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I agree though. If we ever want to have a chance at closing the gap between low and middle classes, then we need a basic income for people making under a certai

I agree though. If we ever want to have a chance at closing the gap between low and middle classes, then we need a basic income for people making under a certain income. Taking away the hardships of deciding whether to put gas in your car or get groceries isn't a decision someone should have to make. An extra $500-1K per month for those people would make a world of difference and ease a lot of those everyday decisions. The utopia would be having low income housing running on solar with affordable EV's for people under a certain income level as well. Combined with a basic income, it would certainly make a huge decrease in poverty and allow these people to bootstrap themselves into the middle class. EDIT: for poor math skills. lol

6gvONxR4sf7o 6y ago
Can I ask where you heard that we could have given every person in the country a million each? I've seen that quoted all over the place, and can't figure out why, given that it's off by a factor of about a hundred.
repsilat 6y ago
> could've given every person in the country a million dollars each That'd be $329 trillion[1], which is on the order of 100x what we spent. 1: https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=%241+million%2Fperson+*+population+of+UsA https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=%241+million%2Fperson+...
ptomato 6y ago
> we just had several trillion dollar stimulus bills that could've given every person in the country a million dollars damn, didn't know covid killed 99% of the US population. rough.
geitir 6y ago
That's completely incorrect. If you take the us population over 18, that is 209 million. If we assumed 5% are wealthy, that's 198 million who would need to get 1 million dollars. If you multiply 1 million by 198 million, you 198 trillion dollars.
FredPret 6y ago
It’s ironic that, in a post promoting basic income, you make an error in arithmetic amounting to hundreds of trillions of dollars

6gvONxR4sf7o 6y ago

Can I ask where you heard that we could have given every person in the country a million each? I've seen that quoted all over the place, and can't figure out why, given that it's off by a factor of about a hundred.

repsilat 6y ago

> could've given every person in the country a million dollars each That'd be $329 trillion[1], which is on the order of 100x what we spent. 1: https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=%241+million%2Fperson+*+population+of+UsA https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=%241+million%2Fperson+...

ptomato 6y ago

> we just had several trillion dollar stimulus bills that could've given every person in the country a million dollars damn, didn't know covid killed 99% of the US population. rough.

geitir 6y ago

That's completely incorrect. If you take the us population over 18, that is 209 million. If we assumed 5% are wealthy, that's 198 million who would need to get 1 million dollars. If you multiply 1 million by 198 million, you 198 trillion dollars.

FredPret 6y ago

It’s ironic that, in a post promoting basic income, you make an error in arithmetic amounting to hundreds of trillions of dollars