It sounds like a lot of you seriously need to carefully watch Elizabeth Warren's "The Coming Collapse of the Middle Class<http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=akVL7QY0S8A#t=1674>" and consider the consequences of her very well researched numbers.
Basically, her numbers state that the inflation figures issued by the government are not just a little off -- they are grotesquely off. The cost of forming a family has increased in real terms a factor of 3 to 4 since 1970. This has resulted in such an enormous demographic collapse in the US -- 10s of millions children foregone for financial reasons -- that it would be considered genocide if it had been deliberate. Indeed, by replacing the non-existent children with immigrants, the program goes beyond simple depopulation to population replacement. You just can't do this kind of thing to a nation and believe you're going to get away scott free. Something horrible is going to happen, guaranteed. The unconditional basic income is what you'll get if you are damn lucky. On Sun, Oct 20, 2013 at 12:18 AM, James Bowery <[email protected]> wrote: > That would gut the essence of the unconditional basic income: > > Placing responsibility for social goods back in the hands of the social > networks surrounding problem cases. > > The point is this: It is not only you who is getting this and not only > the "needy" but everyone -- which means that everyone knows everyone else > has the capacity to render social goods. This, in turn, empowers the > people who surround the problem case to manage that case more effectively > than a government bureaucracy. > > > On Sat, Oct 19, 2013 at 5:00 PM, Blaze Spinnaker <[email protected] > > wrote: > >> They should do an experiment. Randomly select 100 kids in high school >> and tell them that they'll get paid a min income for the rest of their life. >> . >> Find out where they are in 4 years versus a control group >> >> >> On Sat, Oct 19, 2013 at 7:31 AM, Jed Rothwell <[email protected]>wrote: >> >>> Switzerland is considering giving every citizen $2,800 a month gratis, >>> with no strings attached. We have discussed this idea here from time to >>> time. See: >>> >>> >>> http://www.slate.com/blogs/business_insider/2013/10/19/swiss_government_giveaway_2_800_a_month_for_all_citizens.html >>> >>> QUOTE: >>> >>> "We are not proposing a minimum income — we are proposing an >>> unconditional income. A minimum wage reduces freedom — because it is an >>> additional rule. It tries to fix a system that has been outdated for a >>> while. It is time to partly disconnect human labor and income. We are >>> living in a time where machines do a lot of the manual labor — that is >>> great — we should be celebrating." >>> >>> - Jed >>> >>> >> >
