Joe Rogan Experience #1245 – Andrew Yang

Re:Joe Rogan Experience #1245 – Andrew Yang by PostOnce on Friday June 14, 2019 @09:51PM (#20187972)

What I don't get about Yang's pitch is that $1,000/mo is sold as a basic income. In what part of America can $1,000 pay for rent/food/power? Why bother calling it a basic income and not just a universal tax credit or something, if it isn't in fact a basic income (which means enough to survive on)?

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Re:Joe Rogan Experience #1245 – Andrew Yang by derrick_jensen on Friday June 14, 2019 @11:25PM (#20188240)

You can live pretty comfortably off of $1000 a month (as a single person) in the Midwest. If you are in some sort of relationship, you have an effective $2k (not including the savings from not having to pay for rent again). If you need more money, save some money up over time and put it into a mutual fund or another financial device.

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Re:Joe Rogan Experience #1245 – Andrew Yang by mac01021 on Friday June 14, 2019 @11:29PM (#20188256)

It seems like he may have switched more recently to calling it "the freedom dividend", rather than UBI. I'm not sure how consistently, though.

Also, in most of the USA, $1,000 is enough for rent, food, and power, at least with a flatmate taking on half of the rent.

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Re:Joe Rogan Experience #1245 – Andrew Yang by gamechangr on Friday June 14, 2019 @11:02PM (#20188174)

He does in fact do just that. He calls it " A freedom dividend"

https://www.yang2020.com/policies/the-freedom-dividend/

Yang doesn't mean for it to be enough to survive on. He means it to be enough to "supplement people to get out of a scarcity mentality".

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Re:Joe Rogan Experience #1245 – Andrew Yang by toomuchtodo on Friday June 14, 2019 @10:06PM (#20188034)

That’s the US poverty line for a single person. It can be done. It’s not comfy, but it can be done.

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