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Mark Zuckerberg Doubles Down On Universal Basic Income, Calls It a 'Bipartisan Issue' (cnbc.com)
Mark Zuckerberg praised the Alaska Permanent Fund and used it as another platform to lobby for universal basic income, as he did during his commencement address to Harvard in May. The Alaska Permanent Fund was established in 1976 as the Alaska pipeline construction neared completion. According to CNBC, the "goal was to share the oil riches with future generations." From the report: Zuckerberg says the state's cash handout program "provides some good lessons for the rest of the country." The dividend averages $1000 (or more) per person. "That can be especially meaningful if your family has five or six people," says Zuckerberg in a post he wrote about the payment. "This is a novel approach to basic income in a few ways. First, it's funded by natural resources rather than raising taxes. Second, it comes from conservative principles of smaller government, rather than progressive principles of a larger safety net," says Zuckerberg. "This shows basic income is a bipartisan idea." Fundamentally, Zuckerberg says people think and work differently when they have their basic needs met. "Seeing how Alaska put this dividend in place reminded me of a lesson I learned early at Facebook: organizations think profoundly differently when they're profitable than when they're in debt. When you're losing money, your mentality is largely about survival," says Zuckerberg. "But when you're profitable, you're confident about your future and you look for opportunities to invest and grow further. Alaska's economy has historically created this winning mentality, which has led to this basic income. That may be a lesson for the rest of the country as well."
No, there's fundamental differences in philosophy behind those who want their lives dependent on the government and those that don't.
You can't be serious. Silicon Valley money dwarfs the Koch bros. How many of those folks vote for Republicans? Sorry, the Koch bros meme is outdated by about 10-15 years.
Sure Mark, why don't you share some of the ad revenue from your site with the users that are contributing to it... let's see what your stockholders say.
love is just extroverted narcissism
You just want to play video games. Mommy's basement gamer clicking "like!" "like!" "like!" on UBI stories. She's on board as well; no hope of getting rid of you otherwise.
Maw! Fire up the karma burner!
See Venezuela for REAL WORLD examples of how socialism plays out... Similar to Communism, it creates POOR, DESTITUTE populations, and crime SKYROCKETS! Socialism is a MENTAL Disorder. One that makes people feel like the world OWES them a living... Newsflash... It Doesn't, and NEVER will. :-D
it's the poor people's responsibility to take care of themselves too. can't afford 5 kids, 2 kids, 1 kid, don't have them.
and before everyone jumps on the "it's not the kids fault" band wagon. those kids will be tomorrow's adults making the same irresponsible decisions just like their parents were once kids of parents who made irresponsible decisions.
It's not the responsibility of the wealthy or anyone else to take care of anyone they didn't have a hand in creating. and it's no one else's responsibility to take care of me and mine. it's my responsibility to take care of them.
No, I'm no where near wealthy.