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"The first time I ever really listened to Kyle Kulinski’s show was in the back of a cab last summer. The driver had his phone hooked up through the stereo and was pumping out an episode through the car speakers - loudly, as if looking to convert a captive audience.
“Do you like Kyle Kulinski?”
The driver, Ahmed, was a recent immigrant and apparently a die-hard fan of Secular Talk, the political talk show that Kulinski broadcasts on TH-cam. I told him, yes, in fact. I do like Kulinski, had come across his show several years ago, and, all things considered, he seemed pretty good.
“He understands what we’re up against,” Ahmed said. “Like Bernie.”
But I was surprised to hear Kulinski’s name mentioned in the same breath as Bernie Sanders, particularly with such adoration. Because what I did remember about Kulinski’s show struck me as mostly capital-P “progressive” takes on the news - the left wing of the Netroots crowd more than the democratic socialism Sanders has popularized.
It’s an impression that wasn’t entirely incorrect.
“I have no time for philosophical, airy bullshit,” Kulinski tells me from his home in Westchester, New York. “I don’t want to hear about Lenin. I don’t want to hear about Marx. I just want a super plainspoken, straightforward agenda with a straightforward way of selling it.”
With over 800,000 subscribers and nearly 670 million total views on TH-cam, selling a progressive agenda is clearly something Kulinski knows how to do - even Democracy Now, the long-standing flagship of progressive media, cannot match his reach on the platform. Chapo Trap House can certainly boast a wildly devoted fan base (and a not insignificant degree of media influence), but their audience is roughly half the size of Kulinski’s.
While Secular Talk might be more likely to be looped in with the progressive networks around Air America and Pacifica alums like Sam Seder than the more resolutely socialist world, Kulinski’s fiery rhetoric, razor-sharp class instincts, and knack for withering takedowns sets him apart from his peers. Judging by his rhetoric alone, he’s closer to a Eugene Debs than a Chris Hayes.
But unlike Hayes, Amy Goodman, or his friend Cenk Uygur of The Young Turks - who began airing Secular Talk on his web network seven years ago - the thirty-two-year-old Kulinski is virtually invisible in the mainstream media. Despite his enormous fan base, his show has never once been mentioned in the obligatory trend pieces on “the Millennial Left” pumped out by the prestige media. Nor has Kulinski’s name ever popped up at all in the New York Times, Vox, the New Yorker, New York Magazine, or the Washington Post, despite his leading role in cofounding Justice Democrats, the organization widely credited with sweeping Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and the rest of “the Squad” to power.
Just last week, his Wikipedia page was deleted. The reason? “There is very simply no [reliable source] coverage of this person,” according to one moderator. In new media, he’s king - the Sean Hannity of the Berniecrat left. In old media, he’s nobody.
I suspect there are a few reasons for that. There is nothing “cool” about Kulinski’s show. (As a friend put it, “‘Welcome to Secular Talk’ sounds like something you’d hear on Egyptian radio.”) His no-nonsense social-democratic politics won’t get him much cred with the Full Communism crowd. He records his show not in Brooklyn or Los Angeles, but in a studio he built himself in his modest Westchester home. His hair is too groomed and his taste in clothes too preppy to qualify as “Dirtbag Left.” Nor has he ever attended an n+1 release party. “Not only have I not attended one,” he says, “I have no idea what that means.”
And yet he’s astonishingly plugged-in for a young man in the suburbs. Wondering how Sanders ended up on the Joe Rogan Experience? Kulinski, a frequent guest on Rogan’s wildly popular show, introduced them. “You make the most sense to me,” Rogan told Kulinski on a recent episode. “You’re a normal person.”
Much like Sanders himself, Kulinski’s show has a massive audience that just doesn’t compute with our media’s understanding of “what the kids want” or even “what the left-wing kids want.”
It’s probably for the best - the very woke and very WASP-ish decorum haunting much of the media world is nowhere to be found in Secular Talk. “Corporate Democrats over-focus on identity as a trick to divert you from the issues that unite us all - class issues,” he said on a recent episode.
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No one should be homeless when they're working full time. That's soooo fucked up.
In the real world in America ordinary working class is working one paycheck from homelessness this capitalism the have and the have not,
That's the USA for you.
No one should be homeless whether or not they work. Society will not stop functioning if we lose a bunch of cashiers and waitresses. As the pandemic demonstrated, there are actually very few necessary jobs these days. We need infrastructure maintenance, resource extraction, food production, healthcare, etc i.e. only about 15% of available jobs. I'd go so far as to say most jobs do more harm than good tbh.
