oOo’s Lyrical Source Material: 2026.

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oOo’s Lyrical Source Material 2026.

 

Part 1 of 3 for the 16th of January: 

Shared further below is representative of a small ripple in a vast ocean of global noise oOo for oOo to lyrically capitalise on. Before then however, let’s settle the score on some of what’s so far shared in the demo version of “oOo Hello.”

oOo’s source of the acronym in latest demo and likely in the Feb 1st release, “UBI - Universal Beaurocratic Insult”, oOo himself. Source of the line “Fuck that bitch I’m almost dead”, every old timer trying to snap they grandson back into reality; sadly I never got to meet my grandfather, but his full name was left to me alone; he was an artist, immaculate visual detail. Source of “Ban your daughter from the internet”, the millions of children’s naivety exploited by parental ignorance on the dark tunnels they explore on the internet; only a dash of the knowledge I need to develop in these areas of exploitation. Source of “Shes using her alimony to get plowed in Maui by Matthew, Mark, Luke and John Maui”, many variations therein represented in Discovery, legislative revelation process for Divorce Courts in America. Source of “The greatest philosopher knew the show was dead before he walked inside.”, anyone thats coming to grips with grandpa’s words applied analogously to the right areas in life where the line of truth becomes obscured by falsity which at present, reflects many societal trends despite many too that we should be grateful for and in many ways, come off the backs of our ancestry.

And now as introduced, an Endless Well of Lyrical Material to Synthesise and Artistically Creativise.

Motivation for sharing is to encourage the knowledge, understanding and wisdom process for identity reformation, the only process that ever made our or any identity, obscured by the very patterns that make it; and therefore easily unravelled, rechannneled and relearned by turning it into a formalised mastery process.

Sample Directional Review of what’s to come for oOo:

Here’s an arsenal of verifiable, documented facts drawn from court records, government investigations, leaked internal documents, and declassified files. Th lyrical ammunition for oOo. Verifiable facts, not fringe theories.

 

The following research analysis is for my own reflections, however otherwise, it is generated by AI, a rinse and repeat pattern of AI research followed by my own reflective synthesis. Scrutinise accordingly.

The financial system rewards wealth and punishes poverty

The 2008 financial crisis exposed a two-tiered justice system that remains intact today. While 6 million American families lost their homes to foreclosure, only one banker went to prison: Kareem Serageldin of Credit Suisse, who served 30 months for mismarking bond prices. At his sentencing, the judge remarked, “It’s hard for me to believe that the only cooking of the books case is involving Mr. Serageldin.” By contrast, more than 1,100 bankers were convicted after the smaller 1980s savings and loan crisis.

The Federal Reserve’s response to 2008 tells the story in numbers: 250 billion dollars to banks versus just 46 billion dollars for foreclosure prevention. A New York Federal Reserve staff report from 2024 confirmed what critics suspected: quantitative easing widened the income gap between the top 10 percent and everyone else by raising profits and equity prices. The wealthiest 10 percent now own 89 percent of all stocks. The money printer transferred wealth upward.

Today’s concentration of power is staggering. The “Big Three” asset managers BlackRock, Vanguard, and State Street are the largest shareholders in 88 percent of S&P 500 companies. BlackRock alone manages 12.53 trillion dollars, roughly 40 percent of U.S. GDP. Federal Reserve data from 2024 shows the top 0.1 percent holds 13.9 percent of all wealth, or 22.48 trillion dollars, while the bottom 50 percent holds just 2.5 percent, or 4.1 trillion dollars spread across 66 million households. The 19 richest billionaires gained 1 trillion dollars in 2024 alone, the largest single-year wealth concentration increase ever recorded.

Student debt has become Wall Street’s latest profit center. Total student loan debt reached 1.814 trillion dollars across 42.5 million borrowers. Private lenders securitize this debt into Student Loan Asset-Backed Securities, effectively betting on borrower distress. A 2024 Senate report documented 3.9 million billing errors during the return to repayment, with only 3.3 percent of Public Service Loan Forgiveness applications approved since the program began.

 

Pharmaceutical profits built on documented deception

The Sackler family’s opioid empire represents perhaps the most documented corporate harm in American history. Court records reveal Purdue Pharma learned one doctor was known internally as “the Candyman” for prescribing extreme doses of OxyContin, yet sales representatives visited him more than 300 times. When Purdue pleaded guilty to three federal felonies in 2020, the Department of Justice settlement reached 8.3 billion dollars. Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch’s 2024 opinion described the Sacklers’ “milking program,” withdrawing 11 billion dollars, or 75 percent of company value, before bankruptcy. The final June 2025 settlement confirmed 7.4 billion dollars in payments, with more than 30 million internal documents ordered public.

