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Re:Basic income would not reduce people’s willingness to work by staticassertion on Monday January 17, 2022 @01:15PM (#29969623)
One thing that's been made clear in the last two years is that even a very very measly increase to unemployment can have huge impact. And unemployment runs out after a while, and the increases have been tiny. And unemployment makes you jump through hoops, is very stressful, and wastes a lot of your time.

I expect that UBI could start off very small and still have huge impact. A quick search shows that median income can range from ~40k-80k state to state. I'd bet you could radically change this country for way less than that.

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Re:Basic income would not reduce people’s willingness to work by tekknik on Tuesday January 18, 2022 @12:06AM (#29975353)
If people are getting paid $80k a year to do nothing Im quitting my job and living in the woods. 1 less software engineer.
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Re:Basic income would not reduce people’s willingness to work by staticassertion on Tuesday January 18, 2022 @02:20PM (#29984324)
The point was to pay less than median income. So you're looking at closer to 30k at the high end.
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Re:Basic income would not reduce people’s willingness to work by tekknik on Wednesday January 19, 2022 @10:49AM (#29995142)
So those in high cost of living areas are still just screwed? $30k/yr isn’t even enough to pay rent.
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Re:Basic income would not reduce people’s willingness to work by staticassertion on Wednesday January 19, 2022 @11:01AM (#29995364)
Do you want me to write a full, detailed policy? Or can you just use some common sense?
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