Meanwhile, some Boomers have 4 houses, 1 for living in and 3 to rent out so he can live off that. His grandchildren (yes, I'm thinking of a specific Boomer) might never own their first home if housing trends continue.
The "American Dream" isn't dead for all of us. The Boomers made their bag and they are going to burn this whole mother down before they go.
@@KennedyIvy Right! Just move away, those kids don't need parents. You don't need to live near your family. And if that makes you a crappy parent, we can just jail you or steal the kids. Bootstrap mofo!
Stop blaming the poor for poverty
I wish.
Who are you talking to? Do you keep a straw man in your room at all times?
@@KanazawaKings Not much of a straw man, as its just a simple statement telling people to stop doing something...
Making wide sweeping generalizations, are the position of a weak intellect.
@@uncomfortabletruth5915 considering the language used, its specific to people who do the action, and is hardly a generalization.
I'm so shocked that treating people like human beings makes the world a better place...
The homeless need homes. The poor need money. The sick need health care.
Why does someone, a middleman, have to profit from that need being met? Why not cut out the middlemen?
Crazy talk, I know
The handouts keep the fentanyl dealers fat and happy.
I'm a community nutrition educator. I go to food pantries an do a survey to find out what chronic illnesses are effecting the community. After 1 year the clients had lower incidents of chronic illness symptoms. It was a HUGE success. We also paid close attention to to over looked people ie homeless. We also set up a barter system to reduce food waste. I'm in Arizona. I worked to ship excess to the Arizona Mexico border. The PUSHBACK was CRAZY. Im still working to get the program going. We're on boarding nutritionist, culinary students, graphic design students as well. I love it when folks get I the community and get their hands dirty. The problems can be solved!
@@WilliamBrowning Because the middlemen are greedy bastards that own everything, including the government.
an outstanding solution!
Take the money from all the wars and give our homeless a chance for a better life.
Pure Fantasy. Freedom comes at a high price.
I'd suggest instead of tax breaks. We help the poor.
Alaska has been doing a UBI since 1982. It is funded by charging oil companies fees to extract oil from their land. We shouldn't let corporations be extracting and excluding natural resources for free, they should be paying for value that the citizens are entitled to! Divvy up the revenues into a citizen's dividend and pay people for being a part of a country that generates economic value.
P.S. in terms of the study referenced in Denver they found that people who received $5,500 up front and $500 a month increase the ability to get housed over the $1,000 per month option, still 12k but it shows how money can be utilized more efficiently to start programs off. It makes sense when they're security deposits and other upfront costs to get an apartment.
Just imagine if we coordinated all the homeless with the empty housing we have all over the country, or with Section 8 housing, transitional housing of some sort. Having the stability of a place to sleep, shower, store and cook food, allows one to look at other options in life like getting a job, going back to school, etc. America can never be a GREAT country while our own suffer in the streets.
The population of Alaska is like 700k. Aint nobody wanna live there bruh
@@apoc5000 The US is the world's largest oil producer. Colorado is filled with oil wells. Not to mention there are so many other natural resources that could be taxed.
@@apoc5000700,000 people is "nobody"? Clearly, some people do want to live there.
you think oil/gas companies get to make all that money without the state/public getting any? the public should get more than they do but it's not nothing, just because they don't give it out to residents in a lump sum in the rest of the country (because people live there by choice already) doesn't mean that it doesn't benefit the public
I heard a quote once that said, ‘poverty is not a lack of character. It’s a lack of cash..’
Healthcare is the same way. Because everybody is not covered we actually spent more money than we would if we just gave everybody healthcare. NPR had a report that said our healthcare in the United States cost $1.3 trillion. If we went to a national healthcare system that would save about a3 to 2/3 of that instantaneously. They said about 1/3 of what we spend on healthcare today goes to profits and 1/3 is waste And visit the emergency room when they don’t have health insurance and everybody has to pay for it. What is the definition of insanity??
Exactly
Kyle got it wrong in this video. Paying 800 people $1k a month for 10 months costs $8 million. They saved only $600k. This was _not_ profitable.
Though it should be done anyway for moral reasons.
