Re:The app that lets you pay to control another person's life
by codingdave on Tuesday May 18, 2021 @11:32AM
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wat. The rich will pay UBI in exchange for getting to control the votes? I'm hoping this was sarcasm.
Re:The app that lets you pay to control another person's life
by chr1 on Tuesday May 18, 2021 @02:19PM
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But the rich and middle class already do that in the form of paying taxes and government transferring part of that taxes to the poor. The only difference will be that poor will know exactly who is helping them, instead of thanking government and politicians, and half of the transferred money will not get wasted on politicians and bureaucracy.
Buying a phone for someone so that your law gets one more vote will be very natural, so all the poor people will get new phones very soon. And that will not be a bad thing, because politician will not be able to buy votes then pass a law to take the same money back from people. In effect this will morph into a sort of UBI, where some people pay others to keep society running with laws that they think are beneficial for everyone. And people who think they know better will be able to gather in separate cities and try out the laws they think will be better.