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 Post subject: Re: (Universal Basic Income) Freedom Dividend of $1K/Month
PostPosted: Tue July 02, 2019 5:23 pm 
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I definitely think it's capable of eliminating your make-work position, if that's what you're driving at.
And every other job.


Imagine a world where no one needs to post.
No one needs to post as it is. What an odd thing to say.


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You came in like a wrecking ball, Jon

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its really tiresome to see these ¨good guys¨ talking about any political stuff in tv while also being kinda funny and hip and cool....its just...please enough of this shit.


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 Post subject: Re: (Universal Basic Income) Freedom Dividend of $1K/Month
PostPosted: Tue July 02, 2019 5:25 pm 
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Mickey wrote:
tree_ wrote:
Mickey wrote:
tree_ wrote:
Mickey wrote:
tree_ wrote:
Mickey wrote:
I definitely think it's capable of eliminating your make-work position, if that's what you're driving at.
And every other job.


Imagine a world where no one needs to post.
No one needs to post as it is. What an odd thing to say.


Desire is defined by its condition of never achieving its object. Ceaselessly we are borne back into the fray (the forum)
"It's about the climb." - Miley Cyrus


You came in like a wrecking ball, Jon
So I put my hands up
They're playing my song, the butterflies fly away
I'm noddin' my head like, 'yeah'
Movin' my hips like, 'yeah'
Got my hands up, they're playing my song
They know I'm gonna be okay
Yeah, it's a party in the U.S.A
Yeah, it's a party with the U.B.I

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 Post subject: Re: (Universal Basic Income) Freedom Dividend of $1K/Month
PostPosted: Tue July 02, 2019 10:21 pm 
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Mickey is so desperate to believe that you have to spend the majority of your life in academia cock gobbling some tenured professor to achieve true success. Robots will eat your shit up bro.

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 Post subject: Re: (Universal Basic Income) Freedom Dividend of $1K/Month
PostPosted: Tue July 02, 2019 10:24 pm 
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I don't even remotely believe that.

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VinylGuy wrote:
its really tiresome to see these ¨good guys¨ talking about any political stuff in tv while also being kinda funny and hip and cool....its just...please enough of this shit.


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 Post subject: Re: (Universal Basic Income) Freedom Dividend of $1K/Month
PostPosted: Tue July 02, 2019 11:18 pm 
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Tulsi said on the JRE she is looking into UBI. She's very interested in implementing it, also, but working out the details, she said.


There is no solution there. Like MMT, it's an academic pipe dream.
I'm no economist but from the research I've done, it looks good. It needs to be done right, like any other thing, in order to succeed.


If it needs to be “done right”, are you sure it’s not so convoluted that it could never work outside of a model?

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 Post subject: Re: (Universal Basic Income) Freedom Dividend of $1K/Month
PostPosted: Tue July 02, 2019 11:27 pm 
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There is a long-shot bill in the Massachusetts state house to pilot a UBI program.
https://boston.cbslocal.com/2019/06/23/universal-basic-income-massachusetts-bill-test/

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 Post subject: Re: (Universal Basic Income) Freedom Dividend of $1K/Month
PostPosted: Wed July 03, 2019 12:33 am 
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Bi_3 wrote:
tree_ wrote:
Bi_3 wrote:
tree_ wrote:
Tulsi said on the JRE she is looking into UBI. She's very interested in implementing it, also, but working out the details, she said.


There is no solution there. Like MMT, it's an academic pipe dream.
I'm no economist but from the research I've done, it looks good. It needs to be done right, like any other thing, in order to succeed.


If it needs to be “done right”, are you sure it’s not so convoluted that it could never work outside of a model?


It might work better after more and more job sectors get eliminated entirely.

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 Post subject: Re: (Universal Basic Income) Freedom Dividend of $1K/Month
PostPosted: Wed July 03, 2019 12:42 am 
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 Post subject: Re: (Universal Basic Income) Freedom Dividend of $1K/Month
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 Post subject: Re: (Universal Basic Income) Freedom Dividend of $1K/Month
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 Post subject: Re: (Universal Basic Income) Freedom Dividend of $1K/Month
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BurtReynolds wrote:
Can't wait until they put qualifiers on getting your $1000 a month. You gotta vote a certain way, think a certain way, not get any demerits on your social credit score, etc, or you don't get your monthly bag.

"It's free money"


:roll:

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 Post subject: Re: (Universal Basic Income) Freedom Dividend of $1K/Month
PostPosted: Wed July 03, 2019 2:04 am 
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 Post subject: Re: (Universal Basic Income) Freedom Dividend of $1K/Month
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Bi_3 wrote:
tree_ wrote:
Bi_3 wrote:
tree_ wrote:
Tulsi said on the JRE she is looking into UBI. She's very interested in implementing it, also, but working out the details, she said.


There is no solution there. Like MMT, it's an academic pipe dream.
I'm no economist but from the research I've done, it looks good. It needs to be done right, like any other thing, in order to succeed.


If it needs to be “done right”, are you sure it’s not so convoluted that it could never work outside of a model?
everything can either be done well or poorly.. some things are more appropriate for the times

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 Post subject: Re: (Universal Basic Income) Freedom Dividend of $1K/Month
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*micro apartments

ie. The RiDE at RiNo


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