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> UBI would bankrupt the nation, so would a large scale job guarantee program as described. > When asked to put a dollar value on a program the overeducated go
by pjmorris 4y ago
> UBI would bankrupt the nation, so would a large scale job guarantee program as described.
> When asked to put a dollar value on a program the overeducated go on bleeting about higher order non-sense.
Being overeducated, I'll take a shot: 6 million US unemployed x $15/hour x 2000 hours/year x 2 to cover benefits, SSI, Medicare, etc works out to 360 Billion. Which is about 1/4 of the defense department budget. A lot of money but not disproportionate to what we spend on other things.
- blue039 4y ago1/4 of the defense budget used to protect the entire world. If we didn't have to do that, I'd agree. I'm gonna take a long shot and say your education did not cover that part of world history.
- pjmorris 4y agoYou appear to think I meant to take 1/4 of the defense budget. That was only to illustrate the magnitude. You could cherry-pick your favorite US budgetary item instead and spare history.
- euroderf 4y agoJust an aside here, that if that UBI was in exchange for ten or twelve hours a week of mostly-unskilled work from the unemployed on whatever the city or town decides is valuable, it might make a very visible improvement to community life.