@@Raphael4722
But one would have to do in depth study’s to quantify impacts for each individual, whether they benefited and were lifted up by
Such welfare.
the quote is from dutch historian Rutger Bregman, he did a great ted talk about it 🔥
I will say that it is the appropriation of the money. And unfortunately much of it does not trickle down past the workers. I know!!!!!
"Broken" system? This is crapitalism, son. The system IS WORKING PRECISELY AS DESIGNED. It's not "broken and just needs to be fixed", "it works *as intended* and needs to be DISMANTLED."
This needs to be done worldwide.
People like Trump could never do that
@@toneyingram732 Yeah, he would rather want everyone to suffer because the "Bible" Says it.
@@toneyingram732 Biden hasn't done it either. He could easily do it and secure votes but he didn't.
@@damon6086 yeah right
100%
Another one I like Kyle is the French Food Waste Law. Groceries can't throw away edible food or they face a $4500 fine for each occurrence. The food MUST be donated to food pantries and kitchens. It's a 2018 deal.
Most shops in the UK reduce the expiring food what they don't sell they give to food banks. I NEVER understood why they did not do that in the US grocery stores.
This is too productive of an idea for the Americans, go away, you obviously don’t know our culture.
That’s a great idea.
The US thinks punishing poor people will make them do better somehow
"This debate is over" facts have never stopped the right from continuing to argue
The left hates UBI just as much as the right just for different reasons. The right can't stand the idea of giving the dregs of society free money and the necessary taxation of megacorps. The left can't stand the idea of giving the hyper-rich free money and the necessary cutting of bloated welfare programs. Obviously communists hate the idea of shifting focus off of "workers" and "labor", so anything that does that is a non-starter. The first pilot program for UBI was actually conducted by the Nixon administration.
Both sides are anti-UBI and both sides are at fault.
They are just for the rich like Trump
They don't need to process new information. The conservative mind is closed because they know everything.
The leftist welfare state apparatchiks never stop fudging the data. The government gave handouts since the 60s fighting the "war on poverty " . Poverty won and the cities are still crap.
Lol
Who could've ever guessed putting less pressure on humans makes them more productive and happy...
the real owners of america think it's better for the masses to be miserable and under control than productive and happy
Cue the selfish people who will be against it because that means giving something to someone without strings attached.
Unless it`s for big business or the rich and then it`s ok.
@@webman1956
Corporations are not people.
You give what you have to drug addicts, people live on fixed incomes and they can’t afford the squeeze anymore!
@@webman1956 I was gonna say, the reason they don't do anything like this, is because someone isn't making a profit. Saving money is not enough, profit is needed for change.
@@Neanderthal75Direct personal benefit of the wealthy as well as stock benefit increases, seem to be what count today.
So I work in mental health helping the homeless every day for about 40 hours a week. This would absolutely work. It is literally an investment into our community. You are right it will save taxpayers so much money to actually address the issues directly. So much of the unhoused folks problems stem from the fact that there is no way to bounce back once you sink. For example, if you have not rented a residence for some period of time it is held against you. Same goes for any gaps in your employment. In my career, I’ve met a lot of people who have a full-time job who are not on drugs who are homeless. It’s really difficult to secure those basic needs when you do not have a safe place to shower sleep, and conduct any business that you need to do. Like you said, it is the fiscal conservative way to go as well as the moral one. Time and time again it has proven to be so, but people are so determined to find a reason to allow our community to deteriorate.
This will NOT work for drug addicts who refuse treatment and refuse to work. They destroy and trash every home they live in. It's been tried here in Cali and failed miserably.
Uhuh... and what about the hordes of them addicted to drugs, how does the free money help them?
@@rawx485 Idk if you know this, but people who are addicted to drugs, also need groceries in order to survive. Getting over a drug addiction seems difficult under the best of circumstances, without money for food, seems impossible to me. NO addiction has EVER ended because the addict ran out of money, thats not how addiction works. Have a great day friend, love thy neighbor, even if they dont have a house.
they're not conservatives. they're robber barons who wanna larp as lords over a fiefdom.
Watch white underbelly podcast to get grip of reality
Denver native here, it’s gotten a LOT better in these last few months but summer will tell the whole story. Love this program and love being in a progressive city that practices good values that they also preach
I mean mayor Johnston has been spending $150 million on reducing homelessness.... So that might be a part of it, lol
The hell it has, this place is trashed. Drug use is through the roof, crime is so bad police stopped responding and people just don’t report anything anymore because nothing gets done. You can’t leave your car alone or someone will steal it, break into it, drain the gas or cut the Cats off! This place is a shithole and the city just keeps taxing and charging fees for everything!
