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Tom Pogson
@basicbc.bsky.social
Musician, writer, and Basic Income Victoria BC Guy who knows the abundance of a better world IS possible.

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January 11, 2026 at 12:30 AM
"Seeing the cat" is a phrase for seeing a hidden cat in a old picture that once seen, you can't unsee.

With both basic income and the need to capture land values the implications are both unrealized and dramatic.

Here is Martin Adams and others at a recent talk i attended.
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Victoria BC Housing & LVT Meetup - November 2025
YouTube video by Common Wealth Canada
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January 11, 2026 at 12:29 AM
Buckminster Fuller in the late 60s

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Alan Watts - Money, Guilt & the Machine
YouTube video by Winston Wolf
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January 10, 2026 at 7:00 PM
Longer clip on this subject:
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The Corruption of Capitalism Why rentiers thrive and work Guy Standing
YouTube video by CHRISTIE MALRYS LIBRARY
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January 10, 2026 at 6:50 PM
Reposted by Tom Pogson
When we talk about crime we never talk about wage theft or illegal evictions or violations of health, safety, workplace or environmental laws

www.interruptingcriminalization.com/resources-al...
Shoplifting: Corporate Copaganda — Interrupting Criminalization
A resource on how claims of a “shoplifting surge” by corporations and the media is copaganda, Read about the rise of private security and why it is essential that we strip the power of corporations to...
www.interruptingcriminalization.com
January 10, 2026 at 1:22 AM
Truth is if you worked as an economist in the UK you know this person. You know he's right as well. You know that where we are is because economic uncertainty and instability in a global transformation is not being addressed.

So, actually act.
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Standing Strong: Economic Solutions in Uncertain Times with Guy Standing
YouTube video by Room for Discussion
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January 10, 2026 at 6:18 PM
In a text format:
basicincome.org/history/
A short history of the Basic Income idea | BIEN — Basic Income Earth Network
basicincome.org
January 9, 2026 at 8:10 PM
Professor Standings chapter "Confronting the utilitarian consensus" of his 2014 book "The Precariat Charter" explains what happened in sharp detail.

This talk is especially enlightening. UK based but as he has explained, its a global phenomenon.
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Professor Guy Standing on the Utilitarian Neoliberal agenda.
YouTube video by Tom Pogson
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January 8, 2026 at 7:57 PM
Truth is we should have over 50 years ago:
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"UBI isn't needed because of automation, it's long overdue"-Professor Karl Widerquist
YouTube video by Tom Pogson
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January 8, 2026 at 7:35 PM
"Resistance comes not from (potential) laziness in others but having to face their own unlived life" (based on fear)

Well, that's a keeper.
January 8, 2026 at 7:32 AM