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    2020 US Election

    in General Banter

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    how would you propose to pay for a basic income for everybody of working age in the US?

    how much would it be?

    let's do some quick sums:

    there are approximately 210 million people of working age in the US.

    let's give them all a modest basic income of say, $1000 per month/$12k per year. not enough to really be useful or do anything with, better yourself, buy a house, save anything etc. but maybe just enough so you don't starve.

    12,000 x 210,000,000 = 2,520,000,000,000.

    let's call it $2.5 trillion dollars per year.

    just how would this ever be achieved? even at half that amount ($500 per month basic income) it's still well over a trillion dollars per year.

    this is what i'm getting at when i ask if someone is 15 etc - there needs to be some rationality here. just coming up with ideas that sound good but have zero basis in reality, (and are based on emotion) isn't going to help anything.

    i actually do agree that at some point in the future, we will hopefully do away with money and capitalism and maybe live in an enlightened society based on different driving factors and different measures of being successful. that is hundreds, if not thousands of years away though and would hinge on very star trek-esque technology being invented to free humans from "work" and make money and capital obsolete.

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    Coronavirus COVID-19

    in General Banter

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    @bcm it's that time on a Friday night for you, isn't it? Need pics of you with a beer & about to plow into a beast burger lol. 
     
    I'm picturing it right now :catrecline:
     
    lol ended up quite squiffy last night drinking black bottle whisky. pretty severe hangover, easing slightly now.

    need meat and eggs.
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    2020 US Election

    in General Banter

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    a worker party will rise and every pathetic liberal will be left behind as the neolib subconscious pseudo-fascist they are.  nothing can stop the workers of the world from uniting against class, the state, and money.

     

    lol wtf are you smoking mate? you sound like rik out of the young ones.

     

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