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President Obama: We'll be debating unconditional free money 'over the next 10 or 20 years'
Business Insider ^ | October 12, 2016 | Chris Weller

Posted on 10/13/2016 11:28:41 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

Speaking with Wired editor-in-chief Scott Dadich and MIT Media Lab director Joi Ito in a recent interview, President Barack Obama reaffirmed his belief that universal basic income would be harder to ignore in the coming decades.

UBI is a system of wealth distribution in which the government provides everyone with some money, regardless of income.

The money comes with no strings attached. People can use it however they choose, whether to repair a leaky roof or to go on vacation. Advocates say the system is a smart and straightforward way to lift people out of poverty.

A growing body of evidence suggests such a system might be necessary if artificial intelligence wipes out a huge chunk of jobs performed by humans. That is the future Obama wants to avoid, but he said the possibility warrants a debate on basic income....

(Excerpt) Read more at businessinsider.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; Politics; Society
KEYWORDS: automation; guaranteedincome; obama; welfare
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Reparations by another name.
1 posted on 10/13/2016 11:28:41 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Soetoro all most pulled it off.


2 posted on 10/13/2016 11:30:20 PM PDT by 80skid
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Ever hear of inflation?


3 posted on 10/13/2016 11:31:15 PM PDT by dfwgator
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If I build a factory that is automated to save money and am then taxed at a rate that would allow for redistribution of wealth to workers I didn’t hire then why automate?


4 posted on 10/13/2016 11:32:53 PM PDT by Fai Mao (PIAPS for Prison 2016)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Even the Swiss rejected such a plan of Universal Basic Income. I believe this was last year.
Expect to hear more about it, if we get a Dem President. as they run out of freebies in one area, and create them in another.


5 posted on 10/13/2016 11:36:42 PM PDT by lee martell
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"UBI is a system of wealth distribution in which the government provides everyone with some money, regardless of income. "

Unless you have unlimited amounts of income, what happens when you try to do this while allowing unlimited immigration; and what happens to your precious environmentalism, bozo?
6 posted on 10/13/2016 11:37:52 PM PDT by clearcarbon
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To: Fai Mao

Stocking up on cake......and making sure I always have a vehicle big enough to live in.


7 posted on 10/13/2016 11:39:04 PM PDT by dasboot (  Deplorable Crude Populist)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Utopia will be so awesome.
We will all get paid in back-rubs.

Pass the bong Obama! People believe this demon.

8 posted on 10/13/2016 11:42:01 PM PDT by right way right (May we remain sober over mere men, for God really is our one and only true hope.)
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Hard to believe somebody this stupid could be president
9 posted on 10/13/2016 11:42:21 PM PDT by seastay
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Hardly a new idea.

Negative Income Tax .

10 posted on 10/13/2016 11:43:29 PM PDT by Pontiac (The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Upside: free money!!!

Downside: I become a useless eater.


11 posted on 10/13/2016 11:46:00 PM PDT by dasboot (  Deplorable Crude Populist)
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“There’s a Communist living in the White House”


12 posted on 10/13/2016 11:51:13 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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Yeah. Free money. What could go wrong?


13 posted on 10/13/2016 11:53:35 PM PDT by dr_lew (I)
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Critics say giving people free money that isn't conditionally attached to work violates the ideal of earning your living.

Some UBI advocates, on the other hand, say the system provides an even stronger American luxury: freedom.

They say it unshackles people from having to make compromises in how they live just so they can survive.

What kind of Freedom is it where your life is dependent on the government?

Are you really unshackled when the government provides your life sustenance?

If you are not providing for your own living through your own efforts and talents if every bite of food that passes your lips is provided to you from the confiscated labor of another man are you a slave or a slaver?

14 posted on 10/13/2016 11:55:49 PM PDT by Pontiac (The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit.)
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This idea was written about by Isaac Asimov in one of his Robot short stories.

AI and robots may very well transition the world from the economy of scarcity to an economy of surplus. Technology makes fewer workers necessary every year.


15 posted on 10/13/2016 11:56:29 PM PDT by Valpal1 (If the police can t solve a problem with violence, they ll find a way to fix it with brute force)
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The workers have become the slaves. I work long hours,pay my own health insurance, pay for what I need and use, and pay taxes so others can go on welfare,take out college loans they won’t need to repay, get subsidized healthcare, Obama phones, etc.


16 posted on 10/13/2016 11:57:59 PM PDT by Kipp
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

This is just Obama showing off his latest boner.


17 posted on 10/14/2016 12:05:28 AM PDT by weston (SO HERE'S THE STORY: As far as I'm concerned, it's Christ or nothing!)
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Why work?

In fact, why pay for anything?


18 posted on 10/14/2016 12:09:38 AM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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If it replaces the current welfare system it would be a good thing. Also it has to be a set amount that does not increase if you are not working. I’d like to think such a policy would mean that the push to increase minimum wage to the point that people are simply priced out of the job market would stop. But I doubt the Dems and their Union base really care if the job market is closed to a great many people.


19 posted on 10/14/2016 12:22:26 AM PDT by lastchance (Credo.)
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One of the big reasons it was rejected was because of concerns that it would attract more refugees and asylum seekers. That is a real concern here as well.


20 posted on 10/14/2016 12:27:00 AM PDT by lastchance (Credo.)
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