A Basic Income Should Be the Next Big Thing

Re:A Basic Income Should Be the Next Big Thing by alehander42 on Tuesday May 03, 2016 @08:50AM (#11620101)

I am just amused by the "2nd world country" thing. I really fail to see how life in Central Europe is somehow of "lower quality"(e.g. Czech, Poland, Germany) compared to USA. I'd actually prefer living in Central Europe or especially Southern Europe over USA any day.

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Re:A Basic Income Should Be the Next Big Thing by Aoyagi on Tuesday May 03, 2016 @01:52PM (#11622797)

Well since you just bulked Czechia, Poland and Germany into one group, I can understand how you fail to see it.

Since you mentioned Germany, I'll use that. A Czech earns about a third of what a German earns. But everything costs more or less the same (except for housing, but the difference certainly isn't multiples). Gasoline costs the same (and much more than in US), vast majority of consumer goods costs the same, food seems to be cheaper, but that's because it's of lower quality.

Yeah, education is "free". As is government free to take more than half of what people earn.

By "2nd world" I mean "1st world prices, 3rd world wages" (yes I know 3rd world is something incomperable).

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Re:A Basic Income Should Be the Next Big Thing by alehander42 on Tuesday May 03, 2016 @04:50PM (#11624124)

Oh, I did it intentionally. I live in Bulgaria and the situation is similar. However my definition of 2nd world is just different, that's all.

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Re:A Basic Income Should Be the Next Big Thing by Aoyagi on Wednesday May 04, 2016 @05:06AM (#11627129)

Well, of course, I consider it more of a tongue-in-cheek term, heh.

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Re:A Basic Income Should Be the Next Big Thing by ArkyBeagle on Tuesday May 03, 2016 @09:56AM (#11620652)

It's really Old World, New World and Other, which was labelled "The Third World". It's not supposed to be ordinal.

Media is advertising supported ( mostly still ) and it's therefore targeted at the New World, which breeds this curious resentment. But if one of these Worlds is to be the Second, I'd think it would be the New World.

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Re:A Basic Income Should Be the Next Big Thing by kgwgk on Tuesday May 03, 2016 @03:26PM (#11623489)

Actually the term "Third World" was used to refer to the non-aligned countries (as opposed to NATO on one side and the communist bloc on the other).

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Re:A Basic Income Should Be the Next Big Thing by Aoyagi on Wednesday May 04, 2016 @04:37AM (#11627018)

Yeah, it's can have many meanings (including "non-EU, non-EEC and non-EFTA countries". I just used the one that's the most popular. ^^

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