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What I Want for All Moms on Mother’s Day: A Universal Basic Income
Medium.com ^ | 5/11/2016 | Anna Oman

Posted on 05/11/2016 12:32:23 PM PDT by GilGil

Imagine if everyone was guaranteed healthcare and an income floor. People would still pursue their calling in life. In fact, they could do so more freely with more creativity and daring without the fear of not making ends meet. It would unleash the enormous creative potential that lays dormant within the hearts and minds of so many office workers, toiling away as their best ideas and dreams wither away.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: communism; income; marxism; miltonfriedman; minimumwage; negativeincometax; obamarecession; obamataxhikes; socialism; ubi; universalbasicincome
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To: GilGil
Ten bucks says that "Anna" hasn't worked a day in her life.And that she's had 5 kids from 5 different "fathers",none of whose names she can remember.And that she's been "working toward her GED" for 15 years.

And that she has EBT cards under 3 different names

21 posted on 05/11/2016 12:48:50 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Obamanomics:Trickle Up Poverty)
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To: GilGil

If everybody is guaranteed an income floor, that amount will soon be worthless as all prices and wages rise. Then the floor will be back to zero for all practical purposes.

Don’t these people stay away during their High School Economics class?


22 posted on 05/11/2016 12:49:50 PM PDT by Yo-Yo (Is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
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To: GilGil

My needs should be satisfied by the sacrifice of others. /marx /bernie /parasite


23 posted on 05/11/2016 12:49:52 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
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To: GilGil
People would still pursue their calling in life.

Stealing, robbing, and drug dealing to supplement Gubbmint teat, just like now.

24 posted on 05/11/2016 12:50:24 PM PDT by Feckless (The US Gubbmint / This Tagline CENSORED by FR \ IrOnic, ain't it?)
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To: AnotherUnixGeek

The entire world economy is a fantasy, sustained by printing presses at the Fed.

I’m not saying it’s sustainable. Only that we’re going to give it a try.

As Winston Churchill said, “only when they’ve exhausted all of the alternatives”


25 posted on 05/11/2016 12:51:42 PM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: GilGil
What I want for all Moms on Mother's Day is a basic understanding of economics and the cold, hard realization that all the things they wish to redistribute are produced by capitalism and that once they destroy capitalism they very shortly thereafter will have nothing to redistribute other than poverty and despair.

Just ask that idiot redistributionist running Venezuela where he's getting his toilet paper these days.

26 posted on 05/11/2016 12:52:15 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Feminists are nothing more than politically-correct sexists.)
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To: GilGil
Most peoples dream is to sit around the house all day and get drunk and/or high. Two groups of people get to live out this dream, but in very different ways. The non-workng poor and the idle rich both get to stay home all day. Everyone else needs to work.

At some point, the "like in Europe" argument is going to wear itself out, and folks will wince at the mention of it. I already do because I know that if shit like this worked, the ghettos would be full of art instead of used rubbers, discarded needles, abandoned buildings, and garbage. Indian reservations would be cultural mecccas of art and creativity instead of run down shacks and discarded whiskey bottles.

Just saying...

27 posted on 05/11/2016 12:52:20 PM PDT by BRK
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To: GilGil

With increasing automation, humans are being slowly removed from the supply chain for everything society needs. Manufacturing and farming is basically dead so we now have people migrating into cities and living in squalor to fight for the last remaining human jobs. Eventually machines will take those jobs too

The reality is that “working for a living” will soon become a thing of the past for most people. Far from everyone can develop their own business or do high-tech design. We’ll either give most people free stuff or a whole bunch of people who are no longer needed will be killed off...


28 posted on 05/11/2016 12:52:26 PM PDT by varyouga
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To: GilGil

The author of this piece will probably regret writing this when she is in her 60’s—what an embarrasing and naive article.

We need only look at the 94 million non-working Americans to see if there is a fountain of “creativity” unleashed by idleness. Where is the creativity?

The writer William Carlos Williams comes to mind. He was presented as an example of creative writing at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop in a brief conversation I had there in about 1982. He was a physician working long hours and wrote after his work tasks. He had no “universal basic income”. Winston Churchill is said to have published about 1 million words during the 1930s. He paid his family’s expenses with those words and had no “universal basic income”. Creativity was not a function of basic income, it was a function of disciplined, devoted work—in fact, it wasn’t very creative at all, it was the product of hard work.


