It comes from, surprise surprise, the cyclical economic pool.
The United States GDP per capita is 53,041.98 USD (2013). This is nearly $4000 per month. Assuming that approximately 33 percent of the American population would qualify for minimum basic income, it would constitute less than the country's annual military spending to utterly eliminate homelessness, poverty, starvation, lack of education and illiteracy, as well as drastically improving a nation's psychological health.
Constantly screaming "WHERE DOES IT COME FROM?!?!" is significantly less helpful and constructive than actually reading the f***ing articles and finding out where it comes from.
Well, thank goodness you gave it a cursory glance. I'm sure that's a far more detailed and nuanced approach than the hundreds of economists who have spent literally decades working out the minutiae of minimum basic income.
I can't believe they wasted their lives like that, when you could have saved them all that work.
And before everyone goes "ERHMAHGHERD THE TAXPAYERS NEED TO SUPPORT A NATION OF HOMELESS JOBLESS BUMS!!!!", maybe consider the fact that you already are, except no-one's quality of life is actually improved.
But their censorship is already wildly variable and pointless.
Skinny naked Asian girls with tiny squares of electrical tape over their nipples: absolutely fine, 500,000 views.
A buxom woman wearing a full multi-layered outfit: 3000 views, reported for inappropriate content, owner fined.
I want to make almost all drugs legal, or at the very least not a jailable offense. I was just making a point about how, just because the government SAYS something is good/bad/true/false, that doesn't necessarily make it so. I'm trying to get people thinking.
Then I realized this is Slashdot, and I'm wasting my breath.
A person makes X dollars. He is determined to be "poor" or "not poor" based on Government definitions. Being "poor" or "not poor" affects what you can do, such as getting government stipends to help you out.
A person commits X act. He is determined to be "criminal" or "not criminal" based on Government definitions. Being "criminal" or "not criminal" affects what you can do, such as getting a decent-paying job.
Is this really such a difficult thing to understand?
In similar news, Presidents Bush and Clinton both saved millions of people from poverty by simply lowering the poverty line. Everyone still made the same amount of money, but now millions more of them weren't classified as living in poverty!
He wouldn't refer me for an EEG because he didn't believe a word I was saying. I had to try for years just to get referred to a specialist, and then wait 8 months because neurologists are just REALLY busy.
I wasn't aware you were at war with the general citizens of either of those countries to the degree that no other military devices at your disposal were capable of dealing with them, should the need arise.
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So you're saying if you got a little bit of money every month, you wouldn't work? It's lazy people like you that's ruining the country.
... uhm... ok. Do you know what GDP means?
It comes from, surprise surprise, the cyclical economic pool.
The United States GDP per capita is 53,041.98 USD (2013). This is nearly $4000 per month. Assuming that approximately 33 percent of the American population would qualify for minimum basic income, it would constitute less than the country's annual military spending to utterly eliminate homelessness, poverty, starvation, lack of education and illiteracy, as well as drastically improving a nation's psychological health.
Constantly screaming "WHERE DOES IT COME FROM?!?!" is significantly less helpful and constructive than actually reading the f***ing articles and finding out where it comes from.
Well, thank goodness you gave it a cursory glance. I'm sure that's a far more detailed and nuanced approach than the hundreds of economists who have spent literally decades working out the minutiae of minimum basic income.
I can't believe they wasted their lives like that, when you could have saved them all that work.
Because that's not how the world works?
All experiments with this have so far been unqualified successes.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2...
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
And before everyone goes "ERHMAHGHERD THE TAXPAYERS NEED TO SUPPORT A NATION OF HOMELESS JOBLESS BUMS!!!!", maybe consider the fact that you already are, except no-one's quality of life is actually improved.
So, the way I'm reading this article... the teacher perpetrated a bomb scare by telling a school full of a children that a clock was, in fact, a bomb.
I'm sure the teacher will be charged appropriately.
I wish I had +Mod points...
More specifically a suspension of her monetization through her videos, directly affecting what is her entire income.
But their censorship is already wildly variable and pointless. Skinny naked Asian girls with tiny squares of electrical tape over their nipples: absolutely fine, 500,000 views. A buxom woman wearing a full multi-layered outfit: 3000 views, reported for inappropriate content, owner fined.
My laser vasectomy took 15 minutes, didn't hurt, had no side effects, and was covered under basic medical.
Also, frickin' laser beams.
He was in Poland! Punch was served!
Do I get points for sticking the kittens IN trees, since I am helping other people to gain karma?
Want to mod +1 Funny...
Go on... go to www.trollswithwoodenspoons.com and tell them that.
I want to make almost all drugs legal, or at the very least not a jailable offense. I was just making a point about how, just because the government SAYS something is good/bad/true/false, that doesn't necessarily make it so. I'm trying to get people thinking.
Then I realized this is Slashdot, and I'm wasting my breath.
A person makes X dollars. He is determined to be "poor" or "not poor" based on Government definitions. Being "poor" or "not poor" affects what you can do, such as getting government stipends to help you out.
A person commits X act. He is determined to be "criminal" or "not criminal" based on Government definitions. Being "criminal" or "not criminal" affects what you can do, such as getting a decent-paying job.
Is this really such a difficult thing to understand?
Socialist!!!!
In similar news, Presidents Bush and Clinton both saved millions of people from poverty by simply lowering the poverty line. Everyone still made the same amount of money, but now millions more of them weren't classified as living in poverty!
He wouldn't refer me for an EEG because he didn't believe a word I was saying. I had to try for years just to get referred to a specialist, and then wait 8 months because neurologists are just REALLY busy.
Trust me, I've been there. Here's a common scenario from my teenaged years:
Me: I'm having seizures.
Doc: No, you're not.
After six years, four doctors, and one car crash, I finally get hooked up to an EEG machine.
Doc: Oh, hey, check this out. You have epilepsy.
Me: I know. I told YOU that.
I wasn't aware you were at war with the general citizens of either of those countries to the degree that no other military devices at your disposal were capable of dealing with them, should the need arise.
Because there's no-one left to nuke?
They should name it the Coulter, since the Node 3 recycles and feeds off of it's own waste products.
What confuses me is... your doctors give you contracts? To HEAL you?
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I think I've found a flaw in your medical system. In Canada, doctors give us medicine.