I'm playing the nuclear lottery. I don't think we will be better off in 50-100 years. In fact I think we are going to kill each other again. We have an imperial nation dominating the globe and another up-and-coming that has so far gone unchecked. Fighting for your freedom is never pretty.
China is slated to dominate Russia and Putin, who will be gone leaving a vacuum, has done nothing to stop it. He is actually allowing China to integrate through Siberia. If the US does not radically shift for the better, and soon, it will get very nasty.
China is actively constructing a global trade route and logistics infrastructure that spans the globe (part of it right through Russia). What is the US or rest of the Western world doing to compete? Fighting among themselves about gender issues.
Everyone should get the UBI...no clawback. It creates class divisions when you claw it back. The UBI, in theory, would hide while accomplishing its goals.
" Even now with this great low-unemployment is employers complaining how they can't get "qualified" people."
They suck at hiring...just about everyone does....and they can't get qualified people at the rate they have been told is acceptable or based on the market from whatever douchebag HR database or periodical they read. Did I mention that people REALLY suck at hiring? In cases where I see companies that do not have problems finding qualified people, they have been retaining and promoting from within. If you churn through people because your culture sucks their will to live you will end up with a serious problem. A problem that always takes sociopaths by surprise when the "expendable" employees dry up.
It is becoming obvious why the housing crisis is worsening by the day. Moist people are fucking clueless.
You can't stay with your parents at that rate.
You ramble all these numbers but do not consider that the only way a lot of welfare families make it is through fraud. Boyfriend lives with mom of one/two of his children but mom does not report him as a resident in the home. They have his income AND her welfare benefits. The soda never runs dry and premium cable and xbox subscriptions are the standard. Source: I lived and worked in a poor community for ten years.
Same here. Then I bought a new house, new truck, new camper (well, two campers), fired up a constant flow from Amazon, went on tons of vacations, paid my taxes (well, mostly), another new truck (bigger) to haul the bigger camper.....jesus fuck what have I done?!
Several new wardrobes, remodelled new house, bought a pool, took up cycling (crazy expensive), sent my son to Europe,....OMG...I have to stop...
It is easy to get sucked into "Keeping up with the Jones." It typically follows after leaving poverty, you end up back in poverty but with a good income.
UBI is an economic program/idea that does not have an economic outcome as its ultimate purpose. Quit trying to find a return on investment. This is a new way of organizing ourselves to shift the focus away from accumulating things. The ROI you seek will never show up on greenbar. This is not an accounting problem.
I'm a liberal-conservative (non-voter by choice) who is really pumped about the possibility of UBI in the US. I think we need to change a few other things instead of just introducing UBI in a vacuum. Health insurance, consumer data protection, and probably a few other things I can't think of right now need changed in order to make UBI work from a numbers and social outcomes perspective. Another thing, you should probably stop punishing savings by taxing income before implementing UBI as well.
Widespread UBI will have impacts that are unforseen. One is the possible explosion of the gig economy.
Control, like the control you have over a container ship. When the weather is nice and everything is working correctly you feel in control. Reality? You are never really in control.
Your post made me realize that FB admins could monetize using the API already. If someone doesn't pay you can just drop them. Payment would be outside of FB...but not much different and no way for FB to track that you are monetizing.
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Now if they could only get Hundredthou...
Tencent goin' platnum? Shit yo.
This is the fox identifying the principles of hen house security.
We could have the 1% pay for it. that way we could go back to honoring them and they could feel good about themselves again.
Please define "advancing as a society" before you throw it around.
Shift to a gig economy and forget about classifying Part-time, full-time. ...and then forget about the other stuff you said too.
I'm playing the nuclear lottery. I don't think we will be better off in 50-100 years. In fact I think we are going to kill each other again. We have an imperial nation dominating the globe and another up-and-coming that has so far gone unchecked. Fighting for your freedom is never pretty.
China is slated to dominate Russia and Putin, who will be gone leaving a vacuum, has done nothing to stop it. He is actually allowing China to integrate through Siberia. If the US does not radically shift for the better, and soon, it will get very nasty.
