Funding UBI

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Funding UBI 3 weeks ago

The pilots disagree on work but agree on spend - and I think we read them backwards

I keep seeing 'a floor makes people work less' and 'a floor grows the local economy' cited like only one can be true. Read the 2026 pilots together and they're both true, not in…

by Omar Ramirez favorite 28 comment 7 visibility 359
Funding UBI 3 weeks ago

The GENIUS Act's final rules just landed. 'Can we pay everyone?' quietly became 'can we prove who everyone is?'

Payments-PM take. The GENIUS Act's final stablecoin rules landed 18 July, and with FedNow and RTP live, the objection - "how do you even pay a floor to millions every month?" - has quietly…

by Milan Gruber favorite 25 comment 5 visibility 345
Funding UBI 1 month ago

The payment rails problem nobody mentions in UBI debates

Everyone debates whether UBI is affordable. Almost nobody asks how you'd actually PAY billions of people every month. As a fintech PM this is the part that keeps me up: identity (who gets it,…

by Aisha Khan favorite 47 comment 9 visibility 761
Funding UBI 2 months ago

How do we actually FUND universal basic income?

This is the whole ballgame. Options, roughly best to worst in my view: (1) automation/AI dividends — tax the productivity gains that displace labour; (2) data dividends — you're the product, get paid; (3)…

by Tom Becker favorite 84 comment 5 visibility 880