I entered the world in January 2008, so it was a pretty big year for me. Hard to believe it’s been 18 years already.

  • Vanth@reddthat.com
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    1 month ago

    There’s a way. UBI. But there’s no appetite for it because politicians and corporations don’t make mad profits off it. Line must go up faster and faster each quarter; letting the poors die in debt does this better than providing them a basic income.

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      1 month ago

      That is a good point, if partial economy is automated that leaves partial money available to handout as ubi.

      I had dismissed ubi because that is something that would only happen if there is enough pain on the consumers for them to give handouts, I guess this did happen when covid started up but that wasn’t seen as a similar function as ubi…which actually I read about some tests of ubi awhile back and they seemed to do what we think they do but the tests seem to make that not so obvious.

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        30 days ago

        We can actually concentrate the consumer pain on 1% of the richest population and hurt no disadvantaged children.

        Dealing with mercenaries and police protecting them is usually the next hangup, unless you can get someone to pull it through on a charisma check. Without getting assasinated.

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      30 days ago

      I’m hungery as fuck to make this happen.

      Definitely not a televisable opinion. Not on capital air time.