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Comment Re:Good! (Score 1) 126

So conservatives should be on board with it, right?

For all the reasons you posted, yes. But it just doesn't pencil out. There just aren't enough wealthy to fund a true Universal Basic Income. If you completely cleaned out the corporate executive class, and I mean down to zero, it would make a nice Christmas bonus for the working class. Not great, just nice. Add in the poor and non-working and you'd never really see it. We've done the math.

It has worked on an experimental basis when you apply it to a very small slice of the population for a short time. But these experiments have never looked at the impacts on the overall economy for a large program.

Comment Re:Good! (Score 1) 126

you've killed the whole village

I suggest you look at how most communal societies dealt with members refusing to do their share of the work. Go ahead. Google it*. I dare you.

*Google might not work. It has been sanitized to remove references to sites not in support of the standard narratives. Try another search site.

Comment Re:Good! (Score 1) 126

It is a really a stretch to convert "prosperity and opportunity for all" into "everyone attains the same outcome."

This is true. But it's a stretch that one political side makes all the time. Search for "opportunity vs outcome" and educate yourself. do some reading. Go ahead. I dare you.

18th century French redistribution will be way more likely.

Study history. The French Revolution (the first one) wasn't about the aristocracy vs the poor. The poor really didn't see any benefits until long after the reign of Napoleon.

Comment Re:Good! (Score 0, Troll) 126

prosperity and opportunity for all.

Eqality vs equity. Define "all".

What do we do if not everyone attains the same outcome? Do we have to wait until the last homeless bum achieves the suburban home with two cars in every garage? Will we have to stop and redistribute wealth periodically to ensure this eqitable prosperity?

Comment Re:Bullying works. (Score 1) 128

We need to bully people on this.

Come on over to my health club and give it a try. They put up a sign about not taking photos of people without permission. The signs are now gone. Evidently, there was a controversy over taking selfies in the gym vs "accidentally" catching someone in the background. The selfie crowd won. We can't even do anything about the twinks with cellphones in the locker room. Cell phone use is now an entitlement.

Anecdote: Some time ago, a couple of the hot babes in the gym were setting up a phone on a stand to record themselves (doing jumping jacks, not doubt). But they had set their tripod up sort of half way behind a column in the calisthenics area. Which would have made a shitty picture. Thought about it for a sec and concluded that they were trying to make the video look like some perv sneaking pictures. Post that somewhere anonymously and one can maintain an air of indignation while still attracting attention. Post a video, centered and well composed and people will just think conceited, stuck up, ...

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