No, it won’t.
The inner cities, especially minority majority areas, have sky high illegitimacy rates, crime and drug abuse since they lost manufacturing jobs in the 1960s after the Civil Rights era riots. Throwing trillions of dollars in reparations, welfare and various government programs have no fixed this.
The semi-rural and rural areas have been economically hollowed out by outsourcing, moving factories abroad, and competition by lower-paid illegal immigrants. They responded by adopting welfare, moving to Social Security disability, and using drugs at a growing rate. Instead of crack and marijuana, it is prescription painkillers and meth.
TWO cases in the US in our lifetimes where giving people enough money to live on didn’t lead to retraining or happy permanent vacations. Instead, it led to despair, broken families and drug abuse.
We have to find a way to re-engage these people, and we haven’t found that yet. It is the working who are more likely to volunteer, while those on welfare are permanently held in receiving “victim” status.
We have NOT yet found a replacement for the social engagement people derive from jobs.
Welfare alone did away with any decent work and responsibility ethic these minority areas ever had.
Welfare took away the need to work, and be a productive and responsible human being.
Welfare also took away/outsourced the father figure in these minority families.
Take away the welfare and the work ethic SHOULD come back.
Manufacturing and other jobs are readily available.
I'm never optimistic, but I always mention that as we move into a post-scarcity world of automation and few jobs, we might benefit from small agricultural communities. It's not about "feeding the nation" and it's not about "growing the GNP". But I think people need a community and they need to be engaged in work that they can see in front of them. I would not mind at all living in a town of 2000 people, growing a garden on an acre of land, and walking over to the local pub and drinking a nice craft brew with my neighbors. That would be a good life. And if the machines are doing most of the work far, far away, I'm fine with that.
But storing people in high-rises in the middle of cities and mailing them a check once a month just isn't a long-term solution.
Will employers begin subtracting $1,000 each month from employees paychecks? And this idiot belives that VATs are paid by the businesses? VAT means at sale not at procuction. The buyer at each stage pays the VAT. Who is the buyer at the last stage...I wonder S//