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by chillacy 7y ago
There's talk about cutting checks to Americans directly in the mainstream now (MSNBC). It's almost UBI-esque (it's at least technically a "conditional cash transfer program"). The reasoning being that right now they
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by chillacy 7y ago
I don’t know if the ends should justify the means. Apple is the only pro privacy player in the space but they still run their developer programs with an iron fist.
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by chillacy 7y ago
I don't think E2EE and guns are exactly the same but I can't help but notice that the arguments that always get brought up by E2EE hardliners are pretty similar to those of gun supporters. Namely: 1. It's vilified, by the num
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by chillacy 7y ago
The third book of the Three Body Problem is pretty amazing to read if you like sci-fi which goes to the heat death of the universe.
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by chillacy 7y ago
That assumes that there's one linear cultural progression and America is simply a younger version of Europe. I don't think that's necessarily true. It could be that America is on a different cultural arc entirely, driven by
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by chillacy 7y ago
It's equally unrealistic to assume that UBI will exactly affect salaries by canceling them out. You're right that there will be effects, and they're likely to be dependent on job as well. For instance basic income may mean sa
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by chillacy 7y ago
You can usually google articles and it goes around paywalls, otherwise you can just google for Charles Murray's UBI plan. There are a bunch of UBI plans, which all vary across the political spectrum. Some are financed entirely with pro
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by chillacy 7y ago
Yea the basic income in the study seems to be means tested so it might incentivize people to quit. Just want to point out that a universal income would be constant regardless of job held, so there's no incentive to quit. If the UBI amo
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by chillacy 7y ago
> from eating into other welfare checks I think that's the point for most UBI proposals. The most cash-like welfare programs are TANF and SNAP, they pay out on the order of $250 (depending on state), are temporary, hard to obtain, a
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by chillacy 7y ago
You're already being coerced to pay for social services, I wouldn't compare UBI to an anarcho-capitalist paradise, but the current situation, and many UBI proposals are much better than the status quo.
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by chillacy 7y ago
We already know that social security greatly reduces poverty https://www.cbpp.org/research/social-security/social-securit... It's just hard to maintain from a balanced budget perspective. > One wonders how
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by chillacy 7y ago
They can be made the same: https://taxfoundation.org/universal-basic-income-ubi-means-t... I think UBI has advantages in its universality, where it's not perceived as a rich to poor transfer (even though it really is)
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by chillacy 7y ago
I would think that thousands of people like you trying to build something innovative and new would be well worth the investment in those who try and fail or those who are content to "waste it away" (spending their UBI and doing no
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by chillacy 7y ago
The Harvard economist Greg Mankiew has a talk where he shows how a UBI + flat tax could behave the same as a progressive tax + phased out UBI: https://taxfoundation.org/universal-basic-income-ubi-means-t...
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by chillacy 7y ago
You threw out $1000 a month, any reason? Different proposals use different amounts, $1k a month happens to be in the Yang proposal (Freedom Dividend) which was funded largely from a consumption tax: https://freedom-dividend.com&#
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by chillacy 7y ago
With basic income you make $4000 + $1000, which removes the discontinuities associated with means testing. Whether increased taxes used to pay for the UBI end up eating up your UBI depends on the plan and how much you make/spend. Some
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by chillacy 7y ago
It depends if the market is demand-side or supply-side constrained. If everyone had more money and wanted a new TV, TV manufacturers would just spin up production to meet demand over time. If everyone needs a house and housing is restricted
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by chillacy 7y ago
I almost drowned in one of these wave pools as a teenager and I had been swimming every summer in swim camps (so a decent swimmer). In my case it was because there were so many people in the pool that I could barely move, after struggling t
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by chillacy 7y ago
It’s always sobering to remember that we live in bubbles.
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by chillacy 7y ago
That article doesn't seem to support "because they were malnourished" at all... it correctly points out that the 1918 pandemic was unique in having high mortality among the young (under 30) due to "Lack of pre-existing v
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by chillacy 7y ago
More people died from the Spanish Flu than from combat in WW1 and WW2 combined. That was the first global pandemic due to soldiers traveling around the world. What's a modern version going to look like in an era of airplane travel?
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by chillacy 7y ago
Yes that’s the whole point as the poster pointed out. The Nazis arguing on the grandma’s post would also disagree with the censors too —it’s not a matter of censorship vs none, is a matter of what is considered worthy of censorship in China
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by chillacy 7y ago
It always seems like these programs being attackable is a benefit because it lets you continuously rally passionate donors to always fight for the programs and fund campaigns. Conversely, stable universal programs don't draw as much at
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by chillacy 7y ago
It really depends on the reason to prefer to date a particular race. A: If it's aesthetic, sure (though one might ponder to what extent euro-centric beauty standards are indicative of inherent attractiveness vs a desire to fit into the
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by chillacy 7y ago
A Negative Income Tax which phases out would work too (though I think a UBI would be more popular and thus resilient to budget cuts, as Alaska has shown). The wonderful thing about cash (UBI, NIT, EITC) is that it's easy to divide up a
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by chillacy 7y ago
Regarding the "basics to everyone" for programs, they're typically labeled "universal", and there are a number of advantages to universal programs: 1. They tend to be more resilient to budget cuts since everyone is
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by chillacy 7y ago
There's no question that limiting the supply of labor in a job market increases its price. I just don't think it's worth the price. For unions there's an extra layer of overhead and union dues. For professional societies
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by chillacy 7y ago
A YouTube series I’ve been enjoying recently talks about the amount of FaceTune and photoshop which goes into influencer photos: https://youtu.be/eJvQ0Ml1v6I He has a similar series on facial attractiveness which is interes
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by chillacy 7y ago
Many of us make more money writing software today than we could working one of those unionized jobs while having less credentialing (or not being in the top 1% like the sports players). Nothing on that list looks enviable to me.
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by chillacy 7y ago
It was interesting to see the lengths management went through to prevent a union from forming. The show ends with management getting excited about their now robotic arms. Robots don't unionize and complain about healthcare.

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