The people who accept such funds are called Dolists and it doesn't end well.
SERIOUS DISCUSSION: Universal Minimum Income
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I am the devil himself. The company I work for designs and builds manufacturing automation. I install and program the robots and send $8.00/hr Jimmy packing. It also creates higher skilled higher paying jobs. Floor automation techs is a great field that is always needed.
Customers will run press and automation as fast as the robot will run. 24/7. Things break. Things wear out. Now I am back in the plant for repair and maintenance. Maybe a retro fit for a different part to handle. It never ends. jobs are also created.
Providing lazy people an incentive to not work. Yeah I'll pass on that. They can sink or swim on their own.
Customers will run press and automation as fast as the robot will run. 24/7. Things break. Things wear out. Now I am back in the plant for repair and maintenance. Maybe a retro fit for a different part to handle. It never ends. jobs are also created.
Providing lazy people an incentive to not work. Yeah I'll pass on that. They can sink or swim on their own.
Even if it was feasible, the 1% will never go along with it.
I think once technology reaches the point that middle class labor is not longer profitable... the will be a massive' natural disaster' that take the lives of thousands of the poor.
I think once technology reaches the point that middle class labor is not longer profitable... the will be a massive' natural disaster' that take the lives of thousands of the poor.
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Someone has been reading Rainmakers posts, lol.
Those times may be over, e.g. the opening scene from Idiocracy...
Well for one, like all things, the money for this has to come from SOMEWHERE. Where will the government get the money to pay for this universal minimum wage? Especially with less people working and thus, paying less in taxes.
This is the equivalent of giving everyone welfare. It already is causing issues at its current rate, I can't even fathom how it can work across the whole US population.
This is the equivalent of giving everyone welfare. It already is causing issues at its current rate, I can't even fathom how it can work across the whole US population.
I've seen enough greed in this world with my own eyes that nothing seems unimaginable.
I don't see the wealthy saying 'we have it all, let's share with the less fortunate'
I can easily picture the wealthy using extreme measures to make sure their fortunate is protected.
But you said a natural disaster, are the 1% hoarding a tornado machine?
I'm no expert but in theory, a big part of the money comes from eliminating current government hand outs. No welfare, just a straight cash payout monthly.
You can also add a tax to corporations. 1% tax on all US companies, 2% taxes on all foreign companies that wish to do business in the US.
You minimize the chance of an uprising if you can kill people and shift the blame. I usually don't go full time tin foil, but I've read enough about things our government has done in the past... And these were just the things that got leaked.
Our government, hands down, plays the dirtiest of them all.
http://www.nbcnews.com/id/39456324/...th/t/us-apologizes-guatemala-std-experiments/
So I think the issue at hand is you don't understand what a natural disaster is...but can predict the future "rebellion". Mmmkay
The issue at hand is greed controls the world. The ones that hold the key to the door surely ain't letting the rest of us in...
Ah gotcha. So because our government played dirty games with another country 70 years ago you can extrapolate that behavior to killing its own citizens now?
Makes sense.
There is so much to unpack here it's best we save for another thread.
So you're eliminating one type of welfare for another?
How long before the people who don't work decide their stipend is not enough?
Why the hell should any corporation be taxed for such a ridiculous program.
They won't let us in because they'll attack us with earthquakes and tornadoes like Captain Planet?
@treynor
You're a 1%er, you got some sharknadoes you're going to unleash on us small folk?
Build and maintain your own door.
Do you have any idea of the thought and ideology with which America was Founded?
Stop asking for someone to hold your hand for you and create/live your own destiny.
America, while flawed, is the freest, richest, most exceptional county in the HISTORY OF THE WORLD. Read that again.
Only YOU are in control of you here. No one else. Period.
We can disagree but I'd stand by my point that those in power will do anything to keep that power.
Earthquake and tornado machines?? I never claimed that but there has certainly been research on how to cause such events. I have no doubt there are weapons out there that are unimaginable.
You can't morally wage war on poor people, but when something terrible happens to them... **** it.
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