Shits getting real for a lot of people getting laid off, insane expectations, and let’s not mention the increasing prices. I wrote this thinking, we can make this happen and it’s only not a thing because of egotistical control freaks that run shit. So, here it is, read and discuss.
1. The Rat Race vs. Regenerative Living
The current economic model forces most people into a “rat race”. Rather than seeking seld improvement, self expression, or connection through authentic means we are put into a state of:
– Survival over self-expression
– Exhaustion over exploration
– Profit over presence
In this system, time is money, rest is laziness, and creativity is only valued if it’s monetizable. Ive noticed I feel judged and have judged others for taking rest. That’s insanity. Universal Basic Income starts to address this by guaranteeing that basic needs—shelter, food, safety—are not dependent on one’s ability to sell their time. Often in a market with the priorities of lining the pockets of those who are already rich.
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2. Freedom to Follow Passion
When people are no longer burdened by survival anxiety, a vast energetic and cognitive shift occurs:
The prefrontal cortex (seat of long-term planning and creativity) becomes more active as the brain exits fight-or-flight mode. You don’t have to worry about paying the bills or food. You get to work on that project!
Passions rise and call: music, gardening, inventing, teaching, healing, building community, exploring consciousness. The excitement leads the people to their dreams rather than situation limiting our realities for the benefit of a few.
UBI becomes a baseline of dignity—a soil from which authentic motivation can flourish.
—
3. Reclaiming Education
Our priority is fitting kids into a box, while rich kids get taugh on controlling the economy and “system”. We’ve taken away books, defunded programs, devalued educators, and create unhealthy learning environments for children.
With UBI, students aren’t forced to learn just for economic survival. Instead, they can study what they love without pressure to monetize it immediately. As an artist, if i knew out of school id have a baseline income…wow. Most cant grasp that boost. I’m not trying to make 5000 pieces to sell anymore. Im trying to make one really amazing piece at a time to speak my truth. Teachers also become mentors and co-explorers rather than disciplinarians.
We prioritize education as invaluable to children creating strong foundation in STEM, fine, and martial arts. Creating discipline of mind, body, and spirit.
—
4. Art as Sacred Expression
Art is a core human need, not a luxury. Under capitalism, many artists:
– Abandon their craft to pay bills
– Sacrifice the message of their work to satisfy clients
– Work under patronage systems that dilute authenticity
UBI removes the financial muzzle from the artist’s soul. Artists can create from truth, not market trends. Societies are enriched with beauty, reflection, satire, and emotional healing. Art becomes communal, participatory, and sacred—restoring the temple of creativity in the public square.
We don’t value the most important part of life, art. Expression. Every moment we exist is our art. We’ve monetized it into clicks, tickets, tax write offs, and status. Art is power. Art is freedom. We unshackle ourselves through breaking thr art world free.
—
5. Reweaving with Nature
Capitalism exploits the Earth. UBI allows us to live with mother earth again. Not as a full solution, but a step forward. When people are not enslaved to urban industry or wage labor they can spend more time gardening, permaculturing, wildcrafting, walking forests
During the shutdowns we saw many people move back into nature. They saw the importance of the outdoors and their time. How much our lives relied on these jobs that feed these billionaires or corrupt systems. We reclaim our time to invest into these important things. We reclaim resources from the rich, who have corrupted the system to take resources from us. We can start creating better outdoor spaces, healthier forests, rehabilitating animal habitats, and including these environments into our communities and personal properties. Weaving us back into the system rather than the cancer we’ve become.
—
6. Igniting Collective Creativity
Creativity is not just personal—it’s cultural software. UBI helps enables the emergence of:
– Open-source innovation without profit motives
– Collaborative art spaces, maker collectives, and conscious festivals (more, better, etc)
– Interdisciplinary fusion between scientists, dancers, elders, and children (remove the stigma)
A mycelial network of local creators supported by universal security. Our creativity sparks others. What we do, what we create, how we do it, everything.
In short, a renaissance. We are the new renaissance. Technologically, Techinically, Creativity, and Literally. We are the new renaissance.
—
7. UBI and the Healing of the Nervous System
UBI is not just economic—it’s biological:
Chronic stress drops, reducing cortisol and inflammation. If you’re not worried about how youll eat tonight, you can relax a lot easier. If you know you can make rent, your life is much more tranquil. There is a severe disconnect between the comfortable and the uncomfortable and a lot of people are waking up to the reality and lot of us have been living in for so long.
