Message from @Suzaku Kururugi

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2019-03-14 11:54:06 UTC  

I just hope we have UBI by 2040 or so

2019-03-14 11:54:30 UTC  

Well I wouldn't bet on that man don't listen to politicians that promise you free stuff

2019-03-14 11:55:13 UTC  

Well one state already has UBI

2019-03-14 11:55:20 UTC  

although it's only like 1000 a year

2019-03-14 11:55:40 UTC  

And that's the problem we could probably only afford to do a thousand a year

2019-03-14 11:55:43 UTC  

do you mean Alaska?

2019-03-14 11:55:46 UTC  

Yes

2019-03-14 11:55:54 UTC  

because thats not exactly basic income

2019-03-14 11:56:02 UTC  

I think its called a Residency credit

2019-03-14 11:56:17 UTC  

and its literally Alaska paying to keep people living there

2019-03-14 11:57:13 UTC  

I don't understand how people live off of $1,000 a month

2019-03-14 11:57:27 UTC  

Well, it depends on what part of the country you live in

2019-03-14 11:57:34 UTC  

in NYC obviously it would be impossible

2019-03-14 11:57:36 UTC  

or LA

2019-03-14 11:57:41 UTC  

My car payment and insurance is almost $1,000 a month

2019-03-14 11:58:06 UTC  

In fact, i'd go as far as to say it's not possible anywhere on the pacific coast or north east

2019-03-14 11:58:16 UTC  

but if you move to somewhere in the heartland

2019-03-14 11:58:21 UTC  

a small town

2019-03-14 11:58:25 UTC  

it's doable

2019-03-14 11:58:39 UTC  

yeah thats fair... its impossible on the West Coast

2019-03-14 11:58:47 UTC  

I have a friend in Texas that pays 400 a month for rent

2019-03-14 11:58:51 UTC  

Montana, Wyoming, doable

2019-03-14 11:58:52 UTC  

utilities included

2019-03-14 12:01:16 UTC  

Without overtime I make about 1300 a week and I feel like I need to make more

2019-03-14 12:01:48 UTC  

I can't imagine stretching one of those paychecks for an entire month

2019-03-14 12:02:49 UTC  

rural America would be the area hit hardest by automation, and is being hit hard right now by the trade deficit and trade wars

2019-03-14 12:02:55 UTC  

thats where Basic Income would do the most good

2019-03-14 12:03:05 UTC  

metropolitan areas have other problems

2019-03-14 18:25:15 UTC  

Humans are making themselves obsolete, and we don't even know what to do about it.

2019-03-15 11:23:11 UTC  

Okay, so let's set a new topic. Today's topic will be: what can we do to combat teachers and tutors who do stuff like this:

2019-03-15 19:01:38 UTC  

I thinhk students need to talk to other students and see how many of their classmates agree. if the teacher doesnt let them present something else, they can make it a unified sort of "protest" which can make a statement

2019-03-15 19:02:02 UTC  

but as a student its tricky, you're in a position of automatic inferiority and subordinance

2019-03-15 20:02:48 UTC  

There was a lot of discussion about this yesterday on the sub. What are people's thoughts?

2019-03-15 20:11:49 UTC  

I believe that perhaps there can be more constructive discussion here than what happened yesterday

2019-03-15 20:26:27 UTC  

I think you can be a mra regardless of political affiliation

2019-03-15 20:27:48 UTC  

Me too. What I'm personally interested in is why people develop the notion that you can't be. What inexorably, in their view, ties men's rights to the right wing?

2019-03-15 20:51:24 UTC  

If I were to take a guess, I would Thursday it has to do with the left being seen as the champion of feminism

2019-03-15 20:56:58 UTC  

I'm not so sure. It's just not enough for people to seem so committed to that idea. There has to be certain components of what ideas of left wing/liberal ideology they can point to as incompatible

2019-03-15 20:59:31 UTC  

I think it's left wing being for things like race and sex based quotas at school and work