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Bob needs to work because Bob wants to buy nicer things and lead a fuller life than sitting around playing video games in a dirty shack like Fred. Bob's work i
by nyhc99 6y ago
Bob needs to work because Bob wants to buy nicer things and lead a fuller life than sitting around playing video games in a dirty shack like Fred.
Bob's work isn't subsidizing Fred's lifestyle unfairly (at least under Yang's proposal) because the UBI is paid for by a tax on consumption (the VAT)
- twblalock 6y ago> Bob's work isn't subsidizing Fred's lifestyle unfairly (at least under Yang's proposal) because the UBI is paid for by a tax on consumption (the VAT) So then it's Bob's consumption that subsidizes Fred? That doesn't seem fair either. When Bob consumes, he spends money he earned through work. One way or another, money he earned is taken from him and given to Fred.
- WalterBright 6y agoI suggest you and Andrew Yang start giving Surfer Fred a cut of your paychecks every month. I bet the idea palls after you pass Fred hurrying to the beach with his surfboard as you drive to work.
- Frondo 6y agoDid your wife run off with a surfer? People are trying to express this idea that the "people will be lazy and content themselves with a meager UBI" is not an accurate one, and nearly every reply you've made has been a nonsequitor about how we should presumably be resentful at paying surfers to surf.
- twblalock 6y agoThere are two kinds of people who need to be contented with UBI: those who choose not to work, and those who keep working. Nothing I've seen in this thread would satisfy the people who keep working. Most people feel a fundamental sense of moral injustice and outrage when people who work are forced to support people who could work but choose not to. That is why our current welfare systems have means testing.
- nyhc99 6y agoApparently you don't understand what a tax on consumption is.