@Joseph-kq9zc but taxes are what pay for our progressive policies. We need to tax people more so we can get more back.
No society has ever been taxed into prosperity
It’s not a progressive city lmfao..just happens to be less fascist than the disgusting states and towns that border you
Well done, hometown of mine. Now, let's see all cities across the country actually treat the homeless as human beings.
This is why I am in favor of just giving money directly to homeless people. It helps them. The fact that we as a society don't do this and penalize people who give money to homeless people, is sickening.
In Canada we have had multiple UBI pilot programs tested, all have been successful. What most people don't realize is that we've had one running for seniors since 1967. It's called the GIS (Guaranteed Income Supplement) and it ensures an economic floor for all seniors in Canada. Works great!!!
I heard a quote once that said, ‘poverty is not a lack of character. It’s a lack of cash..’
Rutger Bregman
some characters use their cash for dumb sh8t. thats a part of their character. SOME... not all
@@Dan16673SOME yeah, and then we waste the same amount ruining them ALL
@@Dan16673most of them are wealthy…
True-ish but its no secret that people in poverty are much more likely to commit violent crime
Who could have imagined that people with no money could benefit from some money!?
@@420Satan69 count your blessings friend many cannot work
@@420Satan69 Sounds like it's time for bootstraps
$1000 too much, a few hundred will reduce inflation make people more careful. Eliminate many jobs distributing benefits
@@frankjoseph4273no $1,000 actually is not enough to live for a month in Denver. It should just be enough to live
@@420Satan69aren't you glad that you don't have a severe mental or physical disability that keeps you from functioning in society?
I promise you that what you think of as free money comes at a cost that's so horrifying you cannot possibly comprehend it.
4 day working week, man that would be heaven.
You can even do overtime with a 4 day week. An still get 3 days off.
The thing that's so effective about "starting from a place of trust" is that it is soooooo expensive to police what people spend their aid on. You have to hire full time government employees and set up expensive IT systems to track all that. None of that is necessary when you're just giving people cash without any strings attached.
Giving people money reduces poverty
I am shocked.
Shocked!
Ive worked four 10’s for the past 5 years at my current job and my previous job. Every employer who can do this should figure out how to do this. So many benefits. 1 hour lunches. Still working 40 hours. I have Fridays off which means I don’t have to take days off to go to the dmv, doctor visits, run errands, etc. if I needed I could use that Friday to do side work to supplement income. Not to mention being able to have an extra day with my family. That third day off really makes a difference. It’s amazing!
I keep a quote on my profiles that I think is very relevant to this.
"You will observe with concern, how long a useful truth may be known and exist, before it is generally received and practiced on." - Benjamin Franklin
I checked your profile on youtube and the quote isn't there
Like how owning slaves was wrong? 😂
That's a phenomenal quote!
Quess what, if the $$$ we are giving to Isreal every month and have been for years, Instead is given to USA homeless we could reduce homelessness in every major city. This is what it means to take care of our own FIRST before reaching out to other nations!!!
It is really hard being homeless in the city. I've been homeless in and off for 20 years. Anyone normal goes to a more rural area. The people in the city are all hard drug addicts. ALL! THEY ARE NO DIFFERENT THAN ELON MUSK. THEY WOULD TAKE IT ALL IF THEY COULD.
Yep this is fine. Our abusive federal agencies that you are literally apparently aware of that could print infinite IDs definitely couldn’t get around this at all and give themselves infinite stolen tax money.
even with that money given to Israel, there's still enough to take care of the homeless but the american way says it's better to muscle the poor than spend less on actually taking care of them
The saddest thing is none of these solutions are a secret or are difficult to implement. It's just that there are those who don't want things to get better.
We are now living "Les Miserables" in the USA. The poor are criminalized due to their homelessness. It is so very sad.
Medicare 4 All. Social Security 4 All. Federal Jobs 4 All.
Well for some.
lol sounds like a great way to make a nation of trash
Yea so far everything the government touches turns to shit so I'll pass on the fed controlling literally everything....
@@MrPhotodoc”Medicare 4 all” means surrendering control of your healthcare decisions to the government. 😳
I would LOVE to have my healthcare paid for, but not the Pharma-driven, broken version of “healthcare” I know our corrupt government will happily push on us!
