Re:Can Universal Basic Income Transform Society?
by al_borland on Wednesday July 17, 2024 @11:00AM
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How is everyone not worse off under this plan? They are being bled dry by taxes and tossed a couple nickels back as UBI. No one would vote for this.
The only people who wouldn’t be worse off are people with no income to start with. I assume they’d get some base level $1k UBI.
I think Andrew Yang had the right idea, in the limited amount I heard. Tax the cooperations that are using AI or automation to reduce the need for workers. Their costs are going down, while their profits stay high, so capture that and give it to the people who were displaced. Bleeding the middle class, and people in general, doesn’t make sense.
The only people who wouldn’t be worse off are people with no income to start with. I assume they’d get some base level $1k UBI.
I think Andrew Yang had the right idea, in the limited amount I heard. Tax the cooperations that are using AI or automation to reduce the need for workers. Their costs are going down, while their profits stay high, so capture that and give it to the people who were displaced. Bleeding the middle class, and people in general, doesn’t make sense.