Re:A Basic Income Is Smarter Than a Minimum Wage
by jeffdavis on Tuesday April 05, 2016 @03:39AM
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A healthy career is a journey that often begins long before you depend on the money. A first job is more than just "gas money".
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Re:A Basic Income Is Smarter Than a Minimum Wage
by st3v3r on Tuesday April 05, 2016 @01:57PM
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Not a response to my question at all.
Re:A Basic Income Is Smarter Than a Minimum Wage
by jeffdavis on Tuesday April 05, 2016 @08:06PM
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Your question was heavily loaded, and misses the time dimension. Today's unemployed HS student might be tomorrow's un(der)-employed head of household. So don't dismiss it as "gas money".
Trying to create a total order by comparing the two alternatives goes down a bad road. There's always someone in need, but if you try to optimize the entire economy around that one story, you will have a disaster.
Maybe it's best to just have more jobs, period, even with low pay? And then make up for needy cases some other way?
Re:A Basic Income Is Smarter Than a Minimum Wage
by st3v3r on Wednesday April 06, 2016 @04:29PM
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"Maybe it's best to just have more jobs, period, even with low pay? And then make up for needy cases some other way?"
Why should that be anyone's responsibility but the company? Why should my tax dollars be used to subsidize some greedy business guy who can't be arsed to pay their employees enough to live on?