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"Universal Basic Income" makes sense even for Republicans IF they actually do the math.
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[quote:NowIhavetothinkofaname:MV8zNTcxODM1XzY3NjcwNjA1XzcyREQxRTIy] [quote:Anonymous Coward 63928440:MV8zNTcxODM1XzY0MTgwOTQyXzJEMzRCNDRD] [quote:NowIhavetothinkofaname:MV8zNTcxODM1XzY0MTczMzIyX0U2MUNBRTIz] [quote:Zedakah:MV8zNTcxODM1XzYzNzkxMzgzXzZEMzNERDQ2] Giving people something they didn't earn is always a horrible idea. Look at public housing. People have no sense of responsibility to take care of things they didn't earn. Heck even the shared laboratory in my department is the filthiest place on the floor. Even highly knowledgeable and responsible people refuse to maintain public areas as if they were their own. [b] If you give people money for not working, then they will never work again.[/b] [/quote] That's why it's a great idea! Just cut funding for it and you get your 500 million people in no time... [/quote] I think people would dedicate their time improving themselves by studying, learning and preparing for the Future which can be quite promising if everyone pulled together. The Government will have to intervene on behalf of the People (The People are the Government) at some point because technology has reached a point where people's jobs are being made redundant by Automation and Robotics. Even Burger flippers can be replaced (What would Sponge Bob Square Pants say)? A Star Trek type future could be closer than it appears, one where People strive to improve themselves and explore the Universe around and within them, in peace. "We the People" Have to want it. [/quote] It's postulated that AI will reach Artificial Super Intelligence either hours or months after Artificial General Intelligence. If an Artificial Super Intelligence has an IQ of 300 then no human can compete with AI's knowledgeable labor. Computers and robots will work for AUD 30 cents an hour. So either humans do an inferior job to the AI providing a human experience to other humans, or the humans work for 30 cents an hour doing robot jobs... Either way humans will just be house cats to our new robot overlords. Wealthy humans will have AI implants and be able to compete with the robots. But the average person will just be a unloved vermin in the foreseeable future. [/quote]
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Instead of just reflexively opposing a Basic Income in the US, the Republicans should actually look at the advantages.
If the new Basic Income Law is passed so that it completely REPLACES welfare payments, food stamps, Social Security payments, disability payments, and ALL other government payments, the savings in paper shuffling and bureaucracy alone would pay for the new program.
Also, by writing the new law to apply to "US Citizens ONLY," it would eliminate Billions of dollars in payments to illegals in all of those replaced programs.
A Basic Income would also increase the buying power for retailers, etc. This idea makes perfect sense from both a liberal and conservative perspective.
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