Fire Them All; God Will Know His Own: Harvard's 7,024 Administrators

Re:Fire Them All; God Will Know His Own: Harvard's 7,024 Adm... by pgwhalen on Friday December 02, 2022 @02:30PM (#33835585)

> what UBI actually means is giving exclusive in-groups more money than the median global income for free. We see exactly what happens in the gulf oil nations like Qatar.

This is interesting to me and I wanted to dig in more. You seem to imply that Qatar has some form of UBI, but I can't find any source to that effect.

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Re:Fire Them All; God Will Know His Own: Harvard's 7,024 Adm... by Aunche on Friday December 02, 2022 @03:14PM (#33836242)

Qatar doesn't have UBI, but I'd argue that what they haven't isn't very distinguishable from UBI. Qatari citizens are basically guaranteed a cushy government job where they are free to do whatever they want. 75% of Qataris are employed in the public sector [1], but they aren't actually doing the real work. For example, even though Qatar Airways is owned by the government, you'd most likely never see a flight crew member who's actually a citizen of Qatar. Similar jobs exist in Saudi Arabia, but recently they have been transitioning to a form of UBI [2].

[1] https://www.psa.gov.qa/en/statistics/Statistical%20Releases/...

[2] https://www.zawya.com/en/economy/gcc/saudi-citizen-account-p...

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