Steem is capitalism: The more money you have, the more money you make.
But Steem is also a fine tool for several different projects. One of them is @steembasicincome
If you don't know what a (unconditional) basic income is, I suggest you start by reading the Wikipedia article ;)
This projects aims to share the Steem wealth with everyone.
For that goal, people can get shares on the project, by getting sponsored by a someone else.
I am offering YOU the chance to get your personal first share. There is just one thing you have to do for it. Answer this question in the comments:
What would you do / change in your life if you had a basic income that takes care of your basic needs?
edit: time is up, no more shares!
If you answer this question, I will sponsor you your very first share in the steembasicincome pool. You don't need to do more, except posting from time to time to get the upvote. Oh, and maybe upvote the @steembasicincome posts to increase the SP ;)
Time is up! No more shares!
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Thank you for sponsoring me in the steembasic income, it is highly appreciated and will go a long way in achieving my goals.
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I would start studying again; i've graduated electrical eng; then master in management, but I would study economics and then finance 🙄
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I will travel more, see the magnificent world
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If I didn’t have to work as my basic income was sorted I would either work for a cancer support charity with patients dealing with cancer and their family or I would foster children who have had a shit start to their life. I would take myself away from the stress of the daily hamster wheel we all call work which would result in a better life with the other half (I’d hope, lol). Or maybe I’m just a miserable *****.
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I would buy the the things I need to go and live on the road fulltime nomad and see places and blog about them and use a drone to make videos with and share them on platforms like this and meet new people and make new friends.
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I would start a life without working for big concern and start creating a lot more of my FIMO ArtWorks, doing more Nature and UV Photography to share here on steemit! It would be able to me to study and follow my feelings... I think a universal basic income could make the world a better place! Do you know about Manna - Universal Basic Income by Blockchain?
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I am already registered there ;)
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If i have a income that takes care of my basic needs;
I will be able to use 50 percent of my extra income to fund my charity project for the children in orphanages.
I will use the remaining to invest in my organic farm in order to contribute to eliminating toxic crops .
Lastly i will be able to quit my weekend job and spend it full time in researching quality posts that may benefit steemians.
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I would spend more time with my wife & son and just try to make them happy & smiling every day!
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Get some land go off the grid. Study and incorporate Permaculture. Learn new methods from living off the land
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I would use my basic income to support volunteers, volunteer myself, sorry people in our countries, help invalid people, etc.
Meanwhile I would just continue my normal job (controller), preferably for 4 days a week.
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I would get a big block of land, start a food forest, grow an abundance of food and give way what I didnt need to the hungry people!! :-)
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i will stop working for the man
i will give my time to help people
and learn gardening for my and give some food
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Absolutely creative live will be started to me! Well, It actually almost started for me, when I've got time to learn a lot about online earnings))
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I would paint works of art every day :)
It is funny you say that STEEM is capitalism, because when you think about it, the STEEM blockchain is actually more like a communist oligarchy. Most of the anarcho capitalists will probably strongly disagree but... look at how the STEEM blockchain works... lets compare it to a government...
The STEEM blockchain creates money and the money is distributed to everyone, but not equally, the people with the most money decide who gets most of the new money created.
This is just like a communist government that is run by a wealthy oligarchy who decide how much everyone gets paid, because in a communist government everyone is basically an employee of the government since the government owns everything... similar to how everyone who has an account on the STEEM blockchain is basically an employee of the STEEM blockchain...
If the STEEM blockchain was capitalist the money for new posts would be coming from existing users and not from the STEEM blockchain...
So all the pro capitalist and anti socialist users on here are unknowingly commnists ;) this of course is not an exact comparison but you get the idea... ;)
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But that is the definition of capitalism ;)
Nonono! The blockchain is work done. (Hell, that is how it started, right? PoW)
Capitalism means the exchange of labor of workers for the labor of capital - machines.
A lot of the commenters here definitely are- Just look how many wrote "help children" etc.
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hehe, when it comes to the distribution of capital, yes that is mostly how it works.
I am talking about just the pure definition of capitalism which is private ownership. And the STEEM blockchain is not privately owned, it belongs to no one and it belongs to everyone who participates in it (steemit.com is privately owned but it only exists because of the STEEM Blockchain). That aligns more with a communist economic model than a capitalist model. The reason I call it a communist oligarchy is because in a pure communist model everyone would be paid a mostly fair/equal amount for participating. This is not how the STEEM blockchain works (currently, this could of course be changed), who gets and how much of the money they get from the STEEM blockchain is determined by the wealthiest members (the oligarchy).
