Negative Income Tax as proposed by Nobel Prize winning economist Milton Friedman is a much much much better implementation than a straight up UBI.
Negative Income Tax as proposed by Nobel Prize winning economist Milton Friedman is a much much much better implementation than a straight up UBI.
Brawndo has what plants crave, it’s got electrolytes.
Pass a law that says you can’t be a violent criminal.
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By this logic because there is infinite time and infinite possibilities, we could develop a cure or a virus that kills this prion and avert this crisis. We could also not and just die. Then there is a possibility that none of this exists and this is a simulation and the developers haven’t added this as a feature yet.
If there was a true civil war the military would probably be divided with some on one side and some on the other but I really doubt there will be a civil war any time in the near future.
Dolph Lundgren is going to star in a movie with that exact premise!
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Star Wars Battle Front 2 (2005)
I cannot tell you how many hours I burned playing Galactic Conquest with friends.
WATCH THOSE WRIST ROCKETS!!!
They also assume all the risk of the property too. Tenants can leave as they please but landlords are stuck with the property if the market turns.
This is why police need to be required by law to have occupational insurance.
That way even if they are found to be not guilty through qualified immunity or whatever BS, no insurance company would insure them, which means they couldn’t work as a cop anywhere.
Intelligence is not the same as Wisdom. People often conflate the two and “AI” as it exists today is equivalent to a 3 year olds level of wisdom and a 40 year olds level of intelligence. It has access to vast amounts of facts and data but is completely unable to actually “understand” context and meaning.
We exist!
That is a weird takeaway from this.
Government: We believe that you need to pay your workers more because we feel like it’s not enough.
Companies: The workers agreed to the pay when they signed on. If you make us pay them more, we cannot afford to pay the workers without raising our rates to levels that people don’t want to pay for.
Government: You will pay them more money.
Companies: We can’t afford to do that so we will be pulling out of this area and now they will make exactly $0 and now people have fewer transportation options.
Government: We did it, we successfully raised people’s earnings to $0! pats self on back for a job well done
And this is my… BOOMSTICK!
I’ve got what plants crave.