Not sure about federal jobs 4 all tbh. More federal jobs protected by public unions is another layer of bureaucracy plus with our current debts we probably have to raise taxes on everyone to cover our current spending or make budget cuts in the future. Having a well managed government and finances is important if you want a well managed social programs.
Yes, it's called "general relief". It improves lives.
There's one other kind of study where we always get the same results: public subsidies for professional sports stadiums are always always always always always a rip-off for the taxpayers
I've been saying this for like 12 years, UBI is super important to implement. Let's just do it already!!
Yes
If you think inflation is bad now, imagine what prices would be looking like if we implemented UBI
You can fund it completely then, fuck that I am not paying higher taxes
@daliguj221 Hmm. People 'having money for food and housing' doesn't 'increase inflation'. 'Inflation' is literally 'steadily increasing price gouging'. You 'fix it' by taxing corporate profits on an increasing scale, and taxing ultra-wealth.
@@Tragick_Sin A lot of the money could come form taxing corpations,Up the taxes on the wealthy. millions could be taken from the military and they would never miss it.
I am 77 and I don’t make $1,000 in my Social Security a month.
The government sees 77 year olds as lazy and non-contributing to society, or worse, a drain on society. So they "give" you an amount of money based on that failed logic. Yet half of congress is older than you and magically wants millions of dollars a year more than they're supposed to be making with congressional salary.
You should.
you should be getting like 2500 minimum
Are you homeless?
Shame on America government people can't even retire with dignity
Yep i believe it! And I've been homeless and have lived in Denver for 12 years
I,m from Finland and we have no homeless issue. If you have no job or you some other broblem goverment give you money. Give you housing and save taxpayers money. That is true. Nordic model.
Aren't you so fucking wonderful
Yes extend it to all people in need
1. Money out of politics.
2. POTUS is elected by popular vote.
3. Ranked- choice voting
4. Address climate change
We need to improve our democratic process so we can have our voices heard and be able to achieve the other things we need to do. Then we need to address climate change like it's WW3 so that there will be enough of us left here to make all the other issues matter.
I don't have the article in front of me, but I read that every dollar invested in the poor yields 5x ROI. We saw this during the pandemic as well. People's lives, especially children, were vastly improved. The answer to eradicating poverty in this country is obvious and easily implementable - the issue is the people in power who literally don't give a f about us.
I saw yesterday a story of a business man inceasing his employees salary to $77,000 a year. It was poo hood, and the man was told his business would fold. What happened was his business profits went up and the growth of sales created more wealth for that business man and his employee satisfaction increased
If employers paid more this would Not be an issue. The problem is greed.
Yep
You give em a house or a income. Solves the problem.
If a full time hard working single parent is living in their car or in a tent encampments our taxes need to help such families. We need to help suffering homeless whatever we can do. One sickness can knock a family down. Also fix existing vacant building so families have a home.
the ones in power maintain that it doesn't work that way
@@saagisharon8595 WE THE PEOPLE eventually will change things and every bureaucrat will live in a tent where they belong for bankrupting the American public.
Won't change their minds
@@sfi3807 it may not change their minds, however if they can't do their job its time for them to be voted out.
@@lorascelsi8102 I wish this was the case, but poor people like myself can't afford to run for office.
Ubi should be given to more than just homeless but this could help thousands. Too bad we invest in israel more than americans
Even if you need to be homeless to get it, this would make a huge impact on every American and you would have a basic safety net.
But Israel is America...
Why ignore the endless tax cuts for the 1% and corporations and endless corporate welfare?
I work 4 days a week. Its glorious. Seriously.
Where? Is there a article about that company? Or are you self-employed?
I work 0 days a week, and it truly is glorious. So glad others are finally waking up!
This is the kind of thing that my state would never do. I hate it here, and all the pricks who say, "well just move" Yeah, maybe you can just pick up and move, I can't. Most people can't.
Texas is trash in every way
Probably 90% percent of the people that say that aren't capable of doing anything or moving anywhere or existing as anything else other than an asswipe.
Most of us can barely afford to survive and they expect us to be able to afford to move. What does that solve anyway? Running away from problems has never once improved anything.
Lol if you’re a straight male caucazoid you can live wherever you want capitalist
@@Thezuule1lol if you stay in a fascist place, you’re a fascist
Yeah the downside is that it saved the city $589214 but cost the city around $6.4 million…
lol I worked in downtown Denver when all this started.. it did NOT work at all. It turned into a complete 💩 hole. The amount of dope fiends on the streets skyrocketed
Aka... This just in from the No Shit Sherlock Department!