If the STEEM blockchain was privately owned and there was one owner or a small group of owners who decided everything, than yes I would agree with you that it is capitalist...
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I will quit my job and will start to do better things like studying for a self sustained housing system so people here in my country(specially in deep provinces) will no longer rely on water and electricity services. Becoz those services are really abusive here.
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I Would Buy Some Land off The Grid And Survive On My Own Terms.. me And My Family Are Sick of Working For Big Government..
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If I didn't have to work to meet my own needs, I would like to study linguistics and use that knowledge to help good causes the world over. Being able to better myself and use that to see the world and help others? That sounds both fun and rewarding to me.
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I have thought about this before and honestly I would like to spend a few days a week using my experience in construction and maintenance to build and maintain homes, schools, and shelters. I think and hope that many people would be like minded and use a UBI to make the world a better place. My increased free time would be spent trying to find new places to go and things to experience.
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If I had basic income, I would buy a cassette to mp3 converter.
He's never been one to spend time on a computer, smartphone or any electronic gadgets.
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I would keep my job and invest more money to get to be an influential person and leave my trace in the world. I'd like to leave a better world to my grand children than the one my ancesters left to me.
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Thanks for doing this!
I like to think that if I had basic necessities already taken care of via basic income, that I would be more aggressive in volunteering or supporting efforts to cut pollution and waste. I think the notion of a basic income is where everyone tries to help each other; I like to think that it means building a stronger community, and one greatly neglected part of the modern community is a healthy, clean environment. Maybe somehow helping out with the 10 Billion Oysters project in Chesapeake Bay, reforestation or park maintenance, maybe other activities that both get me out the house and helping heal nature's wounds.
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If I had a basic income I would make sure that my partner and I would live on our own land, with lots of space for all the abandoned and abused dogs we could help. I would also buy myself my dream camera so I could make more money out of that to help even more dogs. We would try to live as much self sufficient as we could. And we would try to give as much abandoned and abused dogs a forever home as we could.
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I would have more time to create art, and more means to help others, specially my animal shelter friends!
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I'd spend more time with my family and friends, and enjoy the simple things in life every day...
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I would reduce the number of days I work from 5 to 3 and would spend those 2 extra days to do two things:
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Oh man, what a wonderful thing to consider. I would do so much.
For starters, I would spend MUCH more time with my wife and five kids. They are all under the age of 6, and these years are just so important. It makes me sad to have to be away at all, not to mention the 40-50 hour minimum workweek in the US. So, that would be my primary. Spending time loving on them, exploring, teaching, bonding, etc.
Secondly, I would pursue my passion for outreach with people who, like myself, struggle with self-harm and self-injuring behaviors. I actually just launched a second Steemit account @nssi-advocate to hopefully do that when I can. I'm not a licensed counselor or anything, but I think I have a valuable story to add that may help others find healing in their own lives. I would love to be able to dive into that without having to worry about money.
Third, I would hone my hobbies! I have been a self-taught woodworker for the past 6 years and have loved learning new skills and making interesting projects. But, with the five kids and full-time job, I rarely get time to create. Between that and my dream to build a custom bicycle, I would love to have more room on the margins to explore my self-care interests.
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Live on my own land. Stop spending my time working for someone else's wealth. Spend time cultivating a natural forest, meadow, pond, animal habitat, streams. Grow more of my own foods. Exercise outside through exploring near and far. Make beautiful things from natural resources I can harvest. Share in my abundance. Invite others to cooperate with me.
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I currently teach at a college to pay my bills, and although it’s a great job and I love being in the classroom and working directly with students, I am very limited in what other projects I can initiate in the job. So if I had my basic needs covered by basic income I would do more volunteer work in my own town. I currently run a 100% volunteer run youth track and field club with my wife and about 25 other parents, and I would love to do more of that kind of work, help out with the school PTA, teach free classes at the public library, and spend more time hiking, camping and canoeing with my wife and kids!
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I would devote more time for personal hobbies of mine that I get great enjoyment from.
I'd also spend more time making content on Steemit to become even more self-sufficient.
I think a UBI is a great idea and this project has intrigued me but I've yet to take the plunge. I actually wrote an article the other week about UBI and something called a Swift Token that aims to implement it's own UBI idea in the form of crypto.
Feel free to check it out here if you like and let me know what you think.
Thanks for the potential sponsor btw! :)
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