| BI is affordable. Top economists have done the numbers. The people telling you we can't afford it are millionaires hired by billionaires to keep the status quo going. The top tax bracket is currently 35% - and very few actually pay anything like that. Tax the rich. The argument that people would stop working and being productive if not under the threat of starvation has been debunked over and over and over again. The people telling you the threat of death is necessary for the economy are millionaires hired by billionaires to keep the status quo going. Most of the "free money" America gives out is to the extraordinarily wealthy. Billionaires getting tax breaks, paying virtually nothing or even getting their money back. This is while children are going hungry, and millions are suffering from simple and treatable conditions. You speak candidly of people being forced to join the military for a chance at a better life, but it doesn't seem to all quite connect and join up in your worldview. There are very few countries where is it seen as normal to have to join the military for "food, clothing, shelter, income, insurance, etc". And no other country's military is nearly so "active" and well funded. It cannot be overstated just how stunning the difference is between how the US perceives our military's actions, and how the rest of the world sees them. The reason for that - once again - is that millionaires are hired by billionaires to create that false narrative. > ...we live in the age of the autodidact thanks to the internet. Anyone that can't be bothered to take half an hour a day to educate themselves doesn't want or need help. I left my job in automation right after the recession and since all that had happened I decided to learn how the economy works, how the dollar works, what the Fed is and how it works, how it applies geo-politically, ect. It's why nowadays I sit at home in my boxers and trade the markets while also having a second portfolio that is more passive and functions best if left alone. Is this a blunt parody of privilege? Am I getting Poe's Law-ed? I'm glad you're alright, Jack, but telling society to just join the Army and use the internet to beat the market in their boxers strikes me as staggeringly callous and disconnected. Please, please tell me that was humor. |