What is the right amount of Basic Income?
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Charles Murray, a prominent conservative political scientist, who made news of late as being the speaker the snowflakes rioted against at Middlebury, thinks it should be around $10,000 a year deposited into a certifiable bank account (Healthcare would be separate deal). No taxes on your first $30,000 (including the universal basic income) so as to remove dis-incentive from going out and getting a low paying job. Logic is that having $30,000 a year will be better for most, than $10,000 even if you have to earn it by showing up at a job. Right now too many in our society are choosing idle poverty (e.g., disability payments) over working poverty, because there's not much difference financially.
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Idle poverty is our war cry on HH.YellowSnow said:Charles Murray, a prominent conservative political scientist, who made news of late as being the speaker the snowflakes rioted against at Middlebury, thinks it should be around $10,000 a year deposited into a certifiable bank account (Healthcare would be separate deal). No taxes on your first $30,000 (including the universal basic income) so as to remove dis-incentive from going out and getting a low paying job. Logic is that having $30,000 a year will be better for most, than $10,000 even if you have to earn it by showing up at a job. Right now too many in our society are choosing idle poverty (e.g., disability payments) over working poverty, because there's not much difference financially.
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I'd love to hear your solution to the oncoming crisis of mass-automation
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Sure if you want to live in your 2 dad's basement and subsist on ramen and Mountain Dew. But if you want hookers and blow you still gotta get a job at Orkin or something. The beauty of UBI is that is doesn't penalize one from taking the crummy job.Pitchfork51 said:
Idle poverty is our war cry on HH.YellowSnow said:Charles Murray, a prominent conservative political scientist, who made news of late as being the speaker the snowflakes rioted against at Middlebury, thinks it should be around $10,000 a year deposited into a certifiable bank account (Healthcare would be separate deal). No taxes on your first $30,000 (including the universal basic income) so as to remove dis-incentive from going out and getting a low paying job. Logic is that having $30,000 a year will be better for most, than $10,000 even if you have to earn it by showing up at a job. Right now too many in our society are choosing idle poverty (e.g., disability payments) over working poverty, because there's not much difference financially.
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True true. 800 bucks a month isn't gonna get me too far. Maybe if I pop out a few kids I can get more.YellowSnow said:
Sure if you want to live in your 2 dad's basement and subsist on ramen and Mountain Dew. But if you want hookers and blow you still gotta get a job at Orkin or something. The beauty of UBI is that is doesn't penalize one from taking the crummy job.Pitchfork51 said:
Idle poverty is our war cry on HH.YellowSnow said:Charles Murray, a prominent conservative political scientist, who made news of late as being the speaker the snowflakes rioted against at Middlebury, thinks it should be around $10,000 a year deposited into a certifiable bank account (Healthcare would be separate deal). No taxes on your first $30,000 (including the universal basic income) so as to remove dis-incentive from going out and getting a low paying job. Logic is that having $30,000 a year will be better for most, than $10,000 even if you have to earn it by showing up at a job. Right now too many in our society are choosing idle poverty (e.g., disability payments) over working poverty, because there's not much difference financially.
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Stop appropriating my culture.Pitchfork51 said:
Idle poverty is our war cry on HH.YellowSnow said:Charles Murray, a prominent conservative political scientist, who made news of late as being the speaker the snowflakes rioted against at Middlebury, thinks it should be around $10,000 a year deposited into a certifiable bank account (Healthcare would be separate deal). No taxes on your first $30,000 (including the universal basic income) so as to remove dis-incentive from going out and getting a low paying job. Logic is that having $30,000 a year will be better for most, than $10,000 even if you have to earn it by showing up at a job. Right now too many in our society are choosing idle poverty (e.g., disability payments) over working poverty, because there's not much difference financially.
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You plan on popping out kids and stealing their basic income?
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I read war and assumed @Dardanus was the one being appropriated.Swaye said:
Stop appropriating my culture.Pitchfork51 said:
Idle poverty is our war cry on HH.YellowSnow said:Charles Murray, a prominent conservative political scientist, who made news of late as being the speaker the snowflakes rioted against at Middlebury, thinks it should be around $10,000 a year deposited into a certifiable bank account (Healthcare would be separate deal). No taxes on your first $30,000 (including the universal basic income) so as to remove dis-incentive from going out and getting a low paying job. Logic is that having $30,000 a year will be better for most, than $10,000 even if you have to earn it by showing up at a job. Right now too many in our society are choosing idle poverty (e.g., disability payments) over working poverty, because there's not much difference financially.
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I like mine. $100k, insurances that cover everything so well a catastrophic event means nothing financially, 5% IRA matching, and 1% for every year worked for a pension based on your three highest income years.
Also if you hit 30 years and are at your minimum retirement age you get a Social Security bridge gap that equals your early Social Security amount. Dumbo wants to take this away though, even though he started receiving Social Security as a small child. -
I think we should let people vote every 4 years on how much their Basic Income should be.