The human cost was over 500,000 Americans dead from opioid overdoses. The accountability was zero Sackler family members facing criminal charges. They are permanently banned from the opioid industry, yet remain billionaires.

The FDA’s revolving door ensures industry influence. Scott Gottlieb received 559,000 dollars from drug companies before becoming FDA Commissioner from 2017 to 2019, then joined Pfizer’s board within three months of leaving, earning more than 330,000 dollars annually. Dr. Doran Fink led COVID vaccine review at the FDA, then began working at Moderna just two months after leaving. A British Medical Journal study found 58 percent of FDA hematology-oncology reviewers who left went to work for pharmaceutical companies.

Drug pricing tells its own story. Insulin cost 21 dollars per vial in 1996. By 2019, the same Humalog vial cost 332 dollars, a 1,480 percent increase, while production costs remained between 2 and 4 dollars per vial. The Federal Trade Commission sued the three largest pharmacy benefit managers in September 2024 for artificially inflating insulin prices, documenting deaths of young diabetics who rationed medication they could not afford.

Clinical trials themselves are compromised. Half of all clinical trials are never published. When pharmaceutical companies sponsor trials, 78 percent show favorable outcomes, compared to 48 percent for independent trials. A Science investigation found sponsors violated reporting laws more than 55 percent of the time, while the FDA has issued zero fines.

 

Social media platforms knowingly harm users for profit

Facebook’s internal documents leaked in 2021 are damning. One employee wrote after January 6th, “We’ve been fueling this fire for a long time and we shouldn’t be surprised it’s now out of control.” Facebook’s 2018 algorithm change gave emotional reactions five times more weight than simple likes. An internal study titled “Does Facebook reward outrage?” confirmed that more negative comments produced more engagement.

The “Carol’s Journey to QAnon” study from June 2019 showed that after a fake account followed conservative pages, it took just two days for Facebook’s algorithm to recommend QAnon content. Internal data showed 64 percent of people who joined extremist groups did so because algorithms steered them there.

Instagram’s own research on teen mental health was particularly disturbing. Internal slides stated, “We make body image issues worse for one in three teenage girls.” Thirteen percent of UK teens and six percent of US teens said their desire to kill themselves began on Instagram. Forty percent reported Instagram made them feel unattractive. Facebook knew this and buried the findings.

The U.S. Surgeon General’s 2023 advisory confirmed that more than three hours per day on social media doubles the risk of depression and anxiety symptoms in teens. The average teenager spends 3.5 hours daily on social media. Ninety-five percent of young people aged 13 to 17 use a social media platform. CDC data shows teens with more than four hours daily screen time report depression symptoms at 25.9 percent, compared to 9.5 percent for those with less.

The business model is surveillance capitalism, defined as an economic order that claims human experience as free raw material for extraction, prediction, and sales. The average Facebook user has approximately 2,000 data points collected about them. Former Facebook president Sean Parker admitted, “We knew we were creating something addictive.” Former executive Chamath Palihapitiya said, “The short-term dopamine-driven feedback loops we created are destroying how society works.”

Cambridge Analytica harvested 87 million Facebook profiles for political manipulation. Facebook settled for 725 million dollars and lost 134 billion dollars in market value. Leaked TikTok meetings confirmed China-based engineers had access to US user data, with employees stating, “Everything is seen in China.”

 

Political systems corrupted by documented money flows

Lobbying spending hit 4.4 billion dollars in 2024, a new record. The pharmaceutical industry alone spent 384.5 million dollars and more than 6.1 billion dollars since 1999. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce has spent 746 million dollars since 2015. Every quarter of 2023 and 2024 surpassed one billion dollars in lobbying.

The revolving door turns constantly. Three hundred eighty-eight former members of Congress are registered lobbyists. Billy Tauzin authored the 2003 Medicare drug bill banning price negotiation, then took a two-million-dollar-per-year job as head of PhRMA, eventually earning 11 million dollars in his final year. An American Economic Review study found lobbyists lose 24 percent of revenue when the senator they worked for leaves office.

