/r/antiwork: A tragedy of sanewashing and social gentrification

Re:/r/antiwork: A tragedy of sanewashing and social gentrifi... by Jeff_Brown on Monday February 07, 2022 @11:56AM (#30247503)

False. You'd need 4 trillion dollars a year to give 12k to everyone in the US. That would mean doubling US federal expenditures. And some people would stop working, hence stop paying income tax. Some businesses would leave the country.

I do expect someday it will be feasible though. Maybe in my lifetime.

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Re:/r/antiwork: A tragedy of sanewashing and social gentrifi... by dymk on Monday February 07, 2022 @12:02PM (#30247596)

Maybe we lower the US military spending budget to "only" be 10% higher than the next highest spender. That should free up some cash.

Gotta start somewhere :)

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Re:/r/antiwork: A tragedy of sanewashing and social gentrifi... by cuteboy19 on Monday February 07, 2022 @03:11PM (#30250303)

Emphasis on the 'some' in some cash. As bloated as the US military is, it 'only' has a budget of $700B and a good portion of this is veterns welfare programs. This should put into perspective how ludicrously expensive UBI truly is

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