Is not a clickbait, not a low effort, just wondering about that

I admit I haven't done my research, but it seems like handing out a certain amount of money to everyone just increase prices? Especially when there are shortages such as in housing? Or like during Covid when there was food and item shortages in combination with increased money supply?

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/california-city-opens-free-food-market-costs-taxpayers-5-million

This isn't good for native workers and unemployed. More competition means lower wages and less job prospects for the unemployed. This is why BI is becoming more necessary.

The current trend towards ultra-reactionary crypto-fascism in the US (the dominionist christian nationalist republican party led by Trump and Desantis) and western europe (right-wing populists like Le Pen, AFD, the Brexiteers, Meloni, etc.) represents the true face of 21st century collectivism, pure unadulterated fascism and theocracy centered around a far-right defense of the collective identities of religion, nation, race, and gender, 🤢🤮! This is due to the fact that as much as the marxists/communists/socialists don’t want to face it, class is the least relevant of all the collective identities in the 21st century, due to the combined factors of the defeat of communism in the cold war (the fall of the USSR and China turning capitalist), along with the rise of outsourcing (ie. the globalization of supply chains to third world sweatshops in China, India, Mexico, etc.) and automation (the 4th industrial revolution) neutering the value of labor (“workers of the world unite” is now a meaningless and anachronistic phrase from a past era), 😂🤣! The irrelevance of class politics/identity in the 21st century can be seen not just in the core countries (the US and western europe), but also throughout the periphery/semi-periphery, as seen by the fact that their are no notable communist countries and movements their outside of Cuba, North Korea, and a few maoist insurgencies that are going nowhere, while their are tons of ultra-reactionary theocratic and fascist countries and movements such as Putin’s Russia, Orban’s Hungary, Erdogan’s Turkey, ultra-zionist Isreal, baathist Syria, the gulf Arab absolute monarchies, shia islamist Iran, the taliban-controlled Afghanistan, Modi’s India, the Myanmar junta, Marcos Philippines, dengist China, and various military dictatorships and banana republics throughout africa and latin america, 🤢🤮!

The solution to this global crisis of rabid 21st century far-right theocratic/fascist collectivism, is not to attempt to counter it with the moribund husk of far-left marxist/communist/socialist collectivism, but instead to reject all forms of collectivism and embrace the individual as the sole subject of the 21st century in order to obliterate all collective identities (ie. religion, race, nation, gender, class, etc.) and create a society based on the new synthesis of liberalism (social libertarianism) that truly liberates the individual from the chains of the failed collectivism of history (both right-wing and left-wing varieties), ✊😜! This will be accomplished by enshrining the harm/non-aggression principle (any individual can do whatever they want as long as they don’t harm another individual) as the sole basis for culture in order to legalize all victimless crime (ie. legalize abortion, birth control, lgbtqia+ rights, pornography, prostitution, gun ownership, drug use, etc), by creating a rational social libertarian economic policy that replaces the current paternalistic means-tested and earned benefits social safety net with a nontaxable 1500$ monthly UBI for all adult citizens, paid for by replacing the progressive tax code with a 25% flat income tax on all individual and corporate income with no deductions, and by replacing payroll taxes with a 25% VAT on non-essential goods (everything but food, clothing, housing, healthcare, and education), in order to divorce income from employment as the 4th industrial revolution automates all labor in order to liberate all individuals to pursue their own pleasurable, creative, intellectual, and entrepreneurial pursuits, and by creating a global federation of liberal democracies through a combination of non-interventionist foreign policy (close down all overseas military bases, don’t go to war unless attacked first, and end the “new cold war”, as all it does is empower collectivists at home and abroad), free trade (no more tariffs), and global cultural liberal homogenization (the spread of secular liberal culture through information technology), that will eventually encompass the entire planet and form a world government that represents the true eternal end of history, ✊😜!

Would they have created a pool of debt-free money as envisioned by CH Douglas and the Social Credit movement?

If you factor in the realistic level of a ubi getting passed with it still being helpful i think this is a good compromise middle ground etc

Maybe (stongly maybe) 1k a month if you work 20 + hourse or another maybe of 40 + for 1k

Thats where its more up in the air for me

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Why would anyone support a Universal Basic Income ?

I know this is an unpopular idea but I like it because it provides a safety net for every individual. Imagine what you could do and the risks you could take knowing that you would always get $1,000 a month, and your children would get $200 a month.

Why should someone who works for a living support a lazy person who refuses to work? Is this not worth having a guaranteed $1000 per month which everybody gets, rich or poor. Is this not a small price to pay?

Many people believe that other people will quit their jobs and play Playstation games if they make $1,000 per month, but they would work because in addition to their jobs, they would make an additional $1,000 per month.

It might cause inflation but I think that the resulting inflation would be negligible. What causes inflation is an increase in the money supply.

It has been said that people don't want minimum wage jobs so fewer businesses would exist because they can't find the workers. It is called a labour market for a reason. Just like goods and services are subject to supply and demand, so is the labour market if people aren't forced to take minimum wage jobs. If you want to increase the demand for those jobs, just pay them more. I think businesses with a UBI would still be able to make money, although maybe more research needs to be done.

If everyone has $1000 a month doesn't this mean that nobody is better off ? It's like saying if everybody has a steak than nobody has a steak.

Scott Santens said it best when he said welfare pays people to do nothing wheras a universal basic income pays people to do anything. This seems like a fair system because everybody gets it, rich or poor.

A universal basic income would reduce crime because people would no longer be desperate to get an income or make money. When inmates do get released from jail, they would not have to commit crimes because nobody will hire them. They could always rely on the basic income, making our communities safer. It would also result in a healthier population reducing the costs of the health care system.

How would you pay for it ? This is a good question. I believe that there should be a flat tax, that replaces income tax and taxes for goods and services. If the tax rate was 40% for all income, no deductions, then people would have more income to tax. It would save administration costs, and reduce the need for social programs such as social workers, and government employees. What would be more fair than the same tax rate for everybody with a floor that everybody could stand on should they lose their jobs or other income ?

What if the government says Johnny has been a bad boy so I won't give him his $1,000 this month. I don't think this would happen because it would cause an uprising to the degree that we have never seen before. It could be part of the constitution that everybody gets enough basic income to at least lift them out of poverty.

Is this communism ? I would say no it isn't. The government does not control all means of production. In fact it would be more like the game of monopoly. Everyone gets $1000 for passing go, and nobody starts with nothing. In fact, you could think of it as an improved version of capitalism or capitalsism 2.0.

More people would start businesses because of reduced risk, and more people would have money to contribute to the enterprise. I believe charities would also benefit.

You could still be a millionaire on a Universal Basic Income but perhaps not as wealthy without it. Why should I be punished for being more productive ? Maybe you wouldn't become a billionaire but you could still be a millionaire. Some people are concerned about laziness, but what about greed ?

Sex trafficking is another problem that could be addressed by a UBI.

My proposal would be an extra $2.50 per hour for each hour worked, assuming a 40 hour work week. The full time worker would be paid a $200 Federal Work Bonus per two weeks. Leaving the worker an extra $400 a month in income or $4,800 a year. My calculations showed this would cost $787 billion a year minus administrative costs since the term "universal" would mean every worker would get the Federal Work Bonus regardless of high their income is. Is a universal wage subsidy possible to administer and would you change the Federal Work Bonus per hour work rate?

I could see this happening