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Yes I did, and no you did not. You made a drive-by shoot-down of an innocent idea without suggesting a better one or giving a single valid reason why you feel t

Yes I did, and no you did not. You made a drive-by shoot-down of an innocent idea without suggesting a better one or giving a single valid reason why you feel the idea is bad. If you don't have something to say that will improve the situation then maybe you should not comment.

easytiger 7y ago
> Yes I did No. Not that I can find > an innocent idea A random ill thought out idea, that I believe I politely stated doesn't work in reality, or as I pointed out operate in the parameters of reality. > without suggesting a better one Why would I have a suggestion for an invented non problem > giving a single valid reason Again, not my issue you didn't read On the topic of unproductive contestation, I think you have ironically become the thing you sought to destroy. So we will leave this here
- inimino 7y ago
  > I guess you didn't read the test [sic] of the comments then. >> Yes I did >>> No. Not that I can find Not sure where you'd find that. I read your comments, and found them wanting.
briandear 7y ago
The idea is bad because you just created an involuntary venture capital fund by taking money from people that didn’t necessarily want to “invest” it. It’s also a bad idea because we already have venture capitalist who fund “far fetched” ideas using money from willing participants rather than the public coffers. If you want to encourage more innovation, cut taxes on investment and capital gains to make it cheaper to invest. Cut regulations to make it easier for upstarts to disrupt the entrenched. But a national million dollar giveaway program for wild ideas? What could possibly go wrong?
- inimino 7y ago
  You made a couple good points. Now we're having a conversation! 1. You don't have a choice about investing in the future of your own country. You do that when you pay taxes. Like it or not. It does not matter. 2. Venture capitalists do not fund far fetched ideas, they FOMO lemming-like fund whatever every other idiot is already funding. Lots of people in favor of UBI simultaneously hate the idea of merit-based "big money" grants for ideas. Maybe because they don't want public opportunity programs to dry up the pool of broke-ass idealistic post-docs with big ideas and no chance to ever see any of them get funded.

easytiger 7y ago

> Yes I did No. Not that I can find > an innocent idea A random ill thought out idea, that I believe I politely stated doesn't work in reality, or as I pointed out operate in the parameters of reality. > without suggesting a better one Why would I have a suggestion for an invented non problem > giving a single valid reason Again, not my issue you didn't read On the topic of unproductive contestation, I think you have ironically become the thing you sought to destroy. So we will leave this here

inimino 7y ago
> I guess you didn't read the test [sic] of the comments then. >> Yes I did >>> No. Not that I can find Not sure where you'd find that. I read your comments, and found them wanting.

briandear 7y ago

The idea is bad because you just created an involuntary venture capital fund by taking money from people that didn’t necessarily want to “invest” it. It’s also a bad idea because we already have venture capitalist who fund “far fetched” ideas using money from willing participants rather than the public coffers. If you want to encourage more innovation, cut taxes on investment and capital gains to make it cheaper to invest. Cut regulations to make it easier for upstarts to disrupt the entrenched. But a national million dollar giveaway program for wild ideas? What could possibly go wrong?

inimino 7y ago
You made a couple good points. Now we're having a conversation! 1. You don't have a choice about investing in the future of your own country. You do that when you pay taxes. Like it or not. It does not matter. 2. Venture capitalists do not fund far fetched ideas, they FOMO lemming-like fund whatever every other idiot is already funding. Lots of people in favor of UBI simultaneously hate the idea of merit-based "big money" grants for ideas. Maybe because they don't want public opportunity programs to dry up the pool of broke-ass idealistic post-docs with big ideas and no chance to ever see any of them get funded.