How about #Piketty's wealth tax but the revenue distributed entirely as a cash grant?https://scholarsandrogues.com/2016/12/13/what-donald-learned-from-putin-and-what-we-need-to-learn-from-piketty-or-the-despicable-inequality-and-cruel-egalitarianism-of-wealth-part-1/ …
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My 2c:"Basic Income is a great idea, but should only be introduced incrementally, as national wealth grows"
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Bad idea. Basic standards of living needed. Not basic income. Healthcare, edu, food, housing, childcare.
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Better infrastructure around this more useful than Gvt cheque, creating dispsble income & abdicating resp
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we'll have to disagree ;) U r right that IRL there's a danger ubi will displace things it should not, like socialised 1/2
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I would suggest it applies mostly countries that robots replace humans. Poor countries need jobs not UBI, imo
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on the contrary, poor countries may 'leap frog' w/ robot/AI technology to compete globally, then UBI may apply
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"short answer is “it is very hard to know who the poor are "really? Basic income & education go hand in hand
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Always on cusp/new technology & access to it/
#UBI not easily sustainable e.g., Progress & Poverty (c.1879)#HenryGeorge@calestous@cblatts -
But what do I know/I am proudly a life long student in solving the perplexing riddle of
#GlobalPoverty#Globalimbalance@calestous@cblatts
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Why everyone is talking about universal basic incomes https://www.lowyinstitute.org/the-interpreter/why-everyone-talking-about-universal-basic-incomes …
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Without a sustainable economic base it is not sustainable
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if we have personal relief on PAYE which is a form of income, it should be extended to everyone but exclude earners
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UBI "for the poor" misses the point entirely. Universal basic income would go to all citizens.
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your argument against UBI is that there is no political support. But rich elite will never support wealth redistribution
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