2. ORU Universal Basic Income
At the heart of ORU’s passion and advocacy for a better world and the ability to live a more dignified life, lies ORU Basic Universal Income or ORU UBI.
Universal Basic Income, also called unconditional basic income or citizens income, is an old and established concept going back to the time of the Renaissance, when humanism and the Protagorian perspective that “man is the measure of all things” manifested itself in all aspects of life. Not surprisingly it originated from Florence, Italy. Traditionally UBI has been viewed as a form of social security whereby all citizens or residents of a country regularly receive an unconditional sum of money. In the past six decades, numerous countries and think tanks have conducted a variety of social and cultural experiments involving the implementation of Universal Basic Income and while everybody agreed that a basic guaranteed income would be beneficial, almost all disagreed about the integration methodology.
The problem with general and traditional UBI thinking, is the assumption that the government provides it and therefor it becomes akin to the social redistribution of wealth. The most profound method of doing this is by raising taxes. Socially and culturally this doesn’t work and it will never work. You cannot turn capitalism into socialism without paying a huge price.
The principal members of the ORU team have hundreds of combined years of experience in the areas of technology, technology development, software development, robotics, artificial intelligence and on-demand manufacturing. To them, it became clear many years ago that an increase in general automation would have a direct proportionate effect on jobs and employment. To put it bluntly, automation and robotics would displace and inevitably eliminate millions of jobs. Overall efficiency increases, product prices go down, all at the expense of the labor force. This, in turn, significantly affects the economy and the ability for a person to live a dignified life.
The “golden age of industrial automation” and the influence of social media on the younger generations is dramatically changing the manner by which “work ethic” is perceived. Playing a video game 30 years ago might have been perceived as a useless, albeit pleSPAM BANble pass time. Today, the gaming industry is a billion dollar industry and top gamers can earn millions just playing video games competitively.
Social media influencers barely out of their teens, can earn thousands simply relating products and services to their loyal followers. But for most people, this rapidly growing and changing information technology landscape is a potential human labor death sentence. This progress of efficiency does not discriminate. It affects the educated and the un-educated alike. How will these millions of people get by? How will they afford food, shelter, transportation, medical bills?
Universal Basic Income is the answer but only provided in the right format. UBI has to be a win-win situation. It has to make sense for the giver, as much as it has to make sense for the receiver.
ORU Basic Universal Income completely redefines this concept by radically altering the method of distribution. Rather than being dependent on government, ORU UBI is paid directly to ORU Members by the ORU network. It does so by distributing nearly 90% of all income that is derived from the services and products it provides to the ORU Membership.
Effectively, ORU pays its members for their participation. It pays them through what the network calls: Advocacy and Social Sharing Marketing. As ORU Members utilize the tools and benefits made available to them through the network, they also get “rewarded” for doing so. Literally a “thank you” for participating.
This proposes a unique realization. If, after the coverage of the expenses to run the global operation, the network pays the remainder of funds back to the members, effectively re-distributing the now discretionary funds owned by the network, very much adhering to the core fundamentals of Universal Basic Income, does this mean that the network in principal does not fulfill the promise of profit capitalism by keeping as much of the profit it can earn?
This realization is absolutely correct and it has given rise to a term coined by our Founder and Chief Architect, Nick VandenBrekel aptly named: The Impossibility of Intent.
The impossibility of intent defines the difficulty or near impossibility of executing non-government based Basic Universal Income as it relates to a corporate entity’s determination or resolve to redistribute income they have earned during the normal course of business.
Here are a few examples: What if Facebook would decide to pay almost all it earned back to everybody with a Facebook page? What if Google would pay the majority of what it earned back to everybody with a Gmail address? What if Apple would pay the lion share of their profits back to everybody with an IPhone? Crazy right??
In fact it is not crazy, it is impossible. Most large corporations are publicly traded and have numerous fiduciary responsibilities to shareholders, financial stake holders and banks. Even if these corporations had the “intent” to re-distribute their wealth, they would be in violation of almost all their fiscal obligations. The very idea would be preposterous! From this comes an anthropological paradox. The people who are advocating Universal Basic Income today, some of the wealthiest men and women in the world, can only do so in the traditional sense of government distribution of wealth. The paradox comes from the fact that while they are incredible advocates of the basic concept, their own companies cannot or will not commit to re-distributing the bulk of their wealth to the people they serve.
So how then how does ORU do it? Very simple, ORU is not a publicly traded organization, it has none of the traditional fiduciary obligations that are inherit to most large companies. It made a decision. A profound decision to change peoples lives. The realization that by giving back, you get so much more in return. It keeps enough to operate and then gives back to those who make the network a success.
Lacking the ability to live a dignified life profoundly changes a person’s brain chemistry. While under great financial stress, the individual’s survival instinct is greatly amplified. It becomes so strong, in fact, that the areas of social interaction, imagination, creativity, love and joy are deeply suppressed. Survival instinct is directly connected to the degrading of emotions. Fight or flight is not the only required response in the face of danger. Emotions related to the inability to pay bills, to care for a child or loved one, to provide for ones family, exhibit themselves as fear, guilt, shame, anger and grief. This change in brain chemistry leaves lasting trauma which, in turn, compromises our immune system and our ability to deal with every day situations. In other words, it makes us sick and unable to function as contributing citizens to our community.
So yes, Universal Basic Income is the answer to a rapidly evolving tech based society. Most scholars, researchers and successful entrepreneurs will agree on it. But it is the execution that matters most. We need to make a difference today. We have to commit to helping others now.
In June of 2015, voters in Switzerland overwhelmingly rejected a proposal to introduce a guaranteed basic income for all its citizens. Critics of the measure said that disconnecting the link between work done and money earned would have been detrimental to society. What they missed out on is the fact that 50% of the work that is done is generally unpaid. It’s called “care work”, work done at home, in the community.
The following countries are all currently conducting experiments with Universal Basic Income: Kenya’s “Give Directly” charity, Finland, Oakland, California (Y Combinator), Utrecht, Netherlands, Ontario, Canada Mincome Experiment, India, Italy and others soon to follow. Universal Basic Income will become a fact of life and it will affect millions of people around the world.
ORU has taken an aggressive and leading role in this new frontier. With advocacy for a better life in mind, we ask our members to share the potential of ORU UBI with others. Together we can create a better world, we can link communities one transaction at a time and we can change lives, one person at a time.
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