The military-industrial complex operates with stunning opacity. The Pentagon has failed eight consecutive audits and cannot account for 63 percent of its 3.8 trillion dollars in assets. It is the only major federal agency to never pass an audit. A buried 2015 report identified 125 billion dollars in administrative waste. Lockheed Martin lost or destroyed over one million F-35 spare parts worth 85 million dollars, with the government tracking less than two percent of losses.

Dark money has exploded since Citizens United. The 2024 election saw 1.9 billion dollars in dark money, double 2020. Since 2010, 4.3 billion dollars has flowed into federal elections. Elon Musk contributed more than 250 million dollars to super PACs in 2024. One group raised 100 million dollars for Trump over four years with donors hidden.

Media consolidation limits perspective. In 1983, 50 companies controlled 90 percent of U.S. media. By 2011, just six companies controlled the same share. Forty percent of local TV stations are owned by three companies. Stanford research found Sinclair acquisitions increased national politics coverage by 25 percent at the expense of local news and produced a rightward shift.

 

Proven conspiracies that were once dismissed

MKUltra from 1953 to 1973 involved CIA mind-control experiments using LSD on unwitting Americans. Twenty thousand documents survived despite destruction orders. Over 30 institutions participated. Victims were subjected to electroshock at extreme levels. Canada paid settlements, and no perpetrators were criminally prosecuted.

The Tuskegee Syphilis Study ran from 1932 to 1972. Six hundred Black men were told they were treated for “bad blood” while syphilis was deliberately left untreated, even after penicillin became standard. Dozens died, families were infected, and children were born with congenital disease. The study lasted 40 years.

The Gulf of Tonkin incident in 1964 was fabricated. Declassified NSA documents showed intelligence was skewed to justify war. This led to full U.S. involvement in Vietnam and 58,220 American deaths.

COINTELPRO from 1956 to 1971 targeted civil rights groups. The FBI sent Martin Luther King Jr. a letter urging suicide. Fred Hampton was killed using FBI-supplied intelligence.

The tobacco industry denied nicotine addiction under oath in 1994 despite internal documents proving knowledge of cancer risks since at least 1961. A 2006 federal ruling confirmed decades of deception.

 

Food and environmental systems designed for profit over health

Factory farming uses 66 percent of medically important antibiotics in the U.S. Antibiotic resistance causes three million illnesses and 35,000 deaths annually. Four companies dominate meat processing. Real wages declined 48 percent since 1982.

Bill Gates owns roughly a quarter million acres of U.S. farmland. Bayer controls one-third of the global seed market. Monsanto sued farmers for seed saving and won Supreme Court backing.

Nestlé paid minimal fees to extract massive water volumes while Flint residents paid high bills for toxic water.

Private jets emitted 15.6 million tonnes of CO2 in 2023. Nearly half of flights were under 500 kilometers. Billionaire emissions equal centuries of average human output.

Apple secretly throttled iPhones, settling for hundreds of millions. Printer ink costs exceed luxury perfumes. A 2024 listeria outbreak killed ten after regulators documented dozens of violations.

 

Australian audiences recognize these failures

Robodebt unlawfully extracted 746 million dollars from Australians. A Royal Commission found systemic failure. No criminal charges followed.

Indigenous deaths in custody reached a 45-year high. Hundreds have died since the 1991 Royal Commission, with most recommendations ignored.

Australia has the most concentrated media ownership among surveyed democracies. Public broadcasting has been defunded.

Housing affordability collapsed. Home ownership among young adults plummeted while prices doubled.

Mining companies dominate political donations, including the largest single donation in Australian history.

 

2024 to 2026 revelations the audience will recognize

Sean Combs was convicted and sentenced in 2025 after federal racketeering and trafficking charges.

Boeing’s safety failures led to deaths, whistleblower fatalities, and rejected plea deals.

Sam Bankman-Fried received a 25-year sentence after billions vanished from FTX.

DOGE data scandals exposed massive security breaches and intimidation of whistleblowers.

Google was ruled an illegal monopolist in search and advertising. Massive fines followed.

AI deepfakes enabled multimillion-dollar fraud. Executives admitted reality itself is now suspect.

Conclusion

The documented facts here reveal systemic patterns most people would dismiss as conspiracy if they were not proven. One banker jailed while six million lost homes. Half a million dead from opioids with zero Sackler convictions. Algorithms driving extremism. Billions in lobbying. Eight failed Pentagon audits.

