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Re:Universal Basic Income Will Likely Increase Social Cohesion by drewrv on Saturday October 24, 2015 @02:27AM (#10442684)
US GDP has risen by more than 5 trillion since the year 2000 driven mostly by productivity improvements from tech. So we could already be doing it if we wanted to.
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Re:Universal Basic Income Will Likely Increase Social Cohesion by ConceptJunkie on Saturday October 24, 2015 @08:30AM (#10443397)
I was skeptical of your claim, but in fact, 5 trillion is an underestimate:

http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=us+gdp

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Re:Universal Basic Income Will Likely Increase Social Cohesion by eru on Saturday October 24, 2015 @04:24AM (#10442889)
Is that in 2000 dollars?
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Re:Universal Basic Income Will Likely Increase Social Cohesion by dllthomas on Monday October 26, 2015 @01:43AM (#10449768)
Per the numbers Wolfram Alpha is giving, the increase seems to be close to $8 trillion nominally, which amounts to something over $5 trillion in 2000 dollars.

Edited to add: I wondered how much of this was population growth, and certainly there has been some but real GDP per capita has grown about $5k over that period.

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Re:Universal Basic Income Will Likely Increase Social Cohesion by eru on Monday October 26, 2015 @06:28AM (#10450465)
Thanks for looking into this!
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