A Genealogy of the Idea of Universal Basic Income
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A Genealogy of the Idea of Universal Basic Income
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Re: A Genealogy of the Idea of Universal Basic Income
#2If everyone gets free money that will just cause inflation.
Get with the program, do something the world needs. Get off your ass and make something. And by something not something the needful. Something well architected.
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#3I don’t know what’s wrong with that website, but visiting it heats up my phone to the point of being uncomfortable to hold.
Re: A Genealogy of the Idea of Universal Basic Income
#4I don’t know what’s wrong with that website, but visiting it heats up my phone to the point of being uncomfortable to hold.
1.2 Megabytes of JavaScript and 900 kilobytes of css will probably do that.
They have more JS and stylesheet to present their website about books ... than actual books have letters.
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#5I don’t know what’s wrong with that website, but visiting it heats up my phone to the point of being uncomfortable to hold.
Based on the load time, they must be proxying all requests through your phone.
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#6Spaniard here since this article[1] about Spain was prominently noted in the linked article, there isn't a basic income plan here and nothing like that has happened, please stop with making up this kind of stuff about other countries.
There is regular unemployment insurance and an unemployment plan targeted to temporary job freezes (ERTE) that has always existed, nothing to do with basic income. I would also like to see BI even if it's just a test, but what we have here has nothing to do with it.
The government has just made the rules for these pre-existing unemployment plans a bit more flexible (or arguably not). Also the rent situation has become a lot better.
[1] https://www.businessinsider.nl/spain-universal-basic-income-...
Edit: removed references to the future since I cannot predict it and moved those to the present.
Edit 2: it's also interesting to see the original headline was "Spain is moving to" (already false, there's no specific plan now) but in this article the mention was "Spain decided to institute the program" (ridiculous).
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#7A few points of annoyances-
>AOC
Why anyone listens to a populist demagogue blows my mind. She has 0 policy experience. Why not quote any random Congressperson?
>UBI
This usually comes in the form of getting rid of food stamps, ending housing subsidies, removing welfare... None of which are being discussed.
The nature of United States politics is getting on wreckless. Free money and demagogry.
Re: A Genealogy of the Idea of Universal Basic Income
#8I don’t know what’s wrong with that website, but visiting it heats up my phone to the point of being uncomfortable to hold.
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Re: A Genealogy of the Idea of Universal Basic Income
#9A few points of annoyances- >AOC Why anyone listens to a populist demagogue blows my mind. She has 0 policy experience. Why not quote any random Congressperson? >UBI This usually comes in the form of getting rid of food stamps, ending housing subsidies, removing welfare... None of which are being discussed. The nature of United States politics is getting on wreckless. Free money and demagogry.
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Re: A Genealogy of the Idea of Universal Basic Income
#10Spaniard here since this article[1] about Spain was prominently noted in the linked article, there isn't a basic income plan here and nothing like that has happened, please stop with making up this kind of stuff about other countries. There is regular unemployment insurance and an unemployment plan targeted to temporary job freezes (ERTE) that has always existed, nothing to do with basic income. I would also like to…
Seen similar misinformation about Nordic countries and their UBI testing/experiments.
There is definitely a component to how much someone wants to believe something to clickbait/fakenews.