Post APXDFHDNXxybHLdBEu by LunaDragofelis@snowdin.town
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 (DIR) Post #APXDFHDNXxybHLdBEu by LunaDragofelis@snowdin.town
       2022-11-12T12:45:20.774169Z
       
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       The revolutionary part of it would be acknowledging that living in non-poverty is an unconditional basic right.UBI should kill the argument of "welfare queens get more than hard-working minimum wage people" because you still get full UBI if you work, in *addition* to any earned wages.UBI would make minimum wage unnecessary. The UBI should be enough to cover basic living costs (if it isn't, it's done wrong), so one could still live well with a low wage. But also, it might actually drive wages UP because people aren't dependent anymore on having a job at all and can afford to refuse low-paying or otherwise shitty jobs.Children and teens should get full UBI, delivered directly to them and not their parents. Parents should have limited control over their kids' personal property, only to the amount required to prevent harm.Permanent residents should get UBI even if they don't have citizenship.UBI should be attached to inflation, and rise together with the cost of living.UBI will stimulate the economy because formerly poor people will now be able to buy nice things.It's easy to fund. Just enforce multinational corporations paying full taxes for all revenue generated in the country. This will likely create enough tax revenue to fund many more things, like good education, social housing and better healthcare.Actual socialism would be way better, but capitalism with UBI is a dramatic improvement from capitalism without UBI.Hashtag spam below.#ubi #UniversalBasicIncome #MinimumWage #inflation #CostOfLiving #capitalism #socialism #economy #economics #poverty
       
 (DIR) Post #APXDFHkLZOLcvb3Vcu by Paradox@raru.re
       2022-11-12T17:39:10Z
       
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       @LunaDragofelis I'd like to think that, in the next few decades, we'll get more politicians from younger generations less willing to accept bribes and enforce greater corp taxation. Change inevitably comes, because will inevitably strive for it, it's just a matter of when and at what cost.Also I was given an important question, from a conversation the other day. How would you define standard cost of living? That's going to vary at least from city to city, and year to year, or even within one, as the economy fluctuates. You could create a margin to make it less fragile, like giving people 20% extra in case. The other issue is that the government moves slow, so if the ubi does need to be adjusted, it would need to go through a guaranteed fast(er) process.