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I've managed to accumulate approximately $1 US of free cryptocurrency this year (unrelated to Steemit). It's been arriving in my Manabase wallet bit by bit in weekly instalments since the first of March. I didn't fill out any captchas or surveys. I didn't have to use 'one crazy trick'. I just signed up and gave them enough information to decide that I was probably a real person. Because that's the concept behind their platform as far as I understand it. As a real person, you are deserving of at least a basic amount of income. 

I tried to explain this to a friend recently and I was reminded that not everyone feels comfortable with the idea of people being given something for nothing. I think of it more from the opposite direction: in places all around the world, people without options are doing things they would not do if they had a choice to ensure the survival of themselves and those who depend on them. Some of these things are degrading, life-threatening or just flat out wrong. We're failing as a species if that's a regular occurrence.

Of course, the money I've received from Mannabase so far hasn't improved my life noticeably. I'd be very dead if it were my only source of income right now BUT it doesn't have to remain at a low value. If you think that it shouldn't be as easy as it is for people to slip into poverty/homelessness/starvation, sign up. It's not hard. You could be a billionaire superhero with a secret identity, you could be living in extreme poverty and trying to claw your way out or anywhere in between on the spectrum. It doesn't matter. The more people who sign up and get others to sign up the better. A crypto without users can't get very far and if you receive manna that you don't need you're free to donate it to a worthy cause.

You can visit Mannabase.com to sign up on your own but with a referral link, you'll receive a little more Manna for a year (as will the person who referred you). Here's mine:

https://www.mannabase.com/?ref=9jokur13fp

I can't promise that Manna will be worth a lot of money but I like the idea and I hope that it succeeds. And I'm not even getting started on the potential for mass unemployment when robots and software take over nearly every job. The world is changing faster than I ever thought it would but projects like Mannabase give me hope that maybe that might not be such a bad thing. 
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