sandstorm https://sandstorm.io/ 's dream is to make this as easy as installing a phone app. It's still rough around the edges but I think the model is completely right and the security it offers is excellent.
It's also partly the site's culture. Not saying it's wrong, because it adds some noise and not much new info, but I've been downvoted before for posting comments like "Thanks for saying this!"
imo that's the problem - everything gets corporate poseurs so quickly now
could just be i'm out of touch and the countercultures have successfully hidden from me tho
In snapchat, you're sending messages to friends, or at the very least individuals, who you trust have not rooted their phone to log messages.
Anything put to the public internet is there forever because antisocial corporations and the few individuals who do not respect privacy can operate at scale.
Asking a normal person nicely to delete something almost always works though, especially if not deleting it is a hassle
idk why you're being downvoted, it did read like an insidious content marketing piece. At least there was a disclosure.
With that said, I've been trying to lock down my smartphone to offline-only apps + text + calls,
totally agree with the mission, I've felt so much more distractable of late
I really think the anti-student-loan argument is a red herring. Medical costs have gone up almost the same amount in the same time period without student loans.
That's a lot of the advantage of UBI in my opinion - is that it's much easier to access than the complicated welfare systems we have now, which require meeting up and consulting with lots of volunteer specialists to be sure you're doing it the right way.
I agree that getting benefits to people without an ID is a problem, but it seems very tangential to the UBI vs Status Quo debate.
The poorest will be much richer because you've given them money, almost by definition.
Student loans are problematic because they put the student in lifelong debt, before that state schools were just, state subsidized and students were given scholarships, both of which are much closer to UBI. And even so, they're still better than nothing imo, though free-school-for-all Germany style would be better still.
I share your worry about landlords jacking up prices. In a "free market" you'd expect them to compete on price but obviously that isn't the case since they have all the power and are able to set their prices as high as the renters are able to pay. That's a problem and would affect people on UBI, but could be solved by additional regulation as well, which essentially every UBI supporter is in favor of.
just fyi - this is an extremely popular take among the young and non-rich