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A living wage can be defined as: enough money in the particular location to rent an apartment suitable for human habitation, pay all necessary bills for heating
by JulianMorrison 9y ago
A living wage can be defined as: enough money in the particular location to rent an apartment suitable for human habitation, pay all necessary bills for heating, water, power, phone etc, eat nutritious if simple food, drink safe water, buy cheap but functional clothes and ordinary groceries, commute to work, and have a little over for leisure. If your locality is barbaric enough to charge money or require insurance for healthcare, that is included too. Automatically tracking for the price of any of the above with no political input permitted.
And make it a pull tax system. Tax take = cost of UBI. Tax sources = income, financial transactions, static wealth and savings, land value, job-replacing automation.
- nathanasmith 9y ago>If your locality is barbaric enough to charge money or require insurance for healthcare, that is included too. Eff you, condescending prick. A lecture about "barbarism" from the continent that fought the two most devastating wars of the 20th century and drug the rest of the world into your squabble. spit
- dang 9y agoPlease don't reply to a bad comment with a worse one. Personal attacks, in particular, will get you banned here, and ideological or national rants are not much better. Edit: Dismayingly, it looks like you've been making a habit of this. Would you please (re-)read https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and take the spirit of this site to heart when commenting from now on?