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Hi Fam,

So I was at a party a couple of weeks ago, and it was great. Met a lot of interesting people, wasn't too loud or too quiet, awesome music and beautiful wines. Even the conversation, carried out in different clusters throughout the house, was interesting, light but often informative. I eventually made my way across the room and sunk deep into my host's comfy leather armchair right by window enjoying the breeze as I nursed my second (third?) glass of shiraz.

Everything was going well, that is, until one of the clusters began to debate the benefits, if any, to UBI, or Universal Basic Income. I couldn't quite tell who was arguing what point, all I could make out were words like "equality", "great", "stupid", etc.

I turned a little more towards the window, the breeze was amazing! I closed my eyes for what must have been less than a second before hearing my friend Amy's voice, "Kira, what do you think about UBI?" I bet you can imagine her tone.

I kind of froze and then started to fidget, I didn't want to talk about this, not now, I was enjoying myself! I squeezed the carpet between my toes and played with my glass of shiraz, which I almost spilled by the way.

Then reluctantly chirped, "Socialism is awesome, as long as you don't run out of rich people to take money from, amirite?" I let out a laugh, nearly spilling my wine again.

Now, you know in those movie trailers (rom-coms come to mind) where they use that record scratch sound effect for crappy comedic effect? Like "I'm pregnant!?" scccccrrrrrtttccchhhd - insert James Brown's "I feel good" here.

You get the idea, it was like that - scccccrrrrrtttccchhhd and then the cluster raced over to my comfy seat to engage me on what I just said. Without dragging this post out forever, we all agreed to disagree.

Still, I kept thinking about it. Most recently I come from a banking background so maybe I'm not creative enough to figure how exactly it would work. Then yesterday I came across the Hive account@steembasicincome blog as well as a post by Hive account@flyyingkiwi that inspired the hell out of me, you can find it here.

So, along those lines, I'd like to hold modest contest of my own.
A sort of "Babby's First Contest", if you will.
I have 2 Steem, and so i'll sponsor two people at 1 Steem each.
Like I said, it's modest, but if this gets okay engagement I'll increase the Steem and number of people sponsored each time I hold a contest, and will continue doing so for as long as there's interest and engagement, I really want this to work!

Your Challenge:

Easy. Reply to this post as to why you are in favor of or against UBI.
It doesn't matter to me, I just want to know as much as I can.
Tell me what you think, don't you dare be shy!

I'll announce the winners on Friday, May 18th

And by the way, if you want to know how to sponsor someone/enrol in Steem Basic Income, please read this insightful post here.

Thanks so much for reading this and I'm really looking forward to hearing from you!

Kira 💗