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Re:Universal Basic Income is Capitalism 2.0 by simonebrunozzi on Thursday July 30, 2020 @02:12AM (#23995181)
Absolutely wrong. Example:

Jeff Bezos, worth $150B, or the same worth of approx. 1M Americans, does not consume nor release carbon 1M times more than an average American.

Proportionally to his wealth, he's much less affected by a carbon tax.

For the same reason, someone below the average wealth and/or income is heavily affected by a carbon tax.

Re:Universal Basic Income is Capitalism 2.0 by diffeomorphism on Thursday July 30, 2020 @02:35AM (#23995298)
Also absolutely wrong. The fact that it stops scaling at millionaires would only be worthwhile discussing if a large share of the population were billionaires. "This tax works great for 99% of the population, but there are some billionaires that should be taxed higher" is more of an endorsement than a counterargument.
Re:Universal Basic Income is Capitalism 2.0 by LordDragonfang on Thursday July 30, 2020 @04:08AM (#23995753)
Amazons's carbon footprint, 2018:

44.40 million metric tons [1]

Average American carbon footprint:

16 tons [2]

Now, I'm sure there's some inaccuracy here, and it's a bit of a stretch to say Bezos is personally responsible for all of Amazon's emissions, but he's pretty clearly in the same order of magnitude as having a million times the carbon emissions of the average American.

[1] https://d39w7f4ix9f5s9.cloudfront.net/26/7f/e1693ffc45db88d8...

[2] https://www.nature.org/en-us/get-involved/how-to-help/carbon....

Re:Universal Basic Income is Capitalism 2.0 by ghostwriter on Thursday July 30, 2020 @07:39AM (#23996951)
Amazon literally serves those average americans, why the carbon footprint is on Amazon's account? It would hardly produce any footprint if there were no people ordering stuff.
Re:Universal Basic Income is Capitalism 2.0 by heavyset_go on Thursday July 30, 2020 @12:06PM (#23999757)
Amazon serves Amazon's board and shareholders. Also, many Americans are priced out of Amazon entirely, as it is cheaper to shop elsewhere.
Re:Universal Basic Income is Capitalism 2.0 by namdnay on Thursday July 30, 2020 @02:30AM (#23995276)
And he will get the same UBI as any other american, so proportionally to his wealth he's much less affected by the UBI stimulus
Re:Universal Basic Income is Capitalism 2.0 by garmaine on Thursday July 30, 2020 @02:15AM (#23995198)
That’s not what’s being argued. Rather, the poor are going to pay less in carbon taxes than they receive in UBI. This is simply a matter of how power laws and averages work.