maybe the government should pay for it, they approved the codes and building standards that were not sufficient enough to provide 100% fire protection/avoidance
Think about the impacts to markets under ubi, cheap consumer goods like tvs etc would come under huge demand in the first months, creating scarcity, which as mentioned above cause inflation, etc. And yet people will be hungry for food by the 15th of the month because of people dependency on school lunch programs and food stamps
The systems true value is in the removal of administrative overhead, which would require dismantling all old systems, could you imagine the backlash from people on ssi/ssd if you reduced their checks to 1k a month from a system they paid into all their lives
The people of the government controlling the means of production is a repeated failed experiment. But wealth redistribution has a role in society, the question is how much
The purpose of wealth redistribution is essentially a bribe to keep the low performers from seing violence as the only means to escape their situations
Ubi would have to include children if it is going to replace education, snap, wic, school lunch programs, medicaid, chip, aca, etc so the cost would be around 4t
The current budget is 4.746t. However in theory you would need to remove all mandatory spending programs which is about 2.7t and many discretionary programs like education 70b, va 87b, hud 43b, and others
So now your looking at a 1t increase spending per year. If it included the removal of state redistribution programs (which it wouldn't) then you could be looking at breaking even overall. But thats a lot of ifs and as thomas sowell points out, the government would only want to put ubi on top of the programs not instead of the programs
Also if they did replace all the current redistribution departments, think of how many people that would leave unemployeed because of loosing government jobs and associated industries
Similar to tax reform, even though we could majorly simply the tax system, we won't because of the industry/labor already invested into our asinine system of bureaucracy
Social security basically says be lawful and productive and you are guaranteed access to utopia (retirement). Its like creating a heaven on earth. Ubi removes this incentive program
controlling the border and setting quotas on immigration is to separate conversations. that's the real problem, congress can't even divide up the issues into logical chunks and resolve one at a time.
the irony of the immigration discussion is we are hearing two distinct points going on. 1) impending automation will lead to mass unemployment and we must redefine social policy in preparation (ubi for example) 2) we need to increase immigration to help give opportunity to people under stress in poor countries, these people will be a boon to society in production
the environmental doom has been forecasted for ever as results of overpopulation and terraforming, etc. The end result is it can either be viewed/announced as a dooms day scenario, i.e. no one will give a shit because it's to big of a problem. Or it can be broken down into small parts that can be fixed. Easy fixes such as removing farming subsidize and farming price floors could easily free up many american regions to be returned to nature. Opening up trade barriers on goods like sugar from cheap tropical world markets so that corn and beet sugar production is slowed and lands are freed for better uses, removing federal subsidize for living in flood zones removes the financial impact of rising waters, etc. All effectively cost nothing (actually saves money) and improve environmental issues. Yet we ignore these things to focus on nonsense like high speed rail
https://www.copenhagenconsensus.com/ has a great approach, i don't agree with everything but the approach is solid. If we could even agree on an approach, then its just a matter of turning a dial on what a human life is worth, or an average 1 iq point increase is worth to quantify and priorities social reforms
btw we can modify plants to absorb 4x as much carbon from the atmosphere than we do today. Imagine the impact of every yard having super carbon absorbing grass
I think they will have a color card like paint samples at home depot. Your shade will determine you payout. I recommend everyone in the tanning both asap to get PAID
They don't bother me, people are free to do whatever they want in their own basement. There is just inherent conflict of attacking socialital norms for creating expectations of gender roles at the same time as championing caricatures of those gender roles
Question is when will they make basic economics a part of a "liberal" education. If the government is going to manipulate the economy in a democratic society, then the populace needs atleast a cursory understanding of economic cause/effect
The ubi video perpetuate s a false narrative (as did yang in the rogan interview). If people do not spend money on a "consumer" goods it doesnt do nothing. Are there people scrooge mcducking their money? No it gets invested. So if it gets put into stocks/bonds it becomes a loan to businesses who spend it on non consumer items. It still stimulates the economy. The narrative needs to stop because its intent feeds the villainisation of people who have accumulated wealth
Notice how all the venezuelan stories report that they spent all the money on social agenda like education. If they got educated why is finding jobs an issue? Wouldnt all the tech companies be running down their for cheap programming or big pharma be snatching up venezuelan scientists. What were these people educated in?
@shadows the issue is the narrative that money not spent on consumer goods is doing nothing to improve society. Just because a person puts money in a bank doesnt mean its not working for society. It still gets fed back into the hands of corporations (via loans instead of profits) and continues the cycle of economic stimulation
He does point out that the 2008 rebate only modestly stimulated the economy because most people saved it or paid off debts instead of using it (using it i assumr means buying consumer goods)
I think poly is up to the individuals to ddo what they want. I can't help but think for some portion (not saying all) that it can lead to not addressing issues in the relationship or with the self.
don't have time for much podcasting, beauty and the beta and mr money mustache are probably the only channels i watch every thing from. Outside of that it depends on how much time i got, who they are interviewing or what the subject is
today i went to a dr appt from about 0830-0930 am, took wifey for walk in part from 0930-1030, watched a movie in the gap somewhere, went on a run 1800-1900. not sure where the rest of the day went, lol
Im not for absorbing their debts. Im also not for continued disaster relief. We should not absorb the cost of disasters federally. The extra building costs etc is a part of the price you pay to live on a tropical island
I would support a federal loan program to rebuild, that has limits, and i would support military aid to get threw the immediate issue, but not years long rebuilding
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