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Re:I'm going to work full-time on free software by skrowl on Wednesday January 16, 2019 @10:09AM (#18921423)
That's a good point, the US population of people 18 years or old is ~252 million, so if you only gave people 18+ a UBI handout, you'd cut your costs to 7.862 Trillion dollars per year.
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Re:I'm going to work full-time on free software by coldtea on Wednesday January 16, 2019 @11:35AM (#18922260)
Also one could remove the UBI part already covered by pensions -- e.g. the millions of government employees getting X pension money, can get (X - UBI) + UBI (so the same as they already get).
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Re:I'm going to work full-time on free software by dragonwriter on Wednesday January 16, 2019 @03:15PM (#18924623)
That's not a UBI, then, because it's not unconditional.

Also, I suspect the formula you intend is X + max(UBI - X, 0)β€”or, more simply max(UBI, X). Consider what your formula does for pension < UBI.

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Re:I'm going to work full-time on free software by mcguire on Wednesday January 16, 2019 @02:28PM (#18924126)
That's going in the right direction, but keep in mind that the entire federal budget is about $4 trillion. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_federal_budget#/...)

A UBI that pays a portion of a living wage might be a very good idea, but it's not going to allow the majority of Americans to lay on their butts all day watching TV and eating cheesy poofs.

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Re:I'm going to work full-time on free software by petey283 on Wednesday January 16, 2019 @10:55AM (#18921867)
Exactly this. And once you get into the 7.862 Trillion range you find that it's much more reasonable.
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