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Re: Government Day-to-Day
« Reply #780 on: November 20, 2020, 11:34:09 am »
Why wouldn't that stuff get done? A UBI doesn't replace the need for people to work; it would simply ensure people would have a few extra bucks in their pockets to supplement existing incomes. For the people working those shitty but essential jobs, that could be the difference between permanent grinding poverty and an actual better life for themselves and their children.

A UBI needs to come from somewhere and the very wealthy are the only ones with the ability to pay for it.  In the US, it shouldn't be a problem finding the money. Three of the top billionaires make as much as the bottom 50% of their people.

Automation has eliminated probably about half the jobs that existed in the 50's and consequently, half the people are unemployed.

Unemployed in the sense that they are working at part time jobs, two or more part time jobs, or not working and earning money at all.

Unemployment figures have been a joke for many years. And of course there are enough people to do any work that needs doing. But finding somebody to do them in the land of the gun isn't as easy.
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