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Re:Moving Forward on Basic Income by autokad on Thursday June 02, 2016 @12:39PM (#11823936)
basic income and minimum wage is about the same thing, its just a matter of how it gets taken out of our paychecks.

seatle is successful because of a tech boom and subsequent real estate boom, not because of minimum wage, that started just over a year ago.

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Re:Moving Forward on Basic Income by pitay on Thursday June 02, 2016 @05:19PM (#11826168)
I disagree that basic income and minimum wage is about the same thing.

I would be interested in where you have got the data from for that assertion that it was because of a tech boom and subsequent real estate boom. At the moment I believe the person who actually employs people as a large manufacturer than what is mentioned here in a comment.

If you would like to give your sources, I would be interested.

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