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by anticon 11y ago
It's extremely funny how every argument for Basic Income completely ignores the fact you will have to centrally plan how you're going to get all this endless money to give people. You're going to decide where to raise taxes.
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by anticon 11y ago
Because there is no free money. We would all have to pay for it. We would be subsidising laziness.
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by anticon 11y ago
If we redistributed wealth around the world, everyone would be poor, unable to start companies, etc etc. Does that really solve anything useful? You do realise that if you redistributed wealth over the world, you would be drastically worse
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by anticon 11y ago
The level of koolaid here is just too large a mountain to attempt to scale. Automation will just move a few jobs around, like it always has done. And yes - we don't need jobs. But no - that doesn't mean the state should give every
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by anticon 11y ago
The UK government currently spends around £120b on welfare (Including pensions) a year. Please don't pluck false information out of thin air.
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by anticon 11y ago
Yeah I'm sure you could find that missing £85bn down the back of a sofa in whitehall. Sorry, but the whole idea is laughable. Not to mention the fact that it's another incentive to have more children and bigger families because th
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by anticon 11y ago
So you want to spend £240 billion pounds, twice the NHS budget in the UK, on helping struggling artists?
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by anticon 11y ago
How would they take more from the billionaire? Means test them? What if they're asset rich, cash poor... or if they have no income? The whole idea is unworkable. It's like it's been dreamed up by a 5 year old.
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by anticon 11y ago
You don't mention the fact it's completely unworkable mathematically. In the UK I believe it'd cost £240 billion a year. Where the hell would anyone be able to find that money from? (Tackling tax avoidance from Starbucks isn&
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by anticon 11y ago
So in effect Basic Income is even worse as it doesn't means test recipients. If you're a billionaire, the state is still going to give you money.
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by anticon 11y ago
Seriously? Do you not think you're in a bubble of 1%ers? Most people aren't itching to start a company you know... Most want to watch American Idol and do nothing.
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by anticon 11y ago
People starting companies are driven, determined people who want to create things. The vast majority of people are not. You're vastly over-estimating the general population. The majority are lazy, and if given money, will sit watching
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by anticon 11y ago
Yes. I had to fax them something (I forget what) to prove it was my email address. It took about a week to get it sorted. I'd echo others though - Google is awful at support. They're awful at communication. They decide to shut dow
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by anticon 11y ago
This worked for me. My account was suspended in error years ago (Suspect logins or something), and the only way I got it back was by calling up an adwords representative and telling them I couldn't login to adwords and spend money unti
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by anticon 11y ago
It's going to be great when these cars are around a bit more. You could have some pretty good fun trying to get one of the self driving cars to crash into you. Won't be that hard to do I'm sure.
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by anticon 11y ago
There's a lot of examples. Just watch Back To The Future Part II for some obvious examples. When they landed on the moon, do you think they thought we'd still be faffing about doing not much in space 50 years later? I'm betti
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by anticon 11y ago
A lot of taxi drivers grew up when London was part of England, before it became a "global city". It's unsurprising that they miss those days when it was still culturally part of England.
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by anticon 11y ago
Never had a bad black cab ride. I'd trust any black cab driver over software/GPS etc.
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by anticon 11y ago
Making them available in California isn't the same as making them available in a). Countries that have weather, and b). Countries that have curved roads. As another poster comments, it's as close as several other science fiction t
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by anticon 11y ago
Perhaps in 100 years some of the easiest roads will be driven by self driving cars. I doubt any of these drivers are too worried.
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by anticon 11y ago
Why do you think it won't save them? Uber has been banned and ruled illegal. I doubt that'll be overturned. The strike is just to raise public awareness of multinational companies coming in and not following regulations to make mo
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by anticon 11y ago
You get what you pay for. If you're happy to entrust your life into a random untrained uninsured stranger, then go ahead and get the cheaper unregulated taxi.