The through-line is accountability asymmetry. Systems protect concentrated power while extracting from everyone else. The facts are public record. The challenge is not finding the truth but forcing it to be heard.

For confrontational lyrics, juxtaposition is enough. Eleven billion milked, five hundred thousand dead. One banker jailed, six million homeless. Three and a half hours online, one in three girls harmed. The facts already speak. The artist makes them unavoidable. oOo’s confrontation then… is already destiny.

Edited Friday at 09:29 AM by oOo

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Part 2 of 3 for the 16th of January:

These research analyses are for my own reflections, however otherwise, they are generated by AI. Scrutinise accordingly. A rinse and repeat pattern of AI research followed by my own reflective synthesis.

Systemic Truths: Research for Confrontational Art

Modern life is shaped by systems that demand obedience from ordinary people while insulating power from consequence. Whether bureaucratic, familial, digital, or philosophical, these systems share the same structure: accountability flows downward, protection flows upward. What follows is a compilation of documented facts—court records, government investigations, peer-reviewed research, and declassified material—that expose how this structure actually operates. None of this is speculative. The evidence exists in public record. What’s missing is the willingness to connect it.

Across domains, the pattern repeats. Programs designed to help function as instruments of control. Trauma passes through generations more efficiently than wisdom. Children navigate spaces their parents barely understand. Divorce courts drain families while claiming neutrality. Philosophers who point this out are labeled dangerous, dismissed, or punished. The spectacle isn’t hidden. It’s normalized.

 

UBI and the quiet violence of bureaucracy

Universal Basic Income trials have already delivered their verdict. Finland’s 2017–2018 randomized control trial gave 2,000 unemployed citizens €560 per month for two years, unconditionally. The results, published in the American Economic Journal, showed no reduction in employment. What changed was mental health: lower stress, higher trust, and improved outlook on the future.

Kenya’s GiveDirectly program, designed by MIT economists including Nobel laureate Abhijit Banerjee, tracked over 14,000 households across 295 villages. Cash transfers produced a 57% increase in business assets, a 38% increase in earnings, and a 48% reduction in infant mortality. Stockton, California’s SEED program found full-time employment increased by 12% among recipients—double the control group.

The alternative—means-tested welfare—tells a different story. Research by Pamela Herd and Donald Moynihan shows that only 30–80% of eligible people actually receive means-tested benefits, compared to nearly universal uptake in programs like Social Security. The gap isn’t laziness; it’s design. Administrative burden operates through three pressures: learning costs (finding out programs exist), compliance costs (documentation and verification), and psychological costs (stigma, surveillance, loss of autonomy). A 2020 study in the Journal of Affective Disorders found that welfare participation itself correlates with increased depression, driven by social labeling and humiliation.

Australia’s Robodebt scheme exposed this logic in its most brutal form. The Royal Commission documented 794,000 unlawful debts raised against 526,000 people, with $746 million wrongfully recovered before the program collapsed. The system relied on income averaging—mathematically indefensible when 93% of affected recipients had variable earnings. The burden of proof was reversed: citizens were forced to prove they didn’t owe money. Parents testified that their children died by suicide after receiving automated debt notices. The Commissioner’s conclusion was blunt: the system was neither fair nor legal, and it traumatized people “on the off-chance they might owe money.”

David Graeber’s argument in Bullshit Jobs adds context. A YouGov survey found 37% of UK workers believe their job makes no meaningful contribution to the world. Subsequent academic work confirmed that feeling useless at work correlates strongly with depression and anxiety. Bureaucratic expansion doesn’t exist for efficiency alone. It disciplines time, drains dignity, and normalizes meaninglessness.

 

Trauma passes easily; wisdom does not

Intergenerational trauma is no longer theoretical. Rachel Yehuda’s research at Mount Sinai demonstrated that Holocaust exposure altered stress-related gene expression not only in survivors, but in their children—who never experienced the trauma directly. Cortisol patterns linked to PTSD appeared in both generations, particularly when mothers had PTSD during pregnancy. Similar effects were observed in children born to women exposed to the World Trade Center attacks.

Genetics load the hardware; epigenetics runs the software. Trauma rewrites stress responses, sometimes before a child is even born.

