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Re:Poll: 1.8M Americans have turned down jobs due to unemplo... by SubiculumCode on Friday July 16, 2021 @01:48PM (#27859003)
Suddenly workers have leverage and corps don't know what to do about it. That's why I think a UBI would be a good idea. It would give leverage to individual workers without a union, now that unions are so weak.
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Re:Poll: 1.8M Americans have turned down jobs due to unemplo... by imtringued on Friday July 16, 2021 @04:14PM (#27860722)
You can't fund a UBI with income taxes though. It only works if you fund the UBI with taxes on regressive behavior.
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Re:Poll: 1.8M Americans have turned down jobs due to unemplo... by SubiculumCode on Friday July 16, 2021 @02:26PM (#27859492)
The moderation on HackerNews has gotten worse over the last five years. Reflexive downvoting for simple disagreement without the effort of a written response is the go-to short circuited brain-dead, ideological response I came to HN to avoid. Now down vote this as off-topic.
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