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To: proust

Autistic Elon is calling it Universal High Income now because Universal Basic Incone sounds like Oliver Twist asking for more oatmeal


6 posted on 11/19/2025 9:47:49 PM PST by MarlonRando
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To: MarlonRando
Oliver Twist asking for more oatmeal
"The room in which the boys were fed, was a large stone hall, with a copper at one end: out of which the master, dressed in an apron for the purpose, and assisted by one or two women, ladled the gruel at meal-times. Of this festive composition each boy had one porringer, and no more…"

"Please, sir, I want some more."

The food being served was gruel, a thin watery mixture of oats boiled in water or milk, typical of workhouse rations.

Oatmeal porridge of the kind we moderns eat would have been regarded as paradisical.

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21 posted on 11/20/2025 12:25:59 AM PST by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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To: MarlonRando

Housing could be built fairly cheaply.

There’s no good reason for government to hand ordinary people money for ordinary expenses.


30 posted on 11/20/2025 4:07:49 AM PST by Brian Griffin
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