Approaching death clarifies rather than confuses. Terror Management Theory, tested across hundreds of experiments, shows that mortality awareness reshapes behavior. Laura Carstensen’s work on Socioemotional Selectivity Theory explains why: when time feels limited, people stop chasing status and novelty and prioritize emotional truth. Older adults report fewer negative emotions, better emotional regulation, and greater well-being despite declining health. What’s often dismissed as “having no fucks left to give” is actually value clarification under time pressure.

Yet the transmission of wisdom is collapsing. Among the Tsimane’ people of the Amazon, researchers documented a 9–26% loss in medicinal plant knowledge over just nine years—roughly 1–3% per year. Similar losses appear across oral cultures when elders die without passing knowledge on. When wisdom disappears, identity goes with it.

Grandparent-grandchild bonds matter here. Studies consistently show grandparents provide greater emotional stability and warmth than parents under stress. Strong bonds improve emotional regulation, reduce behavioral problems, and build resilience. But modern life fractures these ties through geographic mobility, nuclear family isolation, and institutional care.

Creative drive shows partial heritability. Twin studies suggest openness and creative motivation are strongly inherited, while actual performance depends heavily on environment. Erik Erikson called this generativity: the drive to guide the next generation. One study found generativity accounted for 78% of whether older adults faced death with wisdom rather than despair. Wisdom doesn’t transmit automatically. It has to be given, and conditions increasingly prevent that.

 

Children walk corridors their parents can’t see

Online child exploitation has reached industrial scale. In 2024, the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children received 20.5 million CyberTipline reports containing 62.9 million files of suspected abuse material. Online enticement reports increased 192% in a single year. Reports involving generative AI rose over 1,300%. Child sex trafficking reports climbed 55%.

Financial sextortion is now routine. NCMEC processes around 100 sextortion reports per day. The FBI linked at least 20 confirmed suicides to sextortion between 2021 and 2023, mostly involving boys aged 14–17. NCMEC is aware of at least 36 teenage boys who have died by suicide since 2021 due to sextortion. Victims as young as eight have been identified.

Parents are largely unprepared. UK and Australian research shows parents consistently overestimate their understanding of children’s online lives. Nearly one-third of Australian children have encountered explicit sexual material online. Two-thirds of teenagers report exposure to seriously harmful content, including self-harm and suicide. Twenty-three percent of UK adults lack basic digital skills.

Platforms remain structurally unaccountable. Australia’s eSafety Commissioner found Apple and YouTube do not track abuse reports or response times. Apple does not use known hash-matching tools on iCloud. Discord cited cost as a barrier to deploying livestream harm detection. Internal Meta documents revealed the company calculated a lifetime advertising value of $270 for a 13-year-old user and allowed up to 17 violations before account removal. Independent audits found only 21% of Instagram’s advertised teen safety features worked as described.

Algorithms amplify harm. Meta-analysis across 151 audits found 8–10% of recommendations across major platforms were actively harmful. TikTok studies show misogynistic content quadrupling within five days of use. Amnesty International documented algorithmic pathways toward self-harm content. Most CyberTipline reports originate outside the U.S., highlighting how global the problem has become—and how national regulation lags behind.

 

Divorce as extraction, not resolution

Divorce is an industry. Estimates place its annual value between $13 and $50 billion in the U.S., with broader estimates reaching $100 billion once all associated costs are included. Contested divorces routinely cost $5,000–$35,000 per party. High-asset cases go far higher.

Economist Jay Zagorsky found marriage correlates with a 77% increase in net worth compared to single counterparts, while divorce correlates with a 77% loss. A California study found living standards decline for 40% of men and 75% of women post-divorce.

Custody outcomes reveal consistent patterns. In the U.S., 80% of one-parent households are headed by mothers. Nationally, mothers receive about 65% of custody time, though state variation is wide. Surveys show attorneys perceive maternal bias far more often than judges acknowledge it. An Australian study analyzing over 2,500 custody judgments found judicial language reinforced gender expectations, with male judges focusing heavily on procedural compliance.

High-conflict divorces cause disproportionate harm. Though they represent a minority, they affect over a million children annually in the U.S. Children from these cases show higher rates of PTSD symptoms, anxiety, depression, and long-term behavioral issues. Research consistently shows it is conflict—not divorce itself—that causes the damage.

Divorce ranks second only to death of a spouse on the Holmes-Rahe Stress Scale. Roughly 40% of recently divorced individuals experience clinical anxiety, and the risk of depression more than doubles. Physical health consequences follow. Yet most people cope adequately; the system extracts the most from those already least equipped to endure it.

