Re:Moving Forward on Basic Income
by dilemma on Wednesday June 01, 2016 @08:50AM
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Scenario: You're married with 2 kids and live in San Francisco. Is an $8,000/year UBI going to enable you to quit your $100,000/year job without another lined up?
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Re:Moving Forward on Basic Income
by krashnburn200 on Wednesday June 01, 2016 @10:03AM
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Obviously it would. You are trying to conflate having a family with living in an over priced high demand location. Try again.
I have no idea what this means in relation to the scenario. Can you explain?
No, I'm saying that in many cases UBI is far too low to have any effect at all. Unless you put it at $100,000/year.
Re:Moving Forward on Basic Income
by InclinedPlane on Thursday June 02, 2016 @02:20PM
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Yup, definitely.
The more you make the more you can save. And the more you can own. People who make that much aren't the ones you need to target to improve their bargaining power or labor mobility, but UBI is still a benefit. Some cash flow is better than no cash flow. Even if it's only enough to pay the interest on their credit cards, that's still a big deal. And might be enough to convince people to leave jobs they hate.