Post by @bri7@social.treehouse.systems

@bri7@social.treehouse.systems

2026-05-11 08:20 UTC

what if you took the billions of dollars being spent on data centres and spent it on UBI instead then you’s have a whole bunch of people suddenly with all this free time on their hands to make you pictures and answer your weird research questions

Replies (3)

@emmy@transfem.social 2026-05-11 11:16

@bri7@social.treehouse.systems but then people might have free time, and start improving themselves and organizing. That's too dangerous for the ruling class.

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@punissuer@universeodon.com 2026-05-11 22:34

@bri7@social.treehouse.systems OH (tumblr post I don't recall verbatimly enough to search for it): If we guaranteed everyone food, shelter, and mobility, people would just do all kinds of things they thought are useful. Eg., there would be an autistic person cleaning every pipe in a 10 miles radius,...

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@tarrenvane@autistics.life 2026-05-11 23:20

@PepperTheVixen@meow.social @bri7@social.treehouse.systems Totally agree with this. If folx didn't have to worry about surviving, it would probably be easier to find creatives willing to make that music/voiceover/graphic you need.

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