 

The philosopher knows the show is dead before entry

Plato described it first. Prisoners mistake shadows for reality. One escapes, sees the sun, returns to help—and is rejected. Socrates followed the script to execution.

Marx diagnosed structural illusion. Lukács formalized false consciousness. Gramsci mapped cultural hegemony. Debord described a world where social life is mediated by images, where being collapses into having, and having into appearing. Baudrillard pushed further, into simulacra without origin—copies of nothing.

The data now matches the theory. The 2025 Edelman Trust Barometer found 61% of people globally believe institutions serve narrow interests. Only 36% believe life will be better for the next generation. In France, that number drops to 9%.

Asch’s conformity experiments showed 75% of people will deny obvious reality to match a group. Meta-analysis confirms the effect persists. Add one dissenter and conformity collapses to near zero.

Echo chambers don’t just exclude information; they poison trust. As C. Thi Nguyen notes, evidence alone can reinforce belief if the system is designed to discredit outsiders.

Whistleblowers prove the cost. Ellsberg, Felt, Whitehurst—each punished first, vindicated later. The pattern is stable: exposure is criminalized, reform is delayed, gratitude is rare.

 

What the evidence shows

Across every domain, accountability is asymmetric. Welfare recipients must prove innocence; governments face little consequence for harm. Children bear digital risk; platforms profit regardless. Families exhaust themselves in courts that claim neutrality. Whistleblowers are prosecuted; institutions endure.

The data isn’t hidden. It’s ignored.

Trauma transmits efficiently. Wisdom requires effort, time, and proximity—conditions modern systems disrupt. Confrontational art exists to close the gap between what is documented and what is acknowledged. One voice is enough to fracture conformity. The danger has always been the same: seeing clearly, and saying so.

 

Edited Friday at 09:29 AM by oOo

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Interestingly, I just noticed in the AI report directly above, despite my own projected negative assumptions based on the outcomes it’s shared it seems there’s at least in part, a clear bias towards framing UBI as an overall positive.

What does that mean for oOo? Another AI research analyses of course to challenge its obvious biases, this is why I stated on both accounts in each of the last two posts and posts to come in this particular journal, “Scrutinise accordingly”. Be vehemently rebellious when it comes to AI generated content. 

Part 3 to now come for the 16th of January.

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Okay. Ha.

It dropped this after dismantling some of its biases.

Seeing my side to the story, “UBI - Universal Bureaucratic Insult”, as per one of the lyrical quotes analysed in the demo release of “oOo Hello”, the first post of this journal following the first release of the demo in my main journal yesterday. Partially it sees.

Let’s checkout how it simultaneously views my side of the story while concealing things it doesn’t want to tell me. 

Even this, as stated, scrutinise accordingly as it is AI, these shares are purely for my own reflective synthesis, make of it for your own creative purposes. Best wishes.

 

Part 3 of 3 Research Analyses for January 16th:

Universal Basic Income: the architecture of dependence

UBI is often framed as liberation, but it may instead become one of the most effective systems of population control ever built. The same tech leaders accelerating job displacement promote UBI as the solution. Central bankers openly describe programmable money in terms of “absolute control.” History offers warnings, from Roman grain doles to company scrip, that unconditional payments tend to evolve into instruments of conditional obedience. When income is guaranteed but controlled externally, dependence replaces autonomy.

Nearly half of U.S. jobs are considered vulnerable to automation according to Oxford researchers, while the executives driving that automation publicly advocate UBI. Sam Altman’s own multi-million-dollar UBI study concluded that the policy failed to address deeper structural problems, even as OpenAI continues accelerating the displacement it claims UBI will remedy. At the same time, the Bank for International Settlements has stated that central bank digital currencies would give authorities absolute control over how money is used. When income flows through programmable systems controlled by institutions with enforcement power, “unconditional” becomes conditional by design.

The disappearance of work has consequences that go far beyond income. The Negative Income Tax experiments conducted in the United States between 1968 and 1980 showed consistent reductions in labor participation: husbands worked less, wives worked significantly less, and single mothers withdrew the most. For every thousand dollars distributed, earned income fell sharply, meaning large public spending produced relatively small net gains. These outcomes reflected rational responses to incentives, not laziness.

