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HOLY SHIT, IT WAS THE ORIGINAL ONE
MAKE A WISH
the first post ever on tumblr
I WAS EXPECTING IT TO BE A REMAKE OF SOME SORT HOLY FUCK
WHO THE FUCK KEEPS BRINGING THIS BACK
reblog this because it shows up every blue moon
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Guaranteed basic income to every citizen, whether or not they are employed to ensure their survival and that they live in a dignified, humane way, preventing poverty, illness, homelessness, reducing crime, encouraging higher education and learning vocations as well as helping society become more prosperous as a whole.Â
Wow. Forget raising the minimum wage. This is much much better idea.
The minimum wage could actually drop if we had basic income.
But Americans would never go for it. Miserably slogging through 12 hour days and having businesses open 24/7 is too engrained in our culture.
âBUT WHERE WILL THE GOVERNMENT GET THE MONEY?â screamed Joe Schmoe, slamming a meaty fist onto the table and getting mouth-froth all over the front of his greying tank top. âYou libt*rds all think money grows on TREES!! HAHA!â âBut where will people get the incentive to work?!â Mindy Bindy cried, flapping her hands in front of her face. Sheâd had a fear of the unemployed lollygagging about ever since she was a child and her mother told her to be afraid of the unemployed lollygagging about. âYou think people should get paid for nothing? I work hard for my money!â
âBut who will serve me?â grumbled Marty McMoneybags. âWho will make me feel important? Who will do my laundry and cook my food and stand in front of me wearing a plastic smile while I take out all my stressâbecause I do have a lot of stress, you know, being this rich is stressfulâon them?â He paused and straightened out the piles of hundred dollar bills on the desk in front of him, then raised his two watery, outraged eyes up to the Heavens. âLord, if there are no poor people, how will I know that Iâm rich??â
I laughed. This is perfect! Well said!
The thing is, while Iâm sure you could scrape up a few people whoâd be willing to just float by on a guaranteed minimum income? For most people the choice to work would be a no-brainer. âHmmm. I can get by on 33k a year, or I can take that part time job and make 48k⊠enough to move to a better apartment, maybe take the family on vacation. Sold.â Hell, most people would want to work simply because it gives one a sense of dignity and something to do with oneâs time. (Speaking as someone whoâs been unemployed, on extended sick leave, etc. in her time, the boredom and sense of isolation that comes with not having a job is almost as bad as the humiliation of having to depend on other people for oneâs survival.)
And with this system, part-time jobs and ânon-skilledâ jobs would be much more readily available because nobody would need to work two or three jobs just to stay afloat!
Which would ALSO mean that employers and customers couldnât shamelessly exploit employees the way they can today, because if losing a job werenât necessarily a financial disaster, more people would be willing to walk out on jobs where they werenât being treated with dignity.
And if this also applies to students (and it should) then student loans would become much less of a problem, and fewer people would flunk out of school because of having to juggle studies and work.
Far fewer people would be forced to stay with abusive partners, parents or roommates because they couldnât afford to move out.
And the thing is, all those people who suddenly had money? Theyâd be spending it. Theyâd be getting all the stuff they canât afford now - new clothes, books, toys, locally-produced food, car repairs - and with each purchase money would flow BACK to the government, because VAT, also income tax.
The unemployed and/or disabled wouldnât need special support any more - which would also mean the government could fire however many admins who are currently engaged in humiliating - *cough* making sure those people arenât getting money they donât deserve. Same for medical benefits and pensions. And Iâm no legal scholar, but I somehow imagine less financial desperation would lead to less petty crime, and hence less need for police and security everywhere?
TL;DR Doomie thinks this is a good idea, laughs at those who protest.
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They tried something like this out in Canada as a sort of social experiment, called Mincome. What they found was that, on the whole, people continued to work about as much as they did before. Only new mothers and teenagers worked substantially less hours.Â
But wait, thereâs more. Because parents were spending just a little more time at home and involved with their families, test scores increased. Because teens didnât have to work to support their families, drop-out rates decreased. Crime rates, hospital visits, psychiatric hospitalizations and domestic abuse rates all dropped, as well. More adults pursued higher education. Those who continued to work reported more job flexibility and more opportunity to choose employment they preferred.
Basically, now you can go prove to your asshole family members that society wonât collapse without poor people for you to feel better than.
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I think that people easily forget...
That the oldest of the Millennials are 36 years old.
In fact, some charts have them ending as early as 1995.
So if you were born between â95 and 2000 you could be either a Millennial or Gen Z.
I think the point Iâm trying to make here is that most people talk about Millennials as if theyâre all clueless teenagers when in reality theyâre likely between the ages of 20-36.
Millennials are generally young adults suffering from a failing economy and a failed educational system, being portrayed as clueless children by the people who broke the economy and the educational system.
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Thank you for this.
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