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I really wonder what fantasy world you live in where the elites are just clamouring to institute a UBI. So far only a single congressperson that I am aware of
by 3131s 6y ago
I really wonder what fantasy world you live in where the elites are just clamouring to institute a UBI.
So far only a single congressperson that I am aware of has advocated for it, and that's Ilhan Omar, who is a hero of mine.
Why is it impossible to have a UBI alongside other nice things? What better proposal do you have to reduce wealth inequality?
- DoreenMichele 6y agoI spend a lot of time on Hacker News where, for a time at least, articles regularly appeared here about the desire of Sam Altman and Elon Musk to institute a UBI. A quick search would readily turn them up. Sam Altman has grown quieter about it, but his desire to make it real persists. He put $5 million of his own money into a UBI experiment when he was president of YC and, more recently, he backed some presidential candidate who was proposing UBI as part of his political platform. I think the candidate's name was Andrew Yang. My proposals: We fix the housing supply issues we have and institute universal health coverage in the US. Those two things would go a long ways towards improving things for the lower classes. I don't necessarily think it's impossible to have a UBI alongside "other nice things." I just know that what I've read so far doesn't at all bode well for UBI being a positive. Should I start hearing different things, I would be amenable to changing my mind. Given some of what happened during the pandemic, I'm cautiously hopeful that someday things will be different. But today does not seem to be that day.