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Re:As Tech Evaporates Jobs, “The Tipping Point Will Be Drive... by dragonwriter on Wednesday June 15, 2016 @01:30PM (#11910694)

UBI, at any level reasonably sustainable with modern or near-future technology and achievable productivity, isn't comfortable, its at best an alleviation of severe poverty (and a mitigation of some of the harms induced by means-tested social benefit programs in pursuit of alleviating severe poverty) for those who can't find a way to make more, as well as boost to those who can but who are still net beneficiaries after considering whatever tax or other mechanism is used to fund the UBI.

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Re:As Tech Evaporates Jobs, “The Tipping Point Will Be Drive... by eru on Wednesday June 15, 2016 @07:33PM (#11912911)

Are you talking about a global UBI? That might be true.

A UBI in Europe could mostly just replace current spending at similar levels, and thus would be comfortable enough in eg Germany or Scandinavia.

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Re:As Tech Evaporates Jobs, “The Tipping Point Will Be Drive... by dragonwriter on Wednesday June 15, 2016 @07:41PM (#11912956)

> A UBI in Europe could mostly just replace current spending at similar levels

While UBI is more administratively efficient than means-tested benefit programs, it also inherently reaches a lot more people with its maximum benefit. I don't think there is any major country (there might be some small ones with a lot of money flowing in from the outside) that could sustainably keep UBI at any comfortable level rather than an alleviating severe poverty level at this time.

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Re:As Tech Evaporates Jobs, “The Tipping Point Will Be Drive... by eru on Thursday June 16, 2016 @02:32AM (#11914407)

Of course, on average you'd need to recover the full UBI from the average (not median) person via taxes.

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