Re:Request For Research: Basic Income
by ThomPete on Wednesday January 27, 2016 @04:28PM
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Sure but Basic Income is about something else, something bigger.
It's about solving the fact that everyone is going to be out of a job.
If you only go to it by thinking you have to find a solution to the current workforce and income distribution problem then you are missing the real problem.
Denmark pays a lot in taxes, free healthcare, free education (even university), students get paid to study, redistribute wealth quite a lot and so on.
Problem is still there. The rich get richer compared to the poor while everyone is getting richer overall.
Re:Request For Research: Basic Income
by tptacek on Wednesday January 27, 2016 @04:41PM
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I'm not interested in litigating basic income; I'm confining my responses to the terms 'sama set up: "things startups can conceivably do". That doesn't mean I believe startups are the most important vector in improving public policy.
Problem is still there. The rich get richer compared to the poor while everyone is getting richer overall.