By threadsirish
I’m going to be very upfront with you, this is not a sexy topic but it is essential to understand in the light of what has been going on for the last 2.5 years.
A lot of dots will be joined up by the end.
At its most basic..
“A Universal Basic Income (UBI) is where a government pays all individuals a set salary regardless of their means. It guarantees a certain amount of money from the state without any requirement to work”
In this article I am not going go dig deep into the economic reasons for it as I am not qualified enough to discuss it from that viewpoint. I will however be looking at the countries implementing it and who are the people behind the scenes pushing for it.
In March 2022, The Irish Times called it ‘A welcome step’: Ireland’s first basic income scheme on the way where artists will get €250 a week in pilot scheme but many want to see it extended to all.
Five months later and it had increased to €325 with The Irish Times calling it a ‘seismic leap forward’ where some 2,000 artists will be guaranteed that weekly wage amount.
In Ireland it is being promoted as “money for nothing” and “no questions asked”. It is the exact same when furlough money was being paid.
When in the history of time has there ever been a “free lunch” (I’ll get to that later on in the article).
Even one of Ireland’s most well known economists who writes for the Irish Times thinks it’s a good idea. In an article in 2017 David McWilliams floated the idea on his own blog.
This was the same guy who was a huge fan of furlough money in 2020
McWilliams also was a Young Global Leader but has now graduated to becoming a member of the World Economic Forum.
Coincidentally, in his own podcast on March 2nd 2021 the name of the podcast was “Building Back Better”
Where have we come across that before ?
Just across the Irish Sea in the UK, a document was published on the UK Parliament web site in June 2022 called “Potential merits of a universal basic income”
Crazy thing just happened.
I'll be joining Tony Blair Institute's Tech Policy Fellowship to develop public policy recommendations for universal basic income using CBDC network.
Def didn't see that coming when I posted tweet below 2 mos ago.
Excited & blessed 🥰@InstituteGC https://t.co/xBIXIK7vWF
— Tascha (@TaschaLabs) September 2, 2022
Blair is a WEF member, has been financed by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation for tens of millions and has been pushing a Digital ID for years.
It his institute which will be involved in “public policy recommendations for universal basic income” We can now see how UBI jives with Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDC). The dots are all being joined up.
Apparently “Brits support universal basic income by 20-point margin according to a poll in the New Statesman” carried out in July 2022.
Wales though are a step ahead in the UBI stakes.
A not insubstantial amount.
The country who is furthest down the track with UBI is Canada. Bill S-233 is
“An Act to develop a national framework for a guaranteed livable basic income”
It says “Every person should have access to a livable basic income”
You won’t be surprised to hear that the World Economic Forum are big fans of UBI. They have been pushing it since 2016.
"We must attack poverty at its core." Is a universal basic income the answer? https://t.co/BXgstuWEoO #UBI pic.twitter.com/zBQZrYmg8k
— World Economic Forum (@wef) May 1, 2016
In a video from 2021 at the height of the pandemic, they lauded it.
Stockton gave 125 people $500 a month – with no requirement to work.
🔎 Learn more about how universal basic income is being used across the world: https://t.co/mKNkyjnkiS pic.twitter.com/2740DCWDx6
— World Economic Forum (@wef) March 12, 2021
So there you have it. UBI is the panacea for everything, happiness, time with family, medical care, meals out. What more could you ask for. And apparently the trial in Finland was a huge success according to the WEF. Except it wasn’t.
According to Business Insider
That is often the case though when trail results don’t go the way you want them to.
UBI all sounds well and good. What’s not to like about an unconditional liveable income. It is always sold as eradicating poverty as well as being a social safety net.
Allegedly people will be able to spend more, save more and invest more.
Except its never unconditional. What we should be asking is “Cui Bono” or Who stands to benefit ? Simple answer is The Elite.
In 2017 Mark Zuckerberg publicly extolled the virtues of social safety net programs that give free money to citizens regardless of employment status.
He also gave a commencement address at Harvard where he said
“We should explore ideas like universal basic income to give everyone a cushion to try new things”
Except it won’t be used for “new things”
Of course the WEF backed WEF member Zuckerberg after his student address.
Why Mark Zuckerberg is advocating universal basic income in the #US https://t.co/NGUQBhHHZO pic.twitter.com/B5pPHSILKB
— World Economic Forum (@wef) July 13, 2017
Zuckerberg isn’t the only one though. In 2021 Elon Musk said we need UBI because ‘in the future, physical work will be a choice’
Sam Altman who co-founded OpenAI (Artificial Intelligence) with Musk agrees
One industry insider told CNBC that Altman
Other very high profile entrepreneurs who have endorsed UBI are Pierre Omidyar (eBay founder), Andrew Ng, Bill Gross & Ray Kurzweil.
What Bill Gross had to say about socialism was particularly interesting and worrying, that we would have to “get used to it” with UBI.
I should have mentioned that Zuckerberg, Altman, Omidyar, Ng and Gross are all WEF members as are some of their respective companies, as is Kurzweil’s business partner of Singularity University, Peter Diamandis.
Go Figure…
A common thread seems to be appearing from all the UBI proponents. AI will eliminate jobs and people will need UBI to survive. If that sounds like the agenda being pushed by the WEF & 4th Industrial Revolution, that’s because it is. This is what they said in 2017.
“Why we should all have a basic income”
Never ones to miss an opportunity, in April 2020 the WEF published an article
“UBI is the answer to the inequalities exposed by COVID-19”
This was only a month after lockdowns started happening. Yet again they seemed to know what was going to take place 🙄
Roll on 6 months and the WEF published an article called
“Don’t fear AI. It will lead to long-term job growth”
At the same time they published a report called “The Future of Jobs”
They claimed 85 million jobs will be eliminated by 2025 but 97 million will be created.
UBI would seem to be the perfect solution from the WEF perspective. They would much rather have people sitting at home, drinking beer, watching Netflix (just like in the Covid lockdowns)
If we look back to the last 2.5 years ,small businesses and entrepreneurs have been targeted during Covid lockdowns. Many lost their jobs.
Also, with the Ukraine/Russia conflict we are now seeing energy costs going through the roof. Naturally this will be passed on to consumers so we will also see the price of food increasing.
Many people are struggling to make ends meet and put food on the table. This is where UBI comes in. In all likelihood many people will be crying out for it and will do whatever it takes to receive it.
Its the Hegelian dialectic. Problem Reaction Solution.
After the lockdowns and the plandemic hoax, business have and will continue to be destroyed through the climate/war hoax. They don’t want people earning their own money or employing other people. They want everyone reliant on a Universal Basic Income at the behest of the globalist government.
With rising energy prices and food prices about to jump to exorbitant levels what better time to bring in the UBI “free lunch” except there is no such thing as a “free lunch”.
So how would this work in reality. For the last 2 years we have seen vaccines and vaccine passports being used in order to gain access to pubs, restaurants etc. The exact same could be used for UBI.
If you don’t take your vaccine and booster then your UBI could be withheld. Your UBI will tie into your Digital ID which in turn will be connected to your Social Credit Score. Your social credit score allows you to participate in society.
Your civil liberties and rights will be tied into your social credit score. If you criticise the government you won’t receive your UBI which will be in the form of a digital currency. Your bank account could be shut down by the press of a button.
This probably all sounds very far-fetched but you don’t have to look far to see that the closing down of bank accounts & people being arrested has already happened when truckers protested in Canada.
The future is not looking rosy unless people begin to understand the bigger picture being played out.
