What is the right amount of Basic Income?

doogie · May 2017

We should all be receiving?

TierbsHsotBoobs · May 2017

5

UWhuskytskeet · May 2017

What is the right's solution for 95% of current jobs being automated?

RedRocket · May 2017

Aren't you a strip mall stock broker who works for Scotttrade or Fidelity? So probably slightly more than whatever your annual income is.

Kaepsknee · May 2017

$7.11 per .28 hour of course.

Fenderbender123 · May 2017

However much somebody is willing to pay you for the work you do.

doogie · May 2017

Out of the loop, I see

BearsWiin · May 2017

Is this for me, family, and friends, or is it for people I don't know?

RaceBannon · May 2017

Fenderbender123 said:
However much somebody is willing to pay you for the work you do.

Radical idea. Don't think it will work

BennyBeaver · May 2017

Fenderbender123 said:
However much somebody is willing to pay you for the work you do.

You better check your privilege.

Pitchfork51 · May 2017

$81

YellowSnow · May 2017

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.

Pitchfork51 · May 2017

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.

Idle poverty is our war cry on HH.

dhdawg · May 2017

I'd love to hear your solution to the oncoming crisis of mass-automation

YellowSnow · May 2017

Pitchfork51 said:

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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.
Idle poverty is our war cry on HH.

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 · May 2017

YellowSnow said:

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Pitchfork51 said:

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.
Idle poverty is our war cry on HH.
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.

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.

Swaye · May 2017

Pitchfork51 said:

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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.
Idle poverty is our war cry on HH.

Stop appropriating my culture.

doogie · May 2017

You plan on popping out kids and stealing their basic income?

TierbsHsotBoobs · May 2017

Swaye said:

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Pitchfork51 said:

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.
Idle poverty is our war cry on HH.
Stop appropriating my culture.

I read war and assumed @Dardanus was the one being appropriated.

Mosster47 · May 2017

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.

HoustonHusky · May 2017

I think we should let people vote every 4 years on how much their Basic Income should be.

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