This gives us time to heal and process. We spend so much time surviving but we need to thrive. We get more time for meditation, breathwork, movement, and reflection becomes normalized.
Children grow up seeing adults who are alive, not just surviving. This creates a generational ripple of attuned, self-aware, and emotionally grounded humans. We are the seeds to a new beautiful future.
—
8. From Market Identity to Soul Identity
Currently, many identify themselves by their job:
> “I’m a lawyer. A barista. A software engineer.”
With UBI, people may start to say (let’s remember this isn’t a cure all but a step forward):
> “I tend trees. I help people listen. I make things with my hands. I like building, flowing, and growing.”
UBI begins to open the door for people to rediscover who they are beyond what they do for money. This is liberating the soul from capitalism’s toxic grasp.
—–
Final Thought
UBI doesn’t just redistribute wealth.
It redistributes possibility.
When no one is forced to sell their time to survive, the spark of human genius—the sacred fire of purpose, connection, and expression—can burn again.
We begin to remember that we are not machines. We are creators, healers, poets, dancers, and dreamers. UBI gives us time to become fully human again.
—-
Talking Points Against UBI Criticisms
1. “People will stop working.”
Reality check: Most people want to contribute meaningfully. UBI gives them the freedom to choose how. Those who don’t have often been spoiled or traumatized. This is where the healing and education comes in.
Pilot programs (e.g., in Finland, Canada, Stockton, CA) show that employment doesn’t drop—in fact, some people start businesses, return to school, or care for family.
This is one of the main keys we learn in meditation. People think when desire to have more is gone that we have nothing left. In fact, it frees us completely to enjoy the moment. In acceptance of who and where we are, we uncage our passions, creativity, and intuition. Our minds fill with the moment and we transcend. Our experience through our vibration becomes more attuned with our highest selves. This coincides with education and social programs. Integrating society into a world of acceptance and love rather than judgement and fear.
UBI doesn’t kill work—it kills forced labor.
—
2. “It’s too expensive.”
It’s a matter of priorities, not affordability. The U.S. spends $877 billion annually on military, and billions on corporate subsidies and bank bailouts. I don’t want to hear a damn thing when we spent millions on a parade for nothing. When we spend billions to kill children and families overseas. Please.
UBI can replace or simplify many costly, inefficient welfare programs. With exceptions for those needing additional support which should be properly compensated, which at this time rarely are.
We’ve seen our government gut itself seeking proper waste of money when we know right where it is. Trim the fat off corporate contracts, military audits, and infinite other methods. A proper taxation of the rich would easily solve many problems.
The question isn’t ‘can we afford it?’—it’s ‘can we afford not to evolve?’
—
3. “UBI will cause inflation.”
Inflation occurs when demand outpaces supply—not simply from more money in people’s hands. If UBI is well-designed, it stimulates productivity in underused sectors like local farms, small business, repair trades, and artisanal goods.
Most UBI models aim to redistribute existing capital, not print excess fiat currency. We saw an economic upturn with more disposable income.
In pilot studies (e.g., Kenya, Alaska), no significant inflation occurred—especially when goods/services are locally sourced. UBI helps to grow both demand and capacity—it empowers creation, not just consumption.
—
4. “It will make people lazy.”
Being forced into soul-crushing work to survive is not virtue—it’s trauma.
Studies show UBI reduces burnout and improves mental health, allowing people to pursue meaningful education, passion projects, or caregiving. Most people you interact with feel like NPCs rather than main characters. Its time we gave everyone a chance to shine.
Laziness is often a symptom of burnout, not character. When people are supported, their drive to grow returns naturally. I remember when I got passionate about keeping fish and learned all about the science of it. Eventually, learning calling the local government in Salisbury and the school because the tap water was coming out with a higher level of Nitrate than reported. A marine biologists at the school confirmed the results and spoke with the mayor. All from a hobby and letting passion lead the way.
UBI doesn’t enable laziness—it helps liberates potential.
—
5. “It’s socialist/communist.”
UBI isn’t about state control—it’s about individual sovereignty. The state already controls us, are you paying attention?
Unlike socialism, UBI doesn’t dictate jobs, redistribute ownership, or centralize control.
UBI is universal and non-coercive—more libertarian than authoritarian. Think of it as dividends on shared infrastructure and automation. It isn’t left or right—it’s forward.”
—
6. “It’ll be abused by addicts or people who don’t deserve it.”
