Re:Universal Basic Income
by FussyZeus on Tuesday January 03, 2017 @08:43AM
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Would I give up 10% of my income to prevent riots and a rural/urban civil war? Yes, yes I would and frankly if you wouldn't you're being penny wise and pound foolish. You can't just write off the entire blue collar class as they slide into starvation and go "well that's unfortunate," those are people, and more specifically people a lot more used to surviving off the grid than you are. We need them a lot more than they need us.
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Re:Universal Basic Income
by sheeshkebab on Tuesday January 03, 2017 @08:50AM
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^ , yes that's the main reason why rich/richer will tolerate.
People without money will tolerate it for a few years, but since it's 99% of Population it will eventually all explode and either slide into chaos, or some war. Don't need to look further than czarist Russia/Soviet Union to see what happens. 10/20% tax hike is peanuts in comparison to getting you and your family shot.
I wasn't aware that we were on the brink of a civil war.
Not yet, check back after truck driving gets automated on a large scale. That's going to be a big tipping event and we need to get ready for it.
Also, defending the exploitation of groups of people with "they are probably not going to kill us yet" isn't a great line of thought. Just saying.
I think you're jumping the gun just a bit, is all I'm saying. You're talking about widespread automation with the assumption that there won't be other jobs created as a result of it.
Also, how do you plan to compensate for the lower buying power people will have when their taxes are increased by 10%? Are we all going to live in government subsidized housing?