Comments by "DynamicWorlds" (@dynamicworlds1) on "Universal Basic Income Explained – Free Money for Everybody? UBI" video.

  1. Free market capitalism is just as much as an extremist position as Marxism. Sorry we don't treat the bs the country was indoctrinated with durring the cold war as a religion. Btw, as automation increases we'll have to choose between some form of communism, UBI, or a cyberpunk-style dystopia. I'm not apologizing for holding the moderate position on that.
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  2. Just give everyone a UBI and structure the income tax to get the money back from the rich. It's simpler and no one falls through the cracks.
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  3. Population growth slows to almost nothing when extreme poverty, lack of education, gender discrimination, and childhood mortality are adequately addressed. Even with no deliberate population controls, global population is expected to top out at 11 billion. (Which is higher than we'd like, but it's not infinite growth)
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  4. fl333r UBI should pretty obviously not start at a middle-class income, but a lot of jobs are pretty superfluous and/or about to be replaced by robots already. Waiting to 50% unemployment to institute this would be disastrous.
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  5. Um, no, that's not what the data shows, sorry. Please stop listening to supply-side economics as it's nonsense in any modern system. Jobs are created by demand, not charity by the rich. They didn't get that way by giving more than they get in return.
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  6. Poverty drives crime. Cut their income and they'll increasingly turn to more crime to cover the difference until they can't get out. Not saying no punishment of course (fines and jail time are of course fine), but what you're talking about almost guarantees perpetual recitivism
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  7. Alkerae exactly. Replacing things like minimum wage with a UBI would work wonders for our economy by leveling the playing field between employers and employees for the first time in history, and without the corruption unions often suffer from. Until both sides are just as free to walk away from the table, exploitation will continue.
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  8. Either you'd actually quickly get sick of that when actually faced with it (either through boredom or wanting more money), or you're a liability to your employer with your coworkers quietly picking up your slack. I assume it's the former.
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  9. And we have historically low taxes and historically high military spending, wealth inequality, and corporate profits. We can afford basically whatever we want at this point if we're willing to adjust our priorities.
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  10. Quote the more time people have and the less stressed they are about their basic needs, the more able they are to participate in their democratic government to limit corruption.
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  11. Lukas Dalenbring that automation scenario is already in progress as we speak.
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  12. Bill Schlafly better than paying a subscription AND microtransactions
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  13. Only if all the poor die or rise up to overthrow the economic system and forcefully redistribute the wealth. We've tried what you suggested many times throughout history and it always fails. Pick up a history book please. You can start by turning to "the roaring 20s" and just keep reading.
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  14. armweak13 if UBI is only given to citizens and replaces a minimum wage, illegal immigration would basically stop overnight, actually...and even if it didn't, who would care if an illegal immigrant wanted to come here for shit wages to pick fruit to make profits for some corporation who's taxes would be paying for our UBI?
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  15. Diego C. People that want more money. UBI works because all work leaves you economically better off. Sure, there's going to be an economic shift where jobs that make people miserable are going to be paid more relative to their relation to other job's wages currently, but I don't think that's a bad thing. All else being equal, shitty jobs should pay more than pleasant ones, and it's mainly exploitation of those who are too desperate to pass them up that is responsible for the current status quo. That will also encourage more of those jobs to be automated, which would also be good. Imagine if all soul-crushing jobs were either well paying or taken by machines. Doesn't that sound nice?
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  16. Yup, all non-universal aid programs create areas right above the cutoff point where it's better to make less money than make more and loose the benefits. Making all benefit programs univeral is the only system that doesn't create those problems which discourage and even limit social mobility.
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  17. And when they replace your job with a machine?
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  18. tapmy wire there aren't going to be enough jobs in robotic to replace all jobs that will disappear. That's just the reality of it.
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  19. Rodger Page that's why it's called UNIVERSAL basic income. If it's conditional, it isn't a UBI by definition.
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