All social systems can be abused, but that’s not a reason to deny dignity to all. It’s more efficient and just to provide universal access than to build massive bureaucracies that judge, exclude, and surveil.
Addiction is a health issue, and UBI offers stability, which improves recovery outcomes more than poverty and shame ever could. Creating social programs to help addicts rather than shame into into a doom spiral is more effective. People don’t heal in cages, they heal from love.
—
7. “Some people don’t need it—why give it to the rich?”
Universality prevents bureaucratic gatekeeping and stigma.
Wealthy recipients can be taxed proportionally or more at year’s end—give to all, reclaim from those with excess. It’s about justice and dignity for all, not picking winners and losers. Universal means no one gets left behind. That remidns me of lilo and stitch. Ohana. Ohana means family. Family means no one gets left behind. We are all one giant family.
—
8. “We need jobs, not handouts.”
UBI is not a handout—it’s economic floor, not a ceiling. A foundation that has been removed from us through the creation of this system we live in today.
It allows risk-taking and entrepreneurship, which creates new jobs. How much more time to blow glass, teaching martial arts, and sink into my passions do you think there would be? Yea. Many jobs today are meaningless, extractive, or even harmful. UBI lets us rethink what work is truly worth doing. Itdoesn’t kill jobs, it evolves them out of this soul crusher into a soul booster.
—
9. “What about people with disabilities or special needs?”
UBI would complement, not replace, targeted supports for vulnerable populations. Most people with special needs I’ve met are severely under funded.
A universal floor simplifies eligibility, while additional layers can support those with specific medical or caregiving needs. It does not excuse lowering other support but helps lift an already suffering individual.
—
10. “It won’t work in complex economies.”
UBI has been tested globally, from Namibia to Alaska to Finland, with consistently positive results: mental health, entrepreneurship, education, and trust all improve.
It can be piloted locally, adjusted regionally, and scaled gradually.
In the AI/automation era, complex economies require bold decisions, not outdated systems built for inequality. We’ve seen through the veil, now we must act. This is not utopian—it’s overdue.
—
UBI isn’t about giving people money.
It’s about giving them time, dignity, and the freedom to choose how to contribute to a world in transformation.
We need to live in a free world that reflects our hearts. Now, give me money! 
No, but really.Universal Basic Income: A Catalyst for Freedom, Creativity, and Connection
1. The Rat Race vs. Regenerative Living
The current economic model forces most people into a “rat race”. Rather than seeking seld improvement, self expression, or connection through authentic means we are put into a state of:
– Survival over self-expression
– Exhaustion over exploration
– Profit over presence
In this system, time is money, rest is laziness, and creativity is only valued if it’s monetizable. Ive noticed I feel judged and have judged others for taking rest. That’s insanity. Universal Basic Income starts to address this by guaranteeing that basic needs—shelter, food, safety—are not dependent on one’s ability to sell their time. Often in a market with the priorities of lining the pockets of those who are already rich.
—
2. Freedom to Follow Passion
When people are no longer burdened by survival anxiety, a vast energetic and cognitive shift occurs:
The prefrontal cortex (seat of long-term planning and creativity) becomes more active as the brain exits fight-or-flight mode. You don’t have to worry about paying the bills or food. You get to work on that project!
Passions rise and call: music, gardening, inventing, teaching, healing, building community, exploring consciousness. The excitement leads the people to their dreams rather than situation limiting our realities for the benefit of a few.
UBI becomes a baseline of dignity—a soil from which authentic motivation can flourish.
—
3. Reclaiming Education
Our priority is fitting kids into a box, while rich kids get taugh on controlling the economy and “system”. We’ve taken away books, defunded programs, devalued educators, and create unhealthy learning environments for children.
With UBI, students aren’t forced to learn just for economic survival. Instead, they can study what they love without pressure to monetize it immediately. As an artist, if i knew out of school id have a baseline income…wow. Most cant grasp that boost. I’m not trying to make 5000 pieces to sell anymore. Im trying to make one really amazing piece at a time to speak my truth. Teachers also become mentors and co-explorers rather than disciplinarians.
We prioritize education as invaluable to children creating strong foundation in STEM, fine, and martial arts. Creating discipline of mind, body, and spirit.
