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Nik Jewell
Nik Jewell
1 year ago

‘Oooo! Free money!’.
‘Here you go, be good now’.

Nik Jewell
Nik Jewell
1 year ago

‘Oooo! Free money!’.
‘Here you go, be good now’.

Andrew Wise
Andrew Wise
1 year ago

Left wing economics will, like pop, eventually eat itself

Andrew Wise
Andrew Wise
1 year ago

Left wing economics will, like pop, eventually eat itself

Cho Jinn
Cho Jinn
1 year ago

You will have nothing, and be happy.

Cho Jinn
Cho Jinn
1 year ago

You will have nothing, and be happy.

Matt Hindman
Matt Hindman
1 year ago

I seem to remember regular Americans and small businesses getting billions while corporate America got trillions.

Matt Hindman
Matt Hindman
1 year ago

I seem to remember regular Americans and small businesses getting billions while corporate America got trillions.

Warren Trees
Warren Trees
1 year ago

Was this piece written by AI?

Warren Trees
Warren Trees
1 year ago

Was this piece written by AI?

Max Price
Max Price
1 year ago

I just hope the Soma is good.

Last edited 1 year ago by Max Price
Max Price
Max Price
1 year ago

I just hope the Soma is good.

Last edited 1 year ago by Max Price
Dougie Undersub
Dougie Undersub
1 year ago

Give a man a fish, etc. Give a man money for doing nothing and you encourage indolence and promote a culture of helplessness.

Dougie Undersub
Dougie Undersub
1 year ago

Give a man a fish, etc. Give a man money for doing nothing and you encourage indolence and promote a culture of helplessness.

tim richardson
tim richardson
1 year ago

Alaska is one of the Red-est states in the Union; I lived there for 13 years. Hunters, oil field roughnecks, survivalists and many like-minded individuals.
They all receive (once they prove state residence) Alaska’s Permanent Fund Dividend once per year. Going back the last 10 years, the payment has been between $1000 and $2000 dollars – hardly enough to live on.
Why is Hilary using the Alaska model as the model for UBI?

tim richardson
tim richardson
1 year ago

Alaska is one of the Red-est states in the Union; I lived there for 13 years. Hunters, oil field roughnecks, survivalists and many like-minded individuals.
They all receive (once they prove state residence) Alaska’s Permanent Fund Dividend once per year. Going back the last 10 years, the payment has been between $1000 and $2000 dollars – hardly enough to live on.
Why is Hilary using the Alaska model as the model for UBI?

laurence scaduto
laurence scaduto
1 year ago

The author misses the point that both the old-style welfare system and the desire to “mobilize groups of people for political objectives” are no longer effective or feasible.
The welfare systems of old categorized imagined typical people-in-need and served their imagined needs. But very few actually fit the mold, so everyone was gaming the system; it got pretty comical over the years.
And mobilizing groups of people for political objectives just doesn’t work too well anymore. The powers-that-be have learned to sidestep and ignore protests. And boycotts interfere with our favorite passtime; shopping. So only the few objectives that the activists, the powers-that-be and half of the politicians all agree on (climate change, Black lives, vaccines, etc.) get any attention. For instance, everyone’s big on Black lives but no one really talks about police reform. So the police keep killing people but no one bothers to wonder how many non-Black people wind up that way. As long as the issue comes down to race we can expect the same old result; no change, continued carnage.

Last edited 1 year ago by laurence scaduto
laurence scaduto
laurence scaduto
1 year ago

The author misses the point that both the old-style welfare system and the desire to “mobilize groups of people for political objectives” are no longer effective or feasible.
The welfare systems of old categorized imagined typical people-in-need and served their imagined needs. But very few actually fit the mold, so everyone was gaming the system; it got pretty comical over the years.
And mobilizing groups of people for political objectives just doesn’t work too well anymore. The powers-that-be have learned to sidestep and ignore protests. And boycotts interfere with our favorite passtime; shopping. So only the few objectives that the activists, the powers-that-be and half of the politicians all agree on (climate change, Black lives, vaccines, etc.) get any attention. For instance, everyone’s big on Black lives but no one really talks about police reform. So the police keep killing people but no one bothers to wonder how many non-Black people wind up that way. As long as the issue comes down to race we can expect the same old result; no change, continued carnage.

Last edited 1 year ago by laurence scaduto