29 posted on 05/11/2016 12:52:35 PM PDT by iacovatx (Conservatism is the political center--it is not "right" of center)
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To: GilGil

I’d settle for the Good Tooth Fairy (except that under Obama’s regime, the GTF has come out of the closet)


30 posted on 05/11/2016 12:52:42 PM PDT by faithhopecharity
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To: GilGil

The Swiss are gonna beat us to it. Voting on June 5 to guarantee a $2600 per adult per month stipend. And $600/mo to every child.


31 posted on 05/11/2016 12:53:26 PM PDT by Afterguard (Liberals will let you do anything you want, as long as it's mandatory.)
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To: Yo-Yo
Don’t these people stay awake during their High School Economics class?

Slightly off topic....I am amazed at the things I learned just by staying awake in high school. It was 30 years ago, and I generally pulled a "C". But damned if the information didn't stick in my head someplace!


32 posted on 05/11/2016 12:53:42 PM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: GilGil

George McGoverns folly.


33 posted on 05/11/2016 12:55:26 PM PDT by Brilliant
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To: GilGil

Anna,there are two *entire* countries and part of a third seen on this satellite photo.Guess which one is the capitalist country and which two are the Communist countries.And for bonus points give us the official name,and the name commonly used,of the capitalist country.

34 posted on 05/11/2016 12:55:41 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Obamanomics:Trickle Up Poverty)
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To: GilGil
In fact, they could do so more freely with more creativity and daring

THIS is exactly why there are blogs.

Daring and creative.. blogs.

Yay us.

35 posted on 05/11/2016 12:58:29 PM PDT by humblegunner (NOW with even more AWESOMENESS)
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To: GilGil

Universal Basic Income may be a necessity one day.

With the automation of the industry and service sectors (ironically sped up by demands for increases in minimum wage), who’s going to be left with a job to earn money to buy anything?


36 posted on 05/11/2016 12:58:37 PM PDT by CriticalJ (Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress.. But then I repeat myself. MT)
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To: GeorgiaDawg32
They'd get the check on the first and be broke by the 4th, then complain they need a raise.

You nailed it. If this lunacy were ever to happen, and I hope and pray it does not, a new political carrot would exist. Every democrat would campaign on "increasing the universal basic income" and would win easily. Of course, eventually the smoking ruin of our economy or the reckoning of our national debt would soon make the whole thing moot.
37 posted on 05/11/2016 12:58:51 PM PDT by LostInBayport (When there are more people riding in the cart than there are pulling it, the cart stops moving...)
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To: Buckeye McFrog

I remember my elementary school teachers explaining how robots would be doing all the ‘hard work’ and we wouldnt ‘have to’ work and would have all this leisure time and it would be warm and fuzzy and quite utopic.


38 posted on 05/11/2016 12:58:56 PM PDT by Delta 21 (Patiently waiting for the jack booted kick at my door.)
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To: GilGil

Can anyone here explain why greats like Hayek and Friedman bought into this idea? Is it as simple as wiping away the bureaucracy of transfer payments?


39 posted on 05/11/2016 1:01:13 PM PDT by major-pelham
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To: GilGil
"It would unleash the enormous creative potential that lays dormant within the hearts and minds of so many office workers, toiling away as their best ideas and dreams wither away."

Since the impetus and basic motivation to improve one's life, and that of others for that matter, would be completely removed, and thus replaced with aimless and restless boredom, it would much more probably result in personal corruption, crime, moral degradation, and even suicide. Nothing of importance or use would be created, and plenty of time and money would be wasted.

The Netherlands had a kind of "Artist's Subsidy" provided by the government, so as to release all that pent up creativity. It resulted in mediocre "Art as an excuse" for sloth and lack of striving for any kind of real achievement. This kind of thinking is worthy only of juveniles who have no conception of real life.

40 posted on 05/11/2016 1:01:47 PM PDT by Richard Axtell (The March to the Abyss is speeding up.)
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