But but But Joe Rogan told me to just work out do jujutsss and start a podcast and sniff alpha brain
This department run by captain obvious.
You read my mind.🤭
@@Mossaab-kg3cj5hc5s Working out is still good for you
@@Johnnysmithy24 no shit
Thank you, Kyle and others who help humanity!
$1000 a month would be life changing for my husband and I. I am 52 and disabled, so can only work a limited number of hours a week, or I will collapse. My husband is older and retired, but only receives a small amount of social security. We would be able to stop being so stressed, pay off some bills, pursue medical care we’ve had to put off (like getting my husband’s hearing tested, I worry he will lose his hearing altogether without assistance). Ai is beginning to creep into the field I work, at some point most Americans will be replaced at work. Those in power know this, they are simply trying to extract as much as possible before they have no choice but to pay UBI. This era sucks!
That cook thing is ridiculous. 40 is the bare minimum in the industry. Imagine working 50+ hours regularly and still only having 400 after everything
He was apparently paying child support for multiple kids.
@Raphael4722 oh no I mean the fact that he was a line cook. Even on slow days I was used to hitting 52 hours. If it's not a franchise you could be hitting the 60+ range easy.
How much child support was he paying?
Cooks are criminally underpaid, despite standing all day in a 100 degree heat and working almost non-stop. I know because my dad was a cook and his paycheck was a total joke. You have to be in Europe and be a cook to actually count as having a job and an income. In USA it's basically slavery.
I'm on SS and I am here to tell you that 16K a year after you are retired is not enough to live.
But give Israel and Ukraine billions every month
That is why you should tell every young person in your life to invest and save, you can easily be a millionare by retirement just by investing the same amount they take out in social security.
Nah... everyone cannot be a millionaire by retirement
@@Boris80b it is simple math, compounding interest, and putting in the money.
Wishful thinking, especially today
same principle with Medicare for all funded study by the Kock brothers found it would cost two trillion dollars less than not having it at all.
My boy friends brother participated in this program and it helped him get off the streets get a place to stay and then he got a job. People don’t realize that it’s hard to get a job when you live on the streets because you have no address you have no place to get a decent night sleep or somewhere to go and take a shower at the time you need to to get to work there’s a lot involved, I think this great program to help people get on their feet.
Did you support Andrew Yang
Alternate title: 55% of homeless got free taxpayers money for 10 months and stayed homeless
We needed UBI years ago
As Andrew Yang advocated so strongly... and now the proof has revealed itself. Thanks bro👊
It's kinda funny that I had to scroll so far down for the first mention of Andrew Yang. The one person running for president with a platform based on this policy. But the naysayers and jealous types will want everything for them and nothing for the less fortunate.
Other countries actually utilize taxes to help the most vulnerable, not giving tax breaks and subsidies to the ultra wealthy! What a concept. Investing in their people is not only the right thing to do, the more compassionate thing to do l, but it's also what is best for the bottom line/the economy and overall for the country as a whole.
We also need a federal living wage per region and regulations on companies in terms of employment practices, too. In addition, Unuversal HC as the number one debt in this country is medical debt, just getting sick in this can leave you homeless. Also, no person should be homeless when they have a full-time job. We really do function like a third world country and we are basically an oligarchy! So disgusting!
My brother was recently diagnosed with stage 4 colon cancer. Due to this and his treatmeant he cannot work as a machinest as he done for the last 20 years and facing losing his house. UBI would be nice for someone like him. Its really sucks people go broke by getting sick.
We used to have a welfare system in this country, but Bill Clinton got rid of that.
His welfare to work program is why I lost my food stamps despite me having $0 income.
I can't work 30 hours a week when I'm in college full-time.
he made so many bad deals with the Republicans. he sold us out.
@@scifirealism5943yes I always hear people complaining about welfare queens. I’m like what welfare. There is no safety net.
@@michelleespino9814 because many people think poverty is due to laziness.
@@michelleespino9814 yep
Please do the math 800×1,000×12 = $9,600,000 - 600,000 = $9,000,000 so let me get this straight you want to spend $9 million tax payer dollars to save $600,000 tax payer dollars...make this make sense...I went back and reran the numbers based on the different amounts and it goes like this 266x1000x12 + 266x6,500 + 266x500x12 + 50x266x12 = $6,676,600 - 600,000 = $6,076,000 so me get this straight you want to spend $6 million tax payer dollars to save $600,000 tax payer dollars...make this make sense...either way the government spends $6 million + to save $600,000 this is definitely the kind of math Washington Politicians can get behind...