The psychological effects are more severe than the economic ones. Angus Deaton and Anne Case documented over one hundred thousand annual “deaths of despair” in the United States, concentrated among populations that lost stable work and purpose. Viktor Frankl’s work on meaning demonstrated that humans require struggle toward goals they perceive as worthwhile. Removing productive purpose does not free people; it corrodes them. Similar patterns appear among affluent youth. Studies of high-income suburban adolescents show depression rates far above normal, driven by a sense of being unnecessary. Lottery winners display the same pattern: permanent withdrawal from work without corresponding gains in happiness.

The advocacy of UBI by tech leaders presents an obvious conflict of interest. Executives whose companies automate labor promote guaranteed income as a social stabilizer while continuing to profit from displacement. Academic analysis has described this as a strategy to neutralize backlash rather than genuine reform. One peer-reviewed paper characterized this advocacy as symbolic violence: offering cash while entrenching divisions between those who own productive systems and those reduced to recipients.

Altman’s own large-scale UBI trial published in 2024 found that recipients worked fewer hours, showed no meaningful improvement in job quality, education, or health, accumulated more debt, and in some cases ended with lower net worth than the control group. The conclusion acknowledged that UBI failed to address root causes, yet enthusiasm within the tech sector remained unchanged. The implicit message was clear: if work disappears, people are expected to accept an allowance rather than demand structural change.

When UBI is paired with programmable digital currency, the implications escalate. Central bankers have stated openly that digital currencies allow authorities to control rules governing money and enforce them technologically. This is not theoretical. Pilot programs have already implemented expiration dates on digital funds and restricted where they can be spent. European regulators acknowledge that such systems can limit purchases, impose penalties, or enforce incentives automatically.

China’s social credit system illustrates how financial access becomes behavioral leverage. Millions of citizens have been barred from travel without due process, often without formal charges or notification. Civil liberties groups warn that embedding such controls into currency itself would place surveillance infrastructure directly into everyday life. Polling shows that a strong majority of Americans oppose this direction once its implications are understood.

History shows where this leads. Company towns offered housing and stability while stripping workers of independence, trapping them through debt, surveillance, and control over daily life. Modern parallels are emerging as large corporations integrate housing, education pipelines, and employment into closed ecosystems. Economists have described this as a return to feudal dynamics, where markets are no longer free but administratively engineered by platform owners.

UBI also risks becoming a transfer to asset owners rather than workers. If everyone receives a fixed monthly payment, landlords can raise rents accordingly, capturing the benefit without improving living conditions. Without land reform or rent controls, guaranteed income inflates costs rather than freedom. This pattern has been observed repeatedly in history, including by policymakers who documented rent increases following toll or tax relief.

There is also the danger of subsidizing low-wage exploitation. Millions of full-time workers already rely on public assistance because their employers do not pay living wages. UBI risks scaling this subsidy across the entire labor market, allowing corporations to externalize responsibility for worker survival. Some UBI programs explicitly describe their goal as encouraging acceptance of low-paying work rather than improving its quality.

Politically, cash transfers reliably increase support for incumbents who control distribution. From ancient Rome to modern welfare programs, whoever administers benefits gains electoral advantage. Studies across multiple countries show persistent increases in vote share tied to transfer programs. Universal income amplifies this effect by tying the entire population to a single payment infrastructure.

Many UBI proposals attempt to fund universality by dismantling existing social programs. Under these models, vulnerable households lose healthcare, housing support, and targeted aid in exchange for flat payments that leave them worse off. Analyses consistently show that replacing targeted systems with universal cash redistributes income upward and increases inequality.

UBI experiments themselves cannot resolve these concerns. Short-term pilots do not replicate permanent dependence. Participants behave differently when payments are temporary and uncertainty remains. Long-term effects on work, meaning, political power, and compliance cannot be inferred from limited trials.

The convergence of factors is difficult to ignore. Automation removes work. The architects of automation promote UBI. Digital currencies enable enforcement. Historical precedents show how dependency is leveraged. Political systems reward those who control distribution. Across ideological lines, critics identify the same structural risks.

Whether UBI becomes relief or restraint depends entirely on who controls it, how it is delivered, what it replaces, and what structural reforms accompany it. Without decentralization, privacy, asset reform, and genuine alternatives to dependency, guaranteed income risks guaranteeing something else instead: compliance, passivity, and the quiet acceptance of a system where survival is permitted but autonomy is optional.

 

 

Edited Friday at 10:04 AM by oOo

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Slight Plan Change For This Journal: Mainly a Documentation of Monthly Influences.