China is actively constructing a global trade route and logistics infrastructure that spans the globe (part of it right through Russia). What is the US or rest of the Western world doing to compete? Fighting among themselves about gender issues.
Personally, I would like to build homes instead of enterprise shitballs. Sitting in front of a computer is a bad career decision.
"A household at America's poverty line is still better off than 85% of the world."
That is a meaningless statement. It doe not matter to them since their basic needs have been fulfilled. They have their eyes on the next step.
Universal == fucking everybody!
Everyone gets it regardless of need. It is not another welfare program for fuck's sake. It is an idea aimed at fixing what welfare has and is causing.
You need to look into UBI because you sound uninformed. "it feels?"
"because politicians will keep reducing the safety net whenever they think people are slacking"
I see zero evidence of this. Government is not capable of taking anything back or reducing benefits.
Everyone should get the UBI...no clawback. It creates class divisions when you claw it back. The UBI, in theory, would hide while accomplishing its goals.
"Hope you enjoy your job at Walmart... they do at least offer a path to promotion."
Yay...get promoted...lose welfare...end up with less. Most people opt away from that shit.
" Even now with this great low-unemployment is employers complaining how they can't get "qualified" people."
They suck at hiring...just about everyone does. ...and they can't get qualified people at the rate they have been told is acceptable or based on the market from whatever douchebag HR database or periodical they read.
Did I mention that people REALLY suck at hiring? In cases where I see companies that do not have problems finding qualified people, they have been retaining and promoting from within. If you churn through people because your culture sucks their will to live you will end up with a serious problem. A problem that always takes sociopaths by surprise when the "expendable" employees dry up.
"Do you give them another sack of money and hope they make better choices that will allow them to do some productive the next time around? "
That's what we do for banks and startups.
$300-$500 for rent?
It is becoming obvious why the housing crisis is worsening by the day. Moist people are fucking clueless.
You can't stay with your parents at that rate.
You ramble all these numbers but do not consider that the only way a lot of welfare families make it is through fraud. Boyfriend lives with mom of one/two of his children but mom does not report him as a resident in the home. They have his income AND her welfare benefits. The soda never runs dry and premium cable and xbox subscriptions are the standard. Source: I lived and worked in a poor community for ten years.
Yeah...cause poor people are always weighing and factoring opportunity costs you nerdy douche.
There is no entitlement with UBI. Everyone gets the benefit...CEO down to the janitor.
Same here. Then I bought a new house, new truck, new camper (well, two campers), fired up a constant flow from Amazon, went on tons of vacations, paid my taxes (well, mostly), another new truck (bigger) to haul the bigger camper.....jesus fuck what have I done?!
Several new wardrobes, remodelled new house, bought a pool, took up cycling (crazy expensive), sent my son to Europe, ....OMG...I have to stop...
It is easy to get sucked into "Keeping up with the Jones." It typically follows after leaving poverty, you end up back in poverty but with a good income.
You just became the problem.
UBI is an economic program/idea that does not have an economic outcome as its ultimate purpose. Quit trying to find a return on investment. This is a new way of organizing ourselves to shift the focus away from accumulating things. The ROI you seek will never show up on greenbar. This is not an accounting problem.
I'm a liberal-conservative (non-voter by choice) who is really pumped about the possibility of UBI in the US. I think we need to change a few other things instead of just introducing UBI in a vacuum. Health insurance, consumer data protection, and probably a few other things I can't think of right now need changed in order to make UBI work from a numbers and social outcomes perspective. Another thing, you should probably stop punishing savings by taxing income before implementing UBI as well.
Widespread UBI will have impacts that are unforseen. One is the possible explosion of the gig economy.
Wow. You really triggered on that one.
Control, like the control you have over a container ship. When the weather is nice and everything is working correctly you feel in control. Reality? You are never really in control.
Your post made me realize that FB admins could monetize using the API already. If someone doesn't pay you can just drop them. Payment would be outside of FB...but not much different and no way for FB to track that you are monetizing.