Everyone pretty much has basic income by the standards of a poorer place or time. The issue is people adjust their expectations based on what other people have. So things like air conditioning would have once been considered a luxury are now considered a necessity by many. People will likely feel poor if the average income is much higher than what they have. To get rid of the feeling of poverty one would need to make income more equal, but we know that's not so great: http://paulgraham.com/ineq.html
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#682What can startups do to help increase prosperity for everyone? Help get money out of politics. This is fundamental. In the current state, all policies are tilted towards the most prosperous among us. We all know this. We need our public servants to be incentivized to work towards the public good. This is the foundation without which all else is futile.
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#683Help me find an abandoned city and rebuild it.
Work with the government to get us experimental-close-to-full authority on our laws so that we may rewrite and change them dynamically.
We pull Social Contract.
We share everything. Money is only used to transact with others outside our city limits.
Software.
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#684Startups already increase global prosperity enormously by targeting massive markets with scalable solutions. Ultimately, the way you make money as a startup is by offering value to your customers, i.e. increasing their wealth. Some examples of this include: Uber/Lyft, decreasing transportation costs and improving quality for millions, while creating tens of thousands of jobs; Airbnb, same thing for hotels; social app…
Founder of Clerky here - trust me, we're working on it ;)
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#685I would love basic income.
I could just stay and play computer games all day =) Relax and go out!
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#686Not sure any startup can fix the fundamental problem that technology moves too fast for evolution. Came from a long line of big, strong, not-too-bright people? You're kind of screwed. Not much call for that anymore.
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#687All I can add to the discussion is that I'm excited to see this, I take this as a sign of progress and us moving closer to a better future, rather than continuing on as things are (which isn't bad, but can be better). I hope it goes as well as I think it will.
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#688History repeats iteld, so it might be good to start by hiring a historian. The claims of impending mass unemployment that serve as the premise for Basic Income were common during the Industrial Revolution. For example, see the "Luddites" https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luddite Ultimately what happened then is that greater efficiencies actually increased the demand for labor. Supply begets demand.
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#689tptacek, please don't apply racist comments on this article. When you don't pay your bills, you simply don't riot on the streets as reaction. Likely not the fault of what you describe as "middle class white" group for enforcing municipal regulation. Likely no innocent parties on either parties involved.
Why was this down-voted? Ask yourself this; If tptacek's comment had the races reversed, would you think it racist? If it's racist to say, 'most crime is committed by African Americans' why isn't it racist to say 'middle class white people are responsible for levying default judgements and financial catastrophes on others?' I'm a middle class white person. I don't wish ill on any black people, or any other people. I…
"Political correctness is ass-backwards."
Sometimes, something that people are calling "political correctness" is merely "correctness", and is not political in nature at all. The statement tptacek made about Ferguson was accurate, and five minutes (or less) of Googling could have confirmed that for you.
To demand color-blind language in this circumstance is to deny the existence of systemic racism, and to make it impossible to discuss solutions. A discussion about Ferguson without acknowledgement of the racial divide in Ferguson is actively harmful to finding solutions.
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#690tptacek, please don't apply racist comments on this article. When you don't pay your bills, you simply don't riot on the streets as reaction. Likely not the fault of what you describe as "middle class white" group for enforcing municipal regulation. Likely no innocent parties on either parties involved.
That's a weird change of subject, a weird distortion of what tptacek said, and weirdly personal to boot.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10984185 and marked it off-topic.