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Answers like this consider a society of one (or one plus family) and doesn't comprehend how the health and well being of a society directly correlates to the he
by themartorana 11y ago
Answers like this consider a society of one (or one plus family) and doesn't comprehend how the health and well being of a society directly correlates to the health and well being of the one.
But put that aside for a second. You also get this basic income, which is basically just printed money, so your taxes aren't helping someone else create art with UBI (but they sure are now, in actual reality). Your moral outrage about someone "creating art" as though it's less hard than your job is laughable, and oh by the way, your reward is income far above UBI, so you exist on a different financial plane for your hard work anyway.
But lower crime and happier people and less burden on courts and properly fed kids that lead to a better educated generation and less terrible schools in inner cities and every other benefit you receive from basic income and not one ounce of your "hard work" is just a step too far for you?
- strictnein 11y agoSo we're just printing all this money? Wow. I can't see anything wrong with that. If it's that easy, let's start at $1 million a person per month. We'll all be rich!
- aklemm 11y agoAn excellent answer. It's alarming how easy it is for young, childless, well-off people to simply not have any capacity to understand these points. I say that having been such a person, so it really is sad how long it can take to learn such lessons!
- LyndsySimon 11y agoIt seems like you're projecting your own bias onto those who disagree with you. What makes you think the GP is young, childless, and well-off? I oppose this, and I certainly don't fit your preconception.
- aklemm 11y agoYou'd be right if I said all young people feel that way and all parents above a certain age felt my way. But I didn't say that, and I don't believe that. To rephrase: it is alarming the rate at which young, childless, and well-off do not support family-centric public policy. Do you make a distinction between "projecting" and simply having an opinion? I do.
- LyndsySimon 11y agoYou said "It's alarming how easy it is for <group>" - that does not imply that you are alarmed at the rate at which something occurs, but that you believe that the condition is an attribute of group membership. My sincere apologies if I've misread your intent, but it certainly seems to me that you've taken a viewpoint with which you don't identify, and assigned it to a group with which you also don't identify. If you have any evidence that young, childless, well-off people tend to hold these beliefs, I'd love to see it.
- strictnein 11y agoAnswers like this would make sense if we didn't already spend billions and billions a year to address those exact topics, or if I was saying we shouldn't have any welfare programs at all.
- AnthonyMouse 11y ago> Answers like this would make sense if we didn't already spend billions and billions a year to address those exact topics, or if I was saying we shouldn't have any welfare programs at all. But then your argument doesn't make any sense because it applies more to means-tested programs than UBI, because working can't cause you to lose the UBI.
- dllthomas 11y ago"which is basically just printed money" This is not the case for most proposals I have seen.