Rushi posted:

I feel this kind of thing quickly turns into people working in military production lines, and politicians needing reasons to keep the military production lines producing.

Condiv posted:

when democrats won't do what is needed, then voting the "lesser of two evils" is not the right option anymore

Peanut President posted:

With UBI could start a business selling t-shirts that say "dont talk to me" and sell them to fellow goons.

Lindsey O. Graham posted:

White Rock posted:

No need for controls mate.

Even if everything goes up by what the UBI covers, poorer people will be better off, the rest won't feel the difference.

Coolguye posted:

I'm on my phone and hoo buddy is there a lot to unpack here

that is the planned economy. government goes out and tells people what they are doing in terms of production these year and manages everything on behalf of the citizenry. in this way, speculation is impossible and bubbles don't exist. the only planned economy left on the planet is north korea's - all of the rest of them brought stagnation, misery, and deprivation to the people it ostensibly served. and North Korea currently starves its people to build nukes on a regular basis so they arguably are already imploded and are just waiting for the counting to start in economic terms. if this is ostensibly socialism then it's socialism gone too far and again, all the data is very unambiguous about this. there's a lot of reasons why planned economies don't work but that's beyond the scope of this post. for the purposes of this thread you're advocating the policy that lost the second world the Cold War.

Lindsey O. Graham posted:

a screed about pigs flying was written here

-fin