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It's not possible. Rail workers get paid pretty well. If you're making $100,000/yr and supporting a middle class family, you can't have UBI that matches that
by refurb 4y ago
It's not possible.
Rail workers get paid pretty well. If you're making $100,000/yr and supporting a middle class family, you can't have UBI that matches that income level.
Getting $40,000/yr might be enough for a single person, but even then it's a huge change in lifestyle and often impossible to adjust (mortgage, car payments, etc).
- danaris 4y agoIn situations like this, the point isn't to have a UBI that matches the income level of an upper-middle-class job. It's to have something to decrease your burn rate, so you don't have to worry about being homeless next week.
- refurb 4y agoSure, but there isn't much difference between "I have to stay at my job or end up homeless" or "I have to stay at my job or else I can't afford my mortgage and will have to sell my cars and my kids can't go to summer camp". Clearly the 2nd one is better, but it's still a very serious decision that has consequences most people would avoid.
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