Better opportunity. Help their family in their native country

There are all sorts of reasons people come to America

Ok, sure

$1000/month would already

make a lot of people happy

At would a UBI hurt that

?

The whole point of Yang's UBI is to stimulate OUR economy

but instead you're going to have it hemorrhaging toward other's economy

Countries that were reliant on the US Dollar now becomes heavily reliant on the US dollars now

Why

Explain the mechanism behind why that would happen please

Are you suggesting vast number of people take their UBI money and send it to friend or family in foreign countries?

Or just foreign consumer spending?

UBI is too radical for the US govt

like that shit will quickly get shutdown at congress

like cosby said, UBI is the future but americans aren't ready for it yet

Political winds shift pretty quickly.

Get used to it

Pioneers like trump are guiding us in the right direction.

Oh dear...

I mean the easiest way to fix that is make the qualifications for UBI be natural born or naturalized for more than X years

Did you just say "Universal Basic Income?

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I believe you should work up the ladder to achieve success and earn more money. Universal income kinda eliminates that purpose doesnt it?

I don't need the government to become my daddy. We should be able to be independently sufficient in order to make due pay possible.

UBI covers your most basic needs, not success

People cant usually achieve success when they're starving or homeless

They're still very well able to

And the conditions weren't present back then for anything of the sort to happen

We still have to have a good safety net for them

Job automation is another consideration for UBI

@Dr.Cosby Also, 10% VAT isn't that much. Remember, Europe pays 20% VAT

10% is nothing

Also, welfare has the problem that is causes people on welfare to fear finding a job (since they're scared that they'll be worse off by finding a job as that welfare will be taken)

Right but UBI woudn't cut off because you got a job

That would just create a resentment among the working class and ultimately fail

Why a resentment among the working class?

Because if you're working and not even better off than somebody who isn't working, that would build resentment

GG @Soup Can Sam, you just advanced to level 5!

but if you're working hard, *you will be better off than them*