A basic income for all
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Excerpted from The Next Big Thing From The Official Who Predicted Communism's Demise - Forbes
When you stand back from all the yelling and the screaming…you can see what I believe is the most important trend in the word…the world is emerging from poverty fast. This is the biggest under-reported news story in the world.
By 1980 or 1990 about two billion human beings were out of poverty, since then another half billion have crossed the line out of poverty; a lot of them in India and china. In the last six years 20 million Brazilians have emerged. When you put all these numbers together…each year between fifty and one hundred million human beings are leaving poverty behind.
If we can continue this trend within our lifetimes, and certainly within our children’s lifetimes, the overwhelming majority of human beings will no longer be poor. This is the biggest thing that’s happened in the entire world.
By the way it’s going to be a five billion-person middle class. This will become the most powerful force in the world. Their demand for our goods and services will set off an economic boom…I believe that we’re heading for not just a sonic boom, but maybe a supersonic boom.
When you stand back from all the yelling and the screaming…you can see what I believe is the most important trend in the word…the world is emerging from poverty fast. This is the biggest under-reported news story in the world.
By 1980 or 1990 about two billion human beings were out of poverty, since then another half billion have crossed the line out of poverty; a lot of them in India and china. In the last six years 20 million Brazilians have emerged. When you put all these numbers together…each year between fifty and one hundred million human beings are leaving poverty behind.
If we can continue this trend within our lifetimes, and certainly within our children’s lifetimes, the overwhelming majority of human beings will no longer be poor. This is the biggest thing that’s happened in the entire world.
By the way it’s going to be a five billion-person middle class. This will become the most powerful force in the world. Their demand for our goods and services will set off an economic boom…I believe that we’re heading for not just a sonic boom, but maybe a supersonic boom.
if a laborer has enough for a sodee pop and a pot pie eva day that's more than adequate.
incidentally pot pies on sale at the Walmart 68 cents a piece
incidentally pot pies on sale at the Walmart 68 cents a piece
people against basic income are arguing against basic human rights. arguing that humans don't have rights to food, shelter, employment and security.
No- Fukk everyone else who would rather sit and whine rather than get off their A$$ and do whatever it takes to improve themselves or the demand for them.
Your thinking is all f**ked up, everyone should have the right to get off his a$$ and hustle to get these things, no one should have the right to just have them handed to them! (Profoundly handicapped excepted)
the universal declaration of human rights disagrees.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Declaration_of_Human_Rights
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights
article 25: (1) Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself and of his family, including food, clothing, housing and medical care and necessary social services, and the right to security in the event of unemployment, sickness, disability, widowhood, old age or other lack of livelihood in circumstances beyond his control.
people will work if they want to work and they shouldn't be forced in to drudgery. most people will do productive things if they have any passion about life regardless of a basic income. there's not something only wrong about your ideal to force people into drudgery but wholly disturbing.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Declaration_of_Human_Rights
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights
article 25: (1) Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself and of his family, including food, clothing, housing and medical care and necessary social services, and the right to security in the event of unemployment, sickness, disability, widowhood, old age or other lack of livelihood in circumstances beyond his control.
people will work if they want to work and they shouldn't be forced in to drudgery. most people will do productive things if they have any passion about life regardless of a basic income. there's not something only wrong about your ideal to force people into drudgery but wholly disturbing.
It's far easier to blame everyone else then it is to man-up, take control and responsibility
At least he can feel secure in the knowledge that when things get bad enough, he'll be able to suckle at the teat of the many tax funded programs he has never contributed to.
He'll really be sticking it to Da Man then
He'll really be sticking it to Da Man then