Posted on 05/11/2016 12:32:23 PM PDT by GilGil
Imagine if everyone was guaranteed healthcare and an income floor. People would still pursue their calling in life. In fact, they could do so more freely with more creativity and daring without the fear of not making ends meet. It would unleash the enormous creative potential that lays dormant within the hearts and minds of so many office workers, toiling away as their best ideas and dreams wither away.
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The person that wrote this is an idiot.
Nothing will ever be enough for people this greedy.
Post of the Day. Well said!
I’m one of them. Cut SSI. Cut TANF. Slash and burn HHS food stamps. Get rid of WIC. Kill SSD. Nix free school lunches. Kill a gazillion welfare programs in favor of a single program. Watch anyone that cuts a check on the first and is bankrupt by the fifth depend on family. Give me a flat tax. Maybe Friedman wasn’t bonkers.
I’d rather it happen before the riots that accompany %50 unemployment due to robo-nano-3D print-AI-globalist-whatever revolution but I’m not picky.
How disturbing is it that -conservative- economists are passing around an unemployment rate of 50+? I don’t see the family surviving that.
I repeat...ten bucks says that Anna's never worked a day in her life! ;-)
Writing poetry. Learning to speak Klingon.
Who the heck would go into bricklaying or roofing or anything else difficult, but productive?
It’s YOUR fault this is happening :) That professor probably took your paper and ran to the next social event to share the new idea of an amazing new fair society.
Nothing is new anymore. About 40 years ago the Democratic mantra was to pay each adult in the country about $500 a month. I was doing contract work in El Paso at the time and since it was an election year this became a topic of discussion. I said I would welcome that because my wife and I would be getting about $1,000 a month. At the time I was making around $1,200 a month. One of the other persons on the project became irate. He said I must keep working so I could pay the taxes for those not working. We never spoke to each other again.
Summers in Rangoon, luge lessons. In the spring we’d make meat helmets.
Funny, those are the exact same things I'd do for a person if I wanted to ruin him for life.
I don’t make the rules around here but this article should have had a BARF ALERT attached to it. IMO. :-)
I am so with you! Glad to see I’m not the only conservative in the world who thinks this way. If we can’t get rid of all the billion little redundant programs outright (and let’s be honest - we can’t as things stand) then let’s at least make it way better.
Yes we wouldn’t end up any better socially, but the cost savings on all the cut programs would run into the 8 digits.
I replied to an earlier message in this forum listing the Dim idea 40 years ago of $500 to each adult.
This one is even better. Myself, my wife, and four children wold amount to 2600 + 2600 + 2400 a month. $7,600 a month or about $90,000 a year. I could do that, no problem. How do I change citizenship to Swiss?
“With the automation of the industry and service sectors (ironically sped up by demands for increases in minimum wage), who’s going to be left with a job to earn money to buy anything?”
It is being overhyped for the benefit of the Demo party and their fondest wishes for a universal income. They have been working on this since the 1970s. One of Ted Kennedy’s favorite programs which never happened.
Some tasks will be done by robots but not all. Much of the switch over to robots has already occurred and will continue. It started in the late sixties and has continued. The robots now used don’t look like robots but they are most senses of the word.
So that’s ALL you want? Bernie voter alert!
Too right. If you ever needed something done in a busy office it was given to the one that worked the hardest...the complaint was, the reward for hard work, is more hard work. But it was always the busiest of us that got more work to do. It is the busy, hard working ones who carried the load for the goof offs. Anna’s little idea is just more of the same. She sounds like a lay-about coming up with goofy ideas where she can dodge work by being “creative”. Goofball!!!
Socially speaking I think the family would not survive the sorts of unemployment rates people are talking about. Abortion would skyrocket to numbers that would make the current ones look tiny. Marriage would shrink even further back into the recesses. People would be out entirely for themselves without the ability to care for one another in a family situation. I’ve seen crime levels at double digit unemployment. I can’t imagine four times that.
Maybe I’m an Eeyore. I always used to scoff at the idea of the coming technological displacement. I thought a lack of work was too good to be true. But talk has done nothing but increase over the decades and technology is catching up in the ways people predicted. Now I’m talking it seriously and planning for the worst.
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