Posted on 03/03/2018 2:08:08 PM PST by blam
As automation and AI destroy millions of middle-income jobs, permanently forcing (primarily male) workers from the workforce, Americans are beginning to reconsider their attitudes toward a radical policy tool that’s popular among some segments of the left: Universal Basic Income.
According to CNBC, a recent poll conducted by Northeastern University and Gallup found that 48% of Americans support the measure. In an association that’s hardly a coincidence, the poll also showed that three-quarters of Americans believe machines will take away more jobs than they’ll generate…
Unsurprisingly 65% of Democrats want to see a universal basic income and 54% of people between the ages of 18 and 35 do. In comparison, just 28% of Republicans support UBI.
While proposals for universal basic income programs vary, the most common one is a system in which the federal government sends out regular checks to everyone, regardless of their earnings or employment. That system is being tested in Canada and Finland, as well as Stockton, California, which recently emerged from bankruptcy but remains mired in poverty.
Support for UBI and wariness about automation/AI have become closely linked in the public consciousness. The movement has even inspired America’s first “anti-automation” presidential candidate: New York businessman Andrew Yang is launching a “longer-than-long-shot bid” for the 2020 Democratic nomination, on a platform of adopting a “freedom dividend” (a fancy term for UBI), to help offset the impact of automation.
Advocates say all of the UBI-focused experiments being conducted are an opportunity to show that the policy could boost both productivity, as well as individual happiness and overall wellbeing.
“The claim is often made that if you give people a basic income, they’ll become lazy and stop doing work,” said Guy Standing, co-founder of the Basic Income Earth Network.
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More than half of our population are non contributors. So of course they are for it. Communism isn’t for the communists.
I can’t see where handing out welfare has made anybody less lazy or more productive. There just isn’t a free lunch.
Universal Support in Income.Let them go to work and earn it the old fashioned way.
This is why we are a republic and not a democracy. We as a society are headed to deadly trouble if we stray much further from our founding principles.
“This is the fastest, most efficient way to run out of other people’s money.”
Maybe not. Suppose we figured the amount spent per person by our various welfare agencies. Add onto that per capita overhead cost to run the agencies.
If we just gave everyone an amount that was less than the above total, and on top of that we said here’s your money, spend it wisely because government has already helped you and that’s all the help you’re going to get (from Uncle Sam). States can do what they wish but Uncle Sam isn’t going to give the states money to run their welfare agencies.
LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT
His nurse, his wife, his daughter and two sons, are with him.
He asks for two witnesses to be present and a camcorder be in place to record his last wishes.
When all is ready he begins to speak.
"My son, Bernie, I want you to take the Ocean Reef houses."
"My daughter Sybil, you take the apartments between mile markers 100 and Tavernier."
"My son, Jamie, I want you to take the offices over in the Marathon Government Center."
"Sarah, my dear wife, please take all the residential buildings on the bay side on Blackwater Sound."
The nurse and witnesses are blown away as they did not realize his extensive holdings, and as Doug slips away, the nurse says:
"Mrs. Pender, your husband must have been such a hard-working man to have accumulated all this property.
The wife replies,
"The asshole had a paper route."
Universal basic income, aka universal price hike.
Wouldn’t this be akin to those Alaskan
citizens who get a stipend from the
state from oil revenues? Just asking.
Like the Cylons?
I have already told my nieces that I can’t help them out of this mess.
All I can do is educate them well enough to survive the coming storm.
The John Conner thing in reverse.
Yeah good point. They would have to get rid of those programs to pull it off.
And what outlet is this? And CNBC is involved?
Why do we still allow bull#### articles to be posted?
I’ll take the money for nothing ONLY if the chicks are free.
Funny!
LMAO!!!
This story turns out well...watch the free movie, “Obsolete”...it is free on Amazon
Sarcasm off
Snort.
To be paid by taxing those who do work.
Robots.
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