Everywhere basic income has been tried, in one map

Re:Everywhere basic income has been tried, in one map by easytiger on Sunday June 05, 2022 @05:14PM (#31634919)

> Folks have guaranteed incomes now. Lots of folk, lots of places. The world hasn't ended. Pensions, annuities, allowances, grants.

A pension or annuity paid for by your own effort is not even remotely related or comparable.

> Of course it can work. 90% of everything is automated now.

I'm not sure if it is funny or disturbing that you believe that. How sheltered, or privileged, must you be to believe it. The automation fantasy - I'll believe it when I see it.

So, in short, as per my post, your philosophy relies on an appeal to victimhood and a theoretician utopian advancement.

For something that's only Apparently 10% away it sure isn't manifesting in utopian robots everywhere

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Re:Everywhere basic income has been tried, in one map by JoeAltmaier on Monday June 06, 2022 @12:33PM (#31642596)

Yeah you must not work in the business. Factories with workers are evaporating as fast as they can be obsoleted. It's been going on for 2 decades now.

The obstacle to UBI is not financial nor technological. It's social. Old entrenched views that haven't been revisited since childhood, and the folks holding those views making decisions.

I think a generation will have to grow old and die before UBI will be found acceptable.

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