Unconditional basic income is not solely an income boost equivalent to a simple raise. It's a structural change that removes barriers to other structural changes. It's a foundational floor for everything else we need to do. It's power. It's time. It's fuel for essential activism.

Consider the potential of a #GeneralStrike. How many will participate in that by withholding their labor so long as they require selling their labor to live? Now consider UBI exists. Now how many will withhold their labor until society's demands are met?

The answer is MANY MORE.

UBI is about power to negotiate as individuals that many on the left don't appreciate as power because many on the right like it too, and it's about freedom from control many on the right don't appreciate as freedom, because many on the left like it too.

Unconditionality is key.

UBI is still about money too, but too many people don't think through what that means. What does money buy? It buys time. It buys grassroots funding. It buys access to the courts and it buys your way out of debtors' jail. It makes volunteering affordable. It supports communities.

An unconditional right to life is not the ultimate goal of a just society.

It is the prerequisite to a just society.

UBI is the construction of a foundation to support our humanity, and free our imaginations and our potentials to achieve all that otherwise remains unachievable.