Re:The US is the most expensive nation in which to have a baby
by DoreenMichele on Sunday January 21, 2018 @03:37PM
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Currently, multiple tech giants are pro UBI. Sam Altman is constantly on the front page of HN talking about it. He is putting millions of his own money into UBI experiments.
I am not aware of him doing anything about healthcare or affordable housing. Since he became president of YC, he has used it as a platform to promote various social agendas he is interested in. YC fosters the development of businesses.
You cannot convince me that the focus of someone like that has no impact on the kind of world we are creating. I do not believe he in any way cares about the little people. I do not believe he has any interest in or willingness to open doors for poor people. His interest in UBI strikes me as a huge fuck you and quit your bitching to the little people.
You need to be very leery of the motives of the architects of such a system. Currently, American welfare does an excellent job of trapping people in poverty. I have no idea why you are so strongly convinced that some new welfare scheme with a shiny new name won't continue that pattern. I have seen zero evidence that it will.
Since healthcare and affordable housing both need to be fixed anyway, I would much prefer to see time and effort to into those things in the here and now rather than into all this talk of UBI. If both of those things get fixed first and people still think UBI is a good idea, I would be much more willing to support it at that point. But at this point in time, talk of UBI looks to me like a lazy concept if throwing money at the problems of poor people as if their problems are easily solved. This makes me extremely leery of both the idea itself and of the idea that people trying to spearhead the movement are at all qualified to do the heavy lifting involved in solving healthcare and affordable housing.
I am not aware of him doing anything about healthcare or affordable housing. Since he became president of YC, he has used it as a platform to promote various social agendas he is interested in. YC fosters the development of businesses.
You cannot convince me that the focus of someone like that has no impact on the kind of world we are creating. I do not believe he in any way cares about the little people. I do not believe he has any interest in or willingness to open doors for poor people. His interest in UBI strikes me as a huge fuck you and quit your bitching to the little people.
You need to be very leery of the motives of the architects of such a system. Currently, American welfare does an excellent job of trapping people in poverty. I have no idea why you are so strongly convinced that some new welfare scheme with a shiny new name won't continue that pattern. I have seen zero evidence that it will.
Since healthcare and affordable housing both need to be fixed anyway, I would much prefer to see time and effort to into those things in the here and now rather than into all this talk of UBI. If both of those things get fixed first and people still think UBI is a good idea, I would be much more willing to support it at that point. But at this point in time, talk of UBI looks to me like a lazy concept if throwing money at the problems of poor people as if their problems are easily solved. This makes me extremely leery of both the idea itself and of the idea that people trying to spearhead the movement are at all qualified to do the heavy lifting involved in solving healthcare and affordable housing.