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I'm going to work full-time on free software
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#12My best argument for UBI is, “I’d love to be able to work on F/OSS full time.”
Kudos for making it a reality. It may be scratching a personal itch, but the positive externalities to society are real.
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#13Really brave to take a gamble on negative income. I really hope it pays off. This could be a very good example of how to make free software.
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#15I wish America had universal health care. If i do this, I can afford to pay for rent and food in a low cost of living area but not health insurance.
Anyone know of a nonprofit that pays for health insurance for ppl working on OSS?
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#16Anyone working on Alpine and Musl wins my more or less automatic upvote.
And then full-time, with no immediate reimbursement and no long-term guarantee. Refreshing. Thank you, sir.
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#17I wish America had universal health care. If i do this, I can afford to pay for rent and food in a low cost of living area but not health insurance. Anyone know of a nonprofit that pays for health insurance for ppl working on OSS?
I don't know if moving is an option for you. But there are plenty of countries that offer free healthcare.
Sweden, UK, Norway... the list goes on.
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#18Here's my best argument for why UBI can't work in the USA. Let me know where i went wrong:
My TV told me a "living wage" is at least $15 (but probably higher in liberal controlled areas like NYC / most CA cities / etc due to high cost of living & taxation), but we'll start with $15 to make it easy.
$15/hr at 40hr/week = $31,200 per year.
$31,200 * 328,300,000 population of USA = $10,242,960,000,000
Written out (for emphasis) that's TEN TRILLION TWO HUNDERD FOURTY THREE MILLION DOLLARS. That's just the handouts, not counting in any overhead / administrative costs to give out the handouts. It'll likely be more than that if you adjust it higher than $15 for people living in NYC, etc.
Meanwhile, the entire GDP of the USA is less than 20 Trillion. That's the current GDP where people are incentivized to work, so it would likely go down (perhaps drastically) when people are paid to do nothing under UBI.
Let me know how that adds up.
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#19I wish America had universal health care. If i do this, I can afford to pay for rent and food in a low cost of living area but not health insurance. Anyone know of a nonprofit that pays for health insurance for ppl working on OSS?
I don't know if moving is an option for you. But there are plenty of countries that offer free healthcare. Sweden, UK, Norway... the list goes on.
Countries with proper (ie almost everyone has it so it is reasonably affordable) paid-for healthcare exist as well, though I'm not aware of one that would be as cheap as the US could be in terms of cost of living.
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#20I wish America had universal health care. If i do this, I can afford to pay for rent and food in a low cost of living area but not health insurance. Anyone know of a nonprofit that pays for health insurance for ppl working on OSS?
I don't know if moving is an option for you. But there are plenty of countries that offer free healthcare. Sweden, UK, Norway... the list goes on.
I can't leave USA due to Green Card constraints.