Posted on 03/03/2018 2:08:08 PM PST by blam
That's about the biggest worry I have these days. And....I won't be around for Universal Basic Income.
You all figure it out.
BS
This is the fastest, most efficient way to run out of other peoples money. Venezuela, here we come!
the people will support it until they find out how much it’ll cost them.
Yup.
I tell my Saturday night poker playing buddies that they don't know how close we are....to AI & the robots
I’d like to see the questions asked and which “Americans” were polled.
Obvious horse manure; income has diminishing marginal utility.
“Today I’m a retired chip-maker and he’s a physicist.”
Computer or buffalo?
There are a lot of stupid people who think this is a good idea. It’s not being tested! IT IS IMPOSSIBLE to test a UNIVERSAL basic income on a LIMITED number of people. Universal not = limited. Obviously the limited test is going to produce a lot of happy people who go on TV to brag about the wonderful things they were able to do with their new free money, while the folks who paid for it in taxes are not interviewed.
I will vote for a Universal Basic Income, on these conditions:
1. All welfare, social security, ALL social net programs are eliminated by constitutional amendment.
2. The UBI payment is equal amount to every 18 year old American citizen.
3. A Constitutionally Limited 10% Flat Tax is enacted on all income, including the UBI. All other Federal Taxes are Constitutionally prohibited.
In other words, people want to be slaves.
The Universal Basic Income would mean everyone was a slave to the government. If they don’t like your religion, politics or skin color they’d give you less.
It would ruin education, after all why study to educate yourself if you’re going to get paid anyway? This would add to the power that the super wealthy elite have over the masses because after a generation or two there would be nobody with the skills to overthrow them even if they wanted too.
Evil, evil, evil, the idea is simply evil.
I was making chips (1967) before they were used in computers. So....I'll say silicon chips, semiconductors.
I had a neighbor in Houston who worked at Frito-Lay, he said he was in chips too.
Well, all those that don’t want to be tested, I’ll volunteer to take their place.
Wealth is being artificially concentrated into the hands of those who control the markets and intellectual property rights. This is exploitative and operates against natural law.
While I think UBI will fail due to human nature, we need to find a better way to compensate citizens who have forfeited our rights under natural law to enrich those who can easily and freely manipulate markets and currencies, and those who exploit intellectual property with perpetual patents and illegal monopolies.
Personal safety, security, and self-defense are in play as well.
At the heart is technological progression toward AI and robots that can do most everything humans can.
This tech needs to be open-sourced.
God protect us from these morons.
When the computer is down,
the buffalo is empty. Or something...
Sorry, I just couldn’t resist.
In theory, the UBI would replace all other social support spending, thus putting zillions of government employees who administer all of it out of work.
However, in practice, as soon as the first meth addict let her child starve while she spent her money on drugs, the whole nanny-state system would start back up again. Inflation would take the UBI into account, and the status quo would run on with slightly different numbers.
There’s a reason they call economics “The Dismal Science.”
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