RE: Universal basic income in the future
September 22, 2019 at 12:31 am
(This post was last modified: September 22, 2019 at 12:34 am by EgoDeath.)
I would like to see us, in the States, at least give Universal Basic Income a try. I don't think it will solve our issue with poverty (to be blunt), and I don't think it will solve the problem of automation. However, there is a very real question that we have to ask ourselves... In a future where more and more jobs are lost to automation by the month, or year, or decade, what are unskilled, uneducated people to do for work? Hell, what are skilled, educated people to do for work if their job is lost to robots?
Also, we'd have to solve the problem of deciding who gets this money. Certainly, we're not going to give it to people who live in the Midwest that make 100k+ a year, right? So who does get it?
The government is infamous for deciding that you make too much money to receive benefits; meanwhile, you're struggling to pay your bills, you're being threatened with eviction by your landlord and your car just took a shit.
I think that, no matter what, a certain amount of people are going to get fucked. And that's shitty. But, if UBI can at least put a band-aid on that, it'd be helping, potentially, tens of millions of people across the country who live in poverty.
And to anyone suggesting we can't afford a UBI, have you seen our defense budget lately?
So, in your mind, a huge portion of people living in poverty are people living in their mother's basements playing video games and watching Netflix? Or they're on the dreaded drugs?
Also, we'd have to solve the problem of deciding who gets this money. Certainly, we're not going to give it to people who live in the Midwest that make 100k+ a year, right? So who does get it?
The government is infamous for deciding that you make too much money to receive benefits; meanwhile, you're struggling to pay your bills, you're being threatened with eviction by your landlord and your car just took a shit.
I think that, no matter what, a certain amount of people are going to get fucked. And that's shitty. But, if UBI can at least put a band-aid on that, it'd be helping, potentially, tens of millions of people across the country who live in poverty.
And to anyone suggesting we can't afford a UBI, have you seen our defense budget lately?
(September 21, 2019 at 10:33 pm)onlinebiker Wrote: I suppose - if you are living in your mother's basement - playing video games half the day, and watching Netflix the other half. Or if your drug addled brain can't figure any other source of income.....
Fucking UBIers.....
Looking under the xmas trees for great free shit.
Pathetic.
So, in your mind, a huge portion of people living in poverty are people living in their mother's basements playing video games and watching Netflix? Or they're on the dreaded drugs?
If you're frightened of dying, and you're holding on, you'll see devils tearing your life away. But if you've made your peace, then the devils are really angels, freeing you from the Earth.
