Thanks for forwarding that. In case you're curious how I'd respond to them...
Let's see roughly how much I made, for every year of my life:
45 to 30 years ago: $0 (well, maybe some allowance)
25 years ago: $5,000 in a year
20 years ago: $25,000 a year
15 years ago: $50,000 a year
10 years ago: $100,000 a year
5 years ago: $150,000 a year
last year: $250,000 a year
Okay, now, if you ask me when I'd like to have paid less taxes - or received some UBI... And when I'd be willing to pay taxes, and when I'd be willing to pay it forward, the answer is very clear to me:
UBI + Free Education + Free Healthcare + Progressive Taxes
I think trying to turn someone who ends up making $40,000 a year into someone who ends up making $70,000 a year is worth investing in them, early on in their career.
I'm also willing to give up several things:
Minimum Wage, Union Protections, government mandates on "if you work X hours a week, and the business has Y employees, the business needs to offer you Z benefit"
I believe in education like Sam Seaborn [1]. I believe that automation is really on the verge of granting us essentially infinite Supply of very many goods and services. I believe that UBI + Progressive Taxes are the right way to distribute the benefits of automation as fairly as possible, while still benefiting from the advantages of a capitalistic market.
Ya thats pretty much my stand. And its pretty much the stand of Canada. (though things might be changing)
I make just south of 150k (CAN) but could certainly afford to pay 10k more in taxes. I think automation and various forms of AI (not really hard AI) will make huge swaths of the public as obsolete as horses. Of course investments in education could then possibly make some of these people productive again.
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I think I found the answer on another thread. ----------------------- dandare 8 days ago [-]
Becuase you first have to take the money from those who earned it.
Thanks for forwarding that. In case you're curious how I'd respond to them...
Let's see roughly how much I made, for every year of my life:
45 to 30 years ago: $0 (well, maybe some allowance) 25 years ago: $5,000 in a year 20 years ago: $25,000 a year 15 years ago: $50,000 a year 10 years ago: $100,000 a year 5 years ago: $150,000 a year last year: $250,000 a year
Okay, now, if you ask me when I'd like to have paid less taxes - or received some UBI... And when I'd be willing to pay taxes, and when I'd be willing to pay it forward, the answer is very clear to me:
UBI + Free Education + Free Healthcare + Progressive Taxes
I think trying to turn someone who ends up making $40,000 a year into someone who ends up making $70,000 a year is worth investing in them, early on in their career.
I'm also willing to give up several things:
Minimum Wage, Union Protections, government mandates on "if you work X hours a week, and the business has Y employees, the business needs to offer you Z benefit"
I believe in education like Sam Seaborn [1]. I believe that automation is really on the verge of granting us essentially infinite Supply of very many goods and services. I believe that UBI + Progressive Taxes are the right way to distribute the benefits of automation as fairly as possible, while still benefiting from the advantages of a capitalistic market.
That's my stand.
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xlyBfInS7ec
Ya thats pretty much my stand. And its pretty much the stand of Canada. (though things might be changing)
I make just south of 150k (CAN) but could certainly afford to pay 10k more in taxes. I think automation and various forms of AI (not really hard AI) will make huge swaths of the public as obsolete as horses. Of course investments in education could then possibly make some of these people productive again.