Was it 600k a month or in total? either way it's obviously a bigger spend than a gain, but still.
Like the child care tax credit monthly, which changed so many children’s lives… I’m a boomer but I love to see families struggling less, and kids not having to go without.. In NH a one bedroom is approximately 1500 per month and that’s just a small less than average one If you can even find one… Very little supply… not including heat, lights, etc..
Did slavery in the USA ever go away? Slave wages are the problem.
The problem is the system relies on people being desperate so people accept crappy working conditions for low pay.
Bingo
I work exclusively with our unhoused population in Montana. Thank you for doing the segment! Absolute truth. ❤🎉
i love this story THANK YOU DENVER for helping your citizens .....F*King awesome
As someone who has seen Denver evolve since moving to Colorado in 1996. No, it did not work. Denver is littered with tents and is more dangerous than ever. The dichotomy of new buildings and tent cities is jarring. I used to be proud of having a clean, safe capitol, not anymore.
The child tax credit that was given over 21- 22 raised the living standard of a lot of families. All the money for war and death, none for health and life.
Homelessness is a corruption of society showing how much we distain our fellow humans to deem them worthless leaving them to the cold world
The REAL upside is that most programs require staff & staff are expensive. Give people the money & you eliminate 'the middle man'
Time and again we see that "middle men" have very sticky fingers, and significantly less than the original amount makes it to the recipients.
No, this is fine. Like an abusive federal agency that could print infinite IDs definitely couldn’t get around this at all and give themselves infinite stolen tax money.
The downside is that there will be fewer desperate people for the 1% to abuse. That's why it will never happen
Exactly
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That's it, in a nutshell... the rich _desperately_ need poverty; because, without poverty; there is no desperation, and without desperation; there is no exploitation... Exploitation is Capitalism fuel. Without it, the system grinds to a halt, pretty damn quickly...
Maybe we ought to consider giving homeless people $ 10.000/month. I guaranty you, within 1 year 90% of them will have a house, drive a car and go on holidays. Instant success!!
Money is free, right??
Man, just imagine if you heard today that a country dismantled their social security or pension system or whatever it's called. The first thing you would think about that country is that they're savages and they're going back to the stone age. Not to mention people would be out in the streets because I doubt you'd find one normal person talking crap about social security. That's how big of a game changer it was, and that's how big of a game changer UBI would be.
1. Healthcare
2. Education
3. Shelter
In no particular order
I've worked a 4 day week for 15 years. Im now considered a part-time job, although it's only 8 hrs less. My mental health and work life balance improved . Everyone thinks im lazy, but i dont have all the crap most people have, so wait for it, i dont need to work all available hours to pay for it
Years ago in construction I had the pleasure of working some jobs that were scheduled at 4 -10hr days. Still 40 hrs. =full time with benefits but a 3 day weekend and if overtime was needed we could work 8 on Friday and still have a "traditional" weekend. It was wonderful!
The key to ending homelessness is to give them $ or rent free apartments. But conservatives complain this encourages laziness. It doesn't.
They are off the street, become consumers. This system already exists in Western Europe. After Corona, we continued to work from home 1 day a week bc it increased performance, and decreased office costs.
The same study (I hate to be that guy) stated the control group that got 50 dollars a month 43% got housing. So there is more going on here.
Exactly. The results showed no statistical significance. KYLE IS LYING
$1200/fortnight + free medical in Australia right now has been for years. It's called social security
$1200/fortnite? Isn't that about $3600 a month?
How long is a fortnight & do only your elderly get social security?
If you’re a certain shade of paleness...
Universal healthcare is another policy that works but we absolutely believe we can't do it. "Frustrating" is not a strong enough word.
As a taxpayer I hate to pay for warfares, I don't mind paying basic income with my taxes to Americans to boost the economy.
Also that money is literally going right back into the local economy. Trickle up economics.
I know people have a knee-jerk reaction to hearing "give the homeless $1000 a month", it's so easy to just assume the outcome. But time after time, the results of these kinds of studies just prove that these solutions actually just work.
Intuition is powerful, but it needs to take a back seat when the data is just so damn clear.
Most of us are one or two emergencies away from living outside. Let that sink in.
