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Re:Sam Altman and Andrew Yang talk UBI by hacknat on Wednesday January 01, 2020 @09:38AM (#21928175)
What do you even mean? The average income in this country is ~45k. If that is what he was proposing than maybe we’d have an issue, I guess, but I doubt it. Everyone is so sure that people on UBI would stop working, and there is no evidence to back it up. In the studies that have shown people who stop working it is usually caregivers, which I would argue is a positive thing.
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Re:Sam Altman and Andrew Yang talk UBI by bostonvaulter2 on Monday January 06, 2020 @11:48PM (#21976949)
The median US individual income ($31,099) is a better metric to use since the average is more weighted by extremes that don't represent the "typical" experience of people.

[1] According to google from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_income_in_the_United_...

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