Basic income plan clearly rejected by Swiss voters

Re:Basic income plan clearly rejected by Swiss voters by backtoyoujim on Sunday June 05, 2016 @09:38AM (#11840886)

The American Dream was narrated by banks in the USA as a way of fighting "the Red terra" and to make the populace wear the yolk of a mortgage. People with mortgages generally don't protest or strike.

As American hegemony spun the globe so did the "own your acres".

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Re:Basic income plan clearly rejected by Swiss voters by etatoby on Sunday June 05, 2016 @10:53AM (#11841246)

This is ridiculous.

Here in Europe we have been taking mortgages to buy property long before the USA was born, in fact since the Renaissance.

It certainly is a long-term contract, but nobody really considers it a "yolk." After a number of years your debt is paid and you can keep living in your place without paying anything else.

The alternative is to keep paying rent forever, well into retirement. Which one do you think is smarter?

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Re:Basic income plan clearly rejected by Swiss voters by ryandrake on Sunday June 05, 2016 @01:09PM (#11841908)

I don't know, I find the "yolk" of a mortgage to be eggcellent!

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Re:Basic income plan clearly rejected by Swiss voters by PantaloonFlames on Sunday June 05, 2016 @11:09AM (#11841353)

yoke http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/yoke

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Re:Basic income plan clearly rejected by Swiss voters by rs999gti on Sunday June 05, 2016 @10:04AM (#11841001)

> to make the populace wear the yolk of a mortgage. People with mortgages generally don't protest or strike.

You know when I mention this to my co-workers they grimace. We call mortgages and a family the 15-30 year jail sentence.

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