800 People x 1000 $ x 12 months, that's 9.600.000 $. The program saves around 600.000 $ in services, so it still costs the taxpayer waaaay more than it saves. I'm open to UBI, but stick to the facts Kyle.
Tbf they lost money. They gave 800 participants 1k over 10 months. So about 8 million dollars and they saved 600k...so yeah, they would still have their "who pays for it" argument.
It always does work perfectly.
This isn’t really what it showed. There were two main issues with this study. One is it excluded people with severe mental or drug use problems which are the group causing the biggest issues with homelessness. And the results of the $50/month group (the “control” group) was pretty much just as good as the $1000/mo group. Suggesting the support systems and lack of severe mental health or drug issues were the key to success here not the extra $.
As someone who works in a hospital this makes sense they are never going to recoup the costs of people who stay in hospitals because they don’t want to go back to being scared living on the streets. It makes sense to help people where they are at and just give people a break. Not to mention it’s humane and just like a good thing to do. You should help people when they are down not kick them.
I think people don't realize the sheer amount of homeless people that have full-time jobs but the thing is these land lords if they finf out people are getting 1000 they're gonna I want that and raise their rent by 1000 it's a shit situation
don't pay it, it's that simple.
Buy a 90s Winnebago and keep collecting them checks.
That's assuming you could get the corrupt to actually implement UBI, but let's go with that assumption; it would be extremely idiotic to implement such a program, and not at the same time make what you're suggesting illegal.
However, as a tactic of the corrupt; it would be in their benefit to not make it illegal, so that they can point and say "See! Didn't work!" regardless though; UBI is going to be a necessity because of Augmented Intelligence. So they're gonna have to figure it out one way or another, or we *will* eat the rich; which would *not* be in the benefit of the corrupt.
@@nocheckmarkgamessimple is not living in a car
@@kyleabent It is pretty simple.
You just have been smoothbrained by Capitalism to believe you need an entire house for Just You.
@@kyleabent nah, this the best situation, just get a nice van w/ tinted windows and become a hippie; landlords go broke while everyone else os living their best life 😌
Bro cant math... 800 people, $1000 per month, $800,000 per month for 12 months $9.6million to save $600,000 on hospital visits
Ya I was confused about the ‘saving money’ part. Still support the program but his math is off
I’m in Denver and live right across from a homeless encampment. More needs to be done because it’s still a huge issue. At least 20 people within a block or two away from me are in psychosis. The constant screaming, drug abuse, and general lack of stability when living on the streets is too hard to watch and something drastic needs to be done because Denver looks like a dystopian nightmare rn.
I was initially skeptical of UBI. But enough studies have come out now for me to see the obvious: it works.
In limited test trials*
What about the fifty percent who took the money but never got housing?
Lol how could you be skeptical you cappy cap
A guy living in his car and working a job can be helped for sure. As for the true homeless who are destitute and mentally ill, no amount of money will help.
For those people, how about specific programs to help them?
Lol karma gon get you
that's why they need institutions. I don't know why they got rid of them instead of just fixing them . they thought they could just give people pills and send them on their merry way and then guess what they stop taking their pills and live in the subway and throw people in the tracks. lovely
@@SandyCheeks63564 lol it’s called w supremacy
Access to free healthcare that isn't taken away the moment you get a job with survivable wage would be the best place to start.
The Denver Mayor recently cut funding to support the homeless, and Denver also recently had to stop providing housing assistance to migrants because funding is drying up. I live in Colorado, and visit Denver fairly regularly. Every time I go back, the city is in a worse state. My wife and I both work full time, and the majority of housing in Denver would be too expensive for us. It's insane. We have so much more to fix than just giving out money, but maybe it's a start.
Sometimes, people just need a little help.
The fact that companies are making so much more money with AI and people losing their jobs it even makes more sense .
Very few people will actually lose their jobs to AI in the long run. It's not really good at anything where you need a person's judgment to decide.
It's only actually good at sorting large amounts of data which is what it was designed for in the first place.
@angelainamarie9656 some companies tried.... then hired people back.
@@angelainamarie9656auto checkouts are replacing checkout tellers, though I agree there is a transition period where people need to be indoctrinated into being proficient with such transactions.,
It will happen, though it will take decades and there will be a new economy, like we say with the tech sector..
Always something new..
Article says they spent $9.4 million and saved an estimated $589,000. That's not proof it works yet.
At the root of the problem is also our distrust of one another
Awesome move