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Re:Basic income would not reduce people’s willingness to work by edmcnulty101 on Monday January 17, 2022 @01:12PM (#29969591)
Most of the productivity gains go to the top percentage of people. Despite massive gdp increases in 20 years wages havent budged.

If all the work was automated/outsourced those people would still make the same money.

These are the people who ostensibly will pay for UBI and automation/outsources is one of the cases for UBI.

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Re:Basic income would not reduce people’s willingness to work by qwytw on Monday January 17, 2022 @02:09PM (#29970447)
If we take out the period between around 2000 and 2010 they have been growing continuously since 1980 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_income_in_the_United_...)

of course it's not at the same rate as GDP (5x vs 1.5x for personal income).

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Re:Basic income would not reduce people’s willingness to work by edmcnulty101 on Monday January 17, 2022 @03:42PM (#29971490)
It's kept up with inflation. But that's about it. Which means real wage growth is minimal.
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