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Re:A Dutch city is giving money away to test the basic incom... by nekopa on Thursday July 02, 2015 @02:18PM (#9820617)
If all the world wealth was distributed to everyone on the planet, we'd all get about $51,000.

I'd be drastically better off.

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Re:A Dutch city is giving money away to test the basic incom... by eli_gottlieb on Thursday July 02, 2015 @05:31PM (#9821802)
Yeah, at that rate, I'd only be very slightly worse off than I am now. Maybe I'd lose... $10k-$20k to Horrifying Socialism. But hey, I could restart my life from a capital base of $51k.
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