[this is probably off-topic for this forum, but I found it on HN so…]
Edit “enjoy” the discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38233810
‘people should die if they cannot work’
(I know he said ‘local charities’/local gov but iirc in the USA they don’t even get enough money to keep the infrastructure working, and the USA has an above average racism problem so the default will be starvation for a lot of people).
if employment rates get too high it’s considered an economic crisis and the government steps in lol
- make an economic system which is presumed to collapse at full employment
- make it so you have to work to live
- ???
Nobody tell him that Social Security can easily pay out $1600/mo to people today. His head might pop right off!
Last time I ran the numbers, I concluded that the USA can afford to pay $2000/mo to each taxpayer, even if considering marriages as two taxpayers. The economic benefits would easily compensate the small amount of self-borrowing required to jumpstart UBI. Similarly, the USA can easily afford to auto-enroll everybody in Medicare, although the government would have to eat several HMOs and ACOs to ensure coverage and prevent profiteering.
