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Scott Santens

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
527 total appearances

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SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Scott Santens on UBI vs Stimulus Checks

People need money.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Scott Santens on UBI vs Stimulus Checks

They need it quickly.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Scott Santens on UBI vs Stimulus Checks

What is the fastest way to get people money?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Scott Santens on UBI vs Stimulus Checks

What is the most efficient way of doing it?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Scott Santens on UBI vs Stimulus Checks

Should we find people to give people money or should we just make sure that people get the money without any kind of...

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Scott Santens on UBI vs Stimulus Checks

middlemen involved.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Scott Santens on UBI vs Stimulus Checks

That's suddenly the discussion that we have because it's such an immediate kind of situation.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Scott Santens on UBI vs Stimulus Checks

And so whatever happens after this, I think that

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Scott Santens on UBI vs Stimulus Checks

that we're still going to see more of this.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Scott Santens on UBI vs Stimulus Checks

It's going to go back to the slow moving stuff, but it's going to be perpetually painful to the point where this pain is going to eventually lead to just people being completely fed up with this.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Scott Santens on UBI vs Stimulus Checks

I'm really worried about this because not only are we seeing this kind of immediate effects from people losing their jobs and losing their incomes,

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Scott Santens on UBI vs Stimulus Checks

But also, robots don't get sick.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Scott Santens on UBI vs Stimulus Checks

And we're already seeing people investing more in automation.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Scott Santens on UBI vs Stimulus Checks

And so if you look at the total number of people who, and supposedly that's the official numbers, those who have filed for employment, that's over, was it 35 million now?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Scott Santens on UBI vs Stimulus Checks

Or 33 million now?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Scott Santens on UBI vs Stimulus Checks

And if you look at those who lost their jobs and lost their incomes, but have not filed for unemployment yet, there's like around 12 million estimated.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Scott Santens on UBI vs Stimulus Checks

So total unemployment,

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Scott Santens on UBI vs Stimulus Checks

You're looking at just over 30 million people who are โ€“ or 40 million people who are without incomes, and they are not coming back to their jobs.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Scott Santens on UBI vs Stimulus Checks

If we were to flip back on the economy like a light switch and just open everything up, then โ€“