In-Plan Guaranteed Income: Wealth@wor(k) 2021

Keynote speaker Glenn Dial speaks at Wealth@wor(k) on Monday The passage of the SECURE Act in 2019 removed the last barriers facing plan sponsors’ adoption of “in plan” guaranteed income features.

With the SECURE Act providing safe harbor to include annuity products within 401k plans, the floodgates are opening and advisors are scrambling to gauge plan sponsor and participant interest in adding guaranteed income opt ions—and figuring out the best way to do so.

This timely topic was the subject of the opening keynote presentation at the Wealth@wor(k) conference in Nashville, Tenn., on Monday morning.“This is going to change things. We […]

Chicago poised to create one of the nation’s largest ‘guaranteed basic income’ programs

Basic income programs are rapidly spreading across the country, while critics raise concerns about record job openings.

The Chicago City Council is poised to vote this week on what would be one of the nation’s largest basic income programs, giving 5,000 low-income households $500 per month each using federal funding from the covid-19 stimulus package.

Mayor Lori Lightfoot has proposed the $31.5 million program as part of her 2022 budget, which the city council is scheduled to consider on Wednesday. The one-year pilot, funded by the nearly $2 billion Chicago received from the Biden administration’s American Rescue Plan, is supported […]

Sports, arts fans urged to get the jab

Sports, arts fans urged to get the jab

Deputy President David Mabuza has urged sports fans and lovers of the arts to get the COVID-19 jab so that they can return to fill sports stadiums and events in the arts as spectators and audiences.

Mabuza was speaking during the KwaZulu Natal leg of the “Return to Play: It’s in Your Hands” vaccination social mobilisation campaign held at the Moses Mabhida Stadium in Durban.

The city-to-city mobilisation campaign has visited different provinces, in a bid to harness the influence and appeal of sporting and creative stars to encourage South Africans to vaccinate. “We are convinced that the more of us […]

Basic social grants must be linked to expanded Public Works Programme in the country

Basic social grants must be linked to expanded Public Works Programme in the country

Dr Thami Mazwai is the chairman of Mtiya Dynamics, which specialises in enterprise and supplier development. Photo: Supplied The calls for a basic income grant (BIG) for the unemployed are going to feature in our national dialogue until we deal with the gogga known as poverty, unemployment, and inequality (PUI).

For the record, more than 2.2 million lost their jobs and the total unemployed is over 12 million. In the small business sector close to 47 percent formal entities gasp for oxygen and some have had to close.

According to StatsSA, more than 30 million South Africans live on less than […]

Money for Nothin: Universal Basic Income

Money for Nothin: Universal Basic Income

W ith a fourth stimulus check coming for some this month, and the stave of the eviction moratorium for a few more months, this brings back a discussion of Universal Basic Income, that was put on the table amid the COVID-19 Pandemic

The idea is to provide everyone with a minimum living wage, whether they are employed or otherwise.

A vision of how this could work:Every citizen would get an income from the government. Period. You don’t have to work, you just have to "Be" No real need to compete for jobs that offer the best income, now you could look […]

CMV: Universal Basic Income has been proven to fail

First of all, why is worker shortages a failure? The entire point is that UBI can free us from dependence on shit jobs, which it seems to be doing, without crashing the economy, which seems to be doing fine. Employers are complaining because they can’t keep exploiting people as much as they want to, but the economy is still running perfectly well and there’s few negative side effects for anyone but the capitalists.

Second, why do you think people are doing nothing? I’ve been on unemployment for a few months and I’ve lost 20 pounds, built an extension on my […]

California Town Launches Guaranteed Income For Black, Native American Residents

California Town Launches Guaranteed Income For Black, Native American Residents

An experiment previously found that beneficiaries’ employment rate increased by 12% while reducing their level of anxiety and depression.

The Californian city of Oakland will soon launch a pilot guaranteed income program for poor families targeting its black and Native American residents, authorities said.

As part of this program inspired by experiences of “Universal income” Already carried out in the United States, some 600 families in Oakland will be able to receive a monthly check of 500 dollars for at least 18 months, without any conditions, specified the mayor of the city, Libby Schaaf. This guaranteed basic income will be reserved […]

If you allow them to scan your eyes, they will give you free cryptocurrency.

If you allow them to scan your eyes, they will give you free cryptocurrency.

A cryptocurrency startup in Silicon Valley is making headlines for a rather generous proposition: they’ll give you free crypto if you let them scan your eyes.

The startup, called Worldcoin, is the brainchild of tech millionaire Sam Altman. According to NotebookCheck.net, Altman’s plan is to scan the eyes of a billion people until next year.

After you get your eyes scanned, you’ll get your payment via their own cryptocurrency, called Worldcoin.According to the company’s official website, they’re planning Worldcoin to be, in their own words, a: “Collectively owned global currency that will be distributed fairly to as many people as possible.”What […]