/polpol/ - Politically Incorrect Discussion

>about Basic Income?

the question is, how are you going to pay for it?

>>16697

The same way they always do. By bringing the rest of us down.

“Americans are so enamored of equality, they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom.”

― Alexis de Tocqueville

>>16698

In the future, and very much so today also, it is the machines who are the slaves. Why is it preferable that only the very top of the very top gets to exploit that, when it results in over hundred millions Americans having nothing to do, nothing to buy and nothing to eat?

>>16697

300 million people gets $10,000 a year, that's $3 trillion.

The federal, state, and local governments spend more than 6 trillion every year.

Just have to adjust how the money is spent, there is enough money.

>>16697

>>16697

It pays for itself

79% of professional economists agree that welfare should be replaced by a negative income tax (very, very similar to BMI). I think its wise to defer to the experts in this (like pretty much everything else).

Source: http://www.weber.edu/wsuimages/AcademicAffairs/ProvostItems/global.pdf

>>16699

That's where things become a grey area. When people are forced out of work, demand drops sharply. Those in power become like the kings of old, taking up people's land in exchange for security and supplies. That's the way I see it going anyway.

A more pressing issue will be food by the time automation becomes this prevalent. We Cannot support much more life on this planet with our current resources. Our agricultural reserves are running dangerously low, especially phosphate reserves. Phytoplankton populations have dropped 40% over the last 50 years (these are the guys that make upwards of 70% of our Oxygen on earth). We either deal with the issue now, or be forced to let the future generations die like dogs in the streets.

I feel like it's going to be inevitable in the future when more and more people are losing jobs and everything becomes automated. How do you expect all the goyim to survive?