—
4. Art as Sacred Expression
Art is a core human need, not a luxury. Under capitalism, many artists:
– Abandon their craft to pay bills
– Sacrifice the message of their work to satisfy clients
– Work under patronage systems that dilute authenticity
UBI removes the financial muzzle from the artist’s soul. Artists can create from truth, not market trends. Societies are enriched with beauty, reflection, satire, and emotional healing. Art becomes communal, participatory, and sacred—restoring the temple of creativity in the public square.
We don’t value the most important part of life, art. Expression. Every moment we exist is our art. We’ve monetized it into clicks, tickets, tax write offs, and status. Art is power. Art is freedom. We unshackle ourselves through breaking thr art world free.
—
5. Reweaving with Nature
Capitalism exploits the Earth. UBI allows us to live with mother earth again. Not as a full solution, but a step forward. When people are not enslaved to urban industry or wage labor they can spend more time gardening, permaculturing, wildcrafting, walking forests
During the shutdowns we saw many people move back into nature. They saw the importance of the outdoors and their time. How much our lives relied on these jobs that feed these billionaires or corrupt systems. We reclaim our time to invest into these important things. We reclaim resources from the rich, who have corrupted the system to take resources from us. We can start creating better outdoor spaces, healthier forests, rehabilitating animal habitats, and including these environments into our communities and personal properties. Weaving us back into the system rather than the cancer we’ve become.
—
6. Igniting Collective Creativity
Creativity is not just personal—it’s cultural software. UBI helps enables the emergence of:
– Open-source innovation without profit motives
– Collaborative art spaces, maker collectives, and conscious festivals (more, better, etc)
– Interdisciplinary fusion between scientists, dancers, elders, and children (remove the stigma)
A mycelial network of local creators supported by universal security. Our creativity sparks others. What we do, what we create, how we do it, everything.
In short, a renaissance. We are the new renaissance. Technologically, Techinically, Creativity, and Literally. We are the new renaissance.
—
7. UBI and the Healing of the Nervous System
UBI is not just economic—it’s biological:
Chronic stress drops, reducing cortisol and inflammation. If you’re not worried about how youll eat tonight, you can relax a lot easier. If you know you can make rent, your life is much more tranquil. There is a severe disconnect between the comfortable and the uncomfortable and a lot of people are waking up to the reality and lot of us have been living in for so long.
This gives us time to heal and process. We spend so much time surviving but we need to thrive. We get more time for meditation, breathwork, movement, and reflection becomes normalized.
Children grow up seeing adults who are alive, not just surviving. This creates a generational ripple of attuned, self-aware, and emotionally grounded humans. We are the seeds to a new beautiful future.
—
8. From Market Identity to Soul Identity
Currently, many identify themselves by their job:
> “I’m a lawyer. A barista. A software engineer.”
With UBI, people may start to say (let’s remember this isn’t a cure all but a step forward):
> “I tend trees. I help people listen. I make things with my hands. I like building, flowing, and growing.”
UBI begins to open the door for people to rediscover who they are beyond what they do for money. This is liberating the soul from capitalism’s toxic grasp.
—–
Final Thought
UBI doesn’t just redistribute wealth.
It redistributes possibility.
When no one is forced to sell their time to survive, the spark of human genius—the sacred fire of purpose, connection, and expression—can burn again.
We begin to remember that we are not machines. We are creators, healers, poets, dancers, and dreamers. UBI gives us time to become fully human again.
—-
Talking Points Against UBI Criticisms
1. “People will stop working.”
Reality check: Most people want to contribute meaningfully. UBI gives them the freedom to choose how. Those who don’t have often been spoiled or traumatized. This is where the healing and education comes in.
Pilot programs (e.g., in Finland, Canada, Stockton, CA) show that employment doesn’t drop—in fact, some people start businesses, return to school, or care for family.
This is one of the main keys we learn in meditation. People think when desire to have more is gone that we have nothing left. In fact, it frees us completely to enjoy the moment. In acceptance of who and where we are, we uncage our passions, creativity, and intuition. Our minds fill with the moment and we transcend. Our experience through our vibration becomes more attuned with our highest selves. This coincides with education and social programs. Integrating society into a world of acceptance and love rather than judgement and fear.
UBI doesn’t kill work—it kills forced labor.
—
2. “It’s too expensive.”
It’s a matter of priorities, not affordability. The U.S. spends $877 billion annually on military, and billions on corporate subsidies and bank bailouts. I don’t want to hear a damn thing when we spent millions on a parade for nothing. When we spend billions to kill children and families overseas. Please.
