(January 21, 2015 at 12:45 pm)Sionnach Wrote: I actually like the idea of a universal income whereby everyone receives the same amount. Unfortunately, I cannot imagine the one percent, or the majority, agreeing to it because they are too greedy and want to maintain their lavish lifestyles.
The way a universal income works is everyone gets a set amount, but you can still earn more. Implement a universal basic income right now and some people would sit at home and smoke pot all day. Others would work while there are still jobs. The ones who work would have more money than the ones who do not. There would still be rich people and poor people.
What a universal basic income does is give people control over their lives instead of having the government control it by issuing you food stamps and writing checks to your landlord, etc.