Where void meets matter, moving forward I will just use this space to document influences over the last month as a side by side reflection with my main journal. AI has proven both its utility and why it doesn’t deserve signature on any space within my journals outside of being employed as an extra on the stage set of “oOo Love”; I was thinking… A future song perhaps?

Reflective of the goal of running an open accountability check, as well as operative of the noted KUW (new acronym so don’t copy and paste that in the search of this journal) feedback loop. This endeavour also reflects the indirect goal of demonstrative evidence and influence of KUW with respect to identify formation and change overtime therein following its purposeful implementation.

Clearly oOo writes better than AI, just saying.

That said, today’s unexpected influence was a poem by newly encountered Judith Wright; Harp and the King, 1953.

Judith is a beautiful writer, I immediately sensed the feminine as soon as I began reading blindfolded as to its origins. She carries a delicate tone throughout, capturing melody through feeling that meets the relationship between writer, characters and flow juxtaposed. Judith is better at this area of writing compared to myself.

 

——— o ——— O ——— o ———

 

Stay resilient to your vision for the rest of January you’ve set for larger 2026.

Catch Feb 1st.

 

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Edited Friday at 11:27 AM by oOo

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15 hours ago, oOo said:

Slight Plan Change For This Journal: Mainly a Documentation of Monthly Influences.

Where void meets matter, moving forward I will just use this space to document influences over the last month as a side by side reflection with my main journal. AI has proven both its utility and why it doesn’t deserve signature on any space within my journals outside of being employed as an extra on the stage set of “oOo Love”; I was thinking… A future song perhaps?

Reflective of the goal of running an open accountability check, as well as operative of the noted KUW (new acronym so don’t copy and paste that in the search of this journal) feedback loop. This endeavour also reflects the indirect goal of demonstrative evidence and influence of KUW with respect to identify formation and change overtime therein following its purposeful implementation.

Clearly oOo writes better than AI, just saying.

That said, today’s unexpected influence was a poem by newly encountered Judith Wright; Harp and the King, 1953.

Judith is a beautiful writer, I immediately sensed the feminine as soon as I began reading blindfolded as to its origins. She carries a delicate tone throughout, capturing melody through feeling that meets the relationship between writer, characters and flow juxtaposed. Judith is better at this area of writing compared to myself.

 

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Stay resilient to your vision for the rest of January you’ve set for larger 2026.

Catch Feb 1st.

 

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For anyone struggling, With all my visits to the hospital, the seizures, all I had the power to do was to think about my actions more than a future I wasn’t able to inject confidence on arriving to an external fantasy where present reality only planted the seed of denial. The absence of the hope for the long term future of the past, combined with the gratitude for the present actions that I could take in the moment, re-inspired and paved the way for how I would re-architecture my understanding of myself and the identity that creates the supplementary graphics card for self-perception. The point is clear, one must place their stake in the sand where the self can do so, and they re-measure where to do that relative to the goggles of perception that they’re wearing. Rather than struggling against a current, they will themselves angular to either momentum. For each human, this adjacent curve is different for each of us.

That said, I now prioritise having a vision for my actions more than I do their outcomes or any greater outcome. A vision for outcomes bound to identity I’ve found, only makes it stronger, suppressing its natural calling towards transformation through right action. Actions are measurable, and it’s outcomes become the perceptions identity names itself after anyway. An identity constrained by ‘winning’, loses the war on the terrain for the true self, battling a war based on projection, rejecting and fighting against responsibility for the sole war within. These finer points will be unravelled February 1st, where I re-write and reconcile my understandings of identity, while in that process creating a useable blueprint that repaints the way consciousness should be meeting with the contents of reality in the context of persons growth and transformation. Many people are confused by the ‘distinction space’ between identity, ego and self in the context of the natural life process of change and growth and therefore changes to the first two, while an unravelling of the third. My goal will be to solve these distinctions, establishing the opportunity for positive disillusionment here for the reader faster than how it has occurred for me, in doing so, a pathway towards deeper and fastest growth. We grow our identity we don’t bind it. We bind closer to the self and the health that makes it, and this process of mastery alone defines the organic plane of transformation the self wills only itself, not it’s attachment to any belief within identity, towards the personal evolution present human ideas surrounding the topic centre around. To have a vision solely for one’s actions, is to have a vision solely for the parts that interconnect the machinery that makes them. Heart, mind and soul nonetheless.