UBI can replace or simplify many costly, inefficient welfare programs. With exceptions for those needing additional support which should be properly compensated, which at this time rarely are.
We’ve seen our government gut itself seeking proper waste of money when we know right where it is. Trim the fat off corporate contracts, military audits, and infinite other methods. A proper taxation of the rich would easily solve many problems.
The question isn’t ‘can we afford it?’—it’s ‘can we afford not to evolve?’
—
3. “UBI will cause inflation.”
Inflation occurs when demand outpaces supply—not simply from more money in people’s hands. If UBI is well-designed, it stimulates productivity in underused sectors like local farms, small business, repair trades, and artisanal goods.
Most UBI models aim to redistribute existing capital, not print excess fiat currency. We saw an economic upturn with more disposable income.
In pilot studies (e.g., Kenya, Alaska), no significant inflation occurred—especially when goods/services are locally sourced. UBI helps to grow both demand and capacity—it empowers creation, not just consumption.
—
4. “It will make people lazy.”
Being forced into soul-crushing work to survive is not virtue—it’s trauma.
Studies show UBI reduces burnout and improves mental health, allowing people to pursue meaningful education, passion projects, or caregiving. Most people you interact with feel like NPCs rather than main characters. Its time we gave everyone a chance to shine.
Laziness is often a symptom of burnout, not character. When people are supported, their drive to grow returns naturally. I remember when I got passionate about keeping fish and learned all about the science of it. Eventually, learning calling the local government in Salisbury and the school because the tap water was coming out with a higher level of Nitrate than reported. A marine biologists at the school confirmed the results and spoke with the mayor. All from a hobby and letting passion lead the way.
UBI doesn’t enable laziness—it helps liberates potential.
—
5. “It’s socialist/communist.”
UBI isn’t about state control—it’s about individual sovereignty. The state already controls us, are you paying attention?
Unlike socialism, UBI doesn’t dictate jobs, redistribute ownership, or centralize control.
UBI is universal and non-coercive—more libertarian than authoritarian. Think of it as dividends on shared infrastructure and automation. It isn’t left or right—it’s forward.”
—
6. “It’ll be abused by addicts or people who don’t deserve it.”
All social systems can be abused, but that’s not a reason to deny dignity to all. It’s more efficient and just to provide universal access than to build massive bureaucracies that judge, exclude, and surveil.
Addiction is a health issue, and UBI offers stability, which improves recovery outcomes more than poverty and shame ever could. Creating social programs to help addicts rather than shame into into a doom spiral is more effective. People don’t heal in cages, they heal from love.
—
7. “Some people don’t need it—why give it to the rich?”
Universality prevents bureaucratic gatekeeping and stigma.
Wealthy recipients can be taxed proportionally or more at year’s end—give to all, reclaim from those with excess. It’s about justice and dignity for all, not picking winners and losers. Universal means no one gets left behind. That remidns me of lilo and stitch. Ohana. Ohana means family. Family means no one gets left behind. We are all one giant family.
—
8. “We need jobs, not handouts.”
UBI is not a handout—it’s economic floor, not a ceiling. A foundation that has been removed from us through the creation of this system we live in today.
It allows risk-taking and entrepreneurship, which creates new jobs. How much more time to blow glass, teaching martial arts, and sink into my passions do you think there would be? Yea. Many jobs today are meaningless, extractive, or even harmful. UBI lets us rethink what work is truly worth doing. Itdoesn’t kill jobs, it evolves them out of this soul crusher into a soul booster.
—
9. “What about people with disabilities or special needs?”
UBI would complement, not replace, targeted supports for vulnerable populations. Most people with special needs I’ve met are severely under funded.
A universal floor simplifies eligibility, while additional layers can support those with specific medical or caregiving needs. It does not excuse lowering other support but helps lift an already suffering individual.
—
10. “It won’t work in complex economies.”
UBI has been tested globally, from Namibia to Alaska to Finland, with consistently positive results: mental health, entrepreneurship, education, and trust all improve.
It can be piloted locally, adjusted regionally, and scaled gradually.
In the AI/automation era, complex economies require bold decisions, not outdated systems built for inequality. We’ve seen through the veil, now we must act. This is not utopian—it’s overdue.
—
UBI isn’t about giving people money.
It’s about giving them time, dignity, and the freedom to choose how to contribute to a world in transformation.
We need to live in a free world that reflects our hearts.
Nice article, however, you duplicated the final points.
Thank you