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I’m pretty sure the rationale given by current politicians for at-present proposals is that they are arranging their income to avoid taxes, and therefore they aren’t paying their “fair” share.

It’s nauseating but evasion (a legal term) and avoidance are taken as the same morally compromised position now.

The United States held the majority of the worlds factories and almost all of the ones that weren’t in a decimated war torn country.

It took nearly 20 years to rebuild Europe to the point that it could compete, and USSR was largely cut off from global supply in western worlds.

It’s not the same today and one cannot possibly assert with a straight face that we would enjoy a decade of 37% growth with those rates.

Not to mention it was still a society where one could legitimately hide income from the government with ease.

Maybe he’s making the point that income tax brackets are rarely adjusted for inflation.

The $250k (single) and $400k (couple) brackets haven’t changed - except for 11 years out of the past 25 - but you can buy a heck of a lot less with that sum of money now.

But wouldn’t you want to eat basic hard tack the rest of your life if it meant you got to drink unicorn tears at every meal?

These questions posed about UBI never fail to promise the impossible (your ultimate happiness/freedom) in exchange for something equally impossible (a basic income sufficient to meet even the most austere of needs).

I yawn.

In 1995 I could write a GUI app that processed incredibly complex datasets (even for today, although smaller in total size since my hard drive was 40mb). Drag and drop controls onto a page, and even if I wrote my own control population logic, I was done in hours.

Try that with web dev. It’s sad that it’s not better - but it’s not better.

Extraordinarily vague rationale used to caution one away from a positive mental health. I’ll pass.

Having to give everything some weeks or months or years of outrage, and only able to subside when the new outrage target emerges has a tendency to make everything [feel] less stable.

Maybe it’s not less stable, we are just reacting to it more.

We act like no one has ever seen inflation or a stupid war or a recession. It’s got to be the worst thing that’s ever happened with no future left for humanity (I won’t even digress into the climate discussion, but I could).

I don’t think this is healthy. Being addicted to your own brain stress hormone chemistry isn’t a beneficial disposition. So I somewhat refuse to participate. I accept that 8 million in the world died of covid and that some stuff will cost more this year than last, and that I may not get the same proportion of a raise. Maybe I’ll go 8 years between new cars instead of 6, but am I really that abused by this?

TLDR; I stopped hyperventilating over every thing social and traditional media told me to be outraged about, and I’m happier.

I believe this was disputed by a former employee elsewhere ITT.

> There are no morals, only interests.

Very well said. Buying from Venezuela and Iran is something that some American prefer over local production even, which further exacerbates the obvious lack of morals.

A lot of billionaires have organized businesses but never tinkered with anything constructive in their lives. They don’t even own a black and decker power tool.

In what way is shipping fuel expected to get cheaper?

I’m not aware of any significant and serious efforts to replace ships with a green fuel, and they comprise a huge percentage of our emissions.

ITT and it’s criticism of vehicular personal transportation. And I hope that answers both questions you have.

Most of those cities were designed when horses weren’t even an option. But some of us don’t consider that nicer.

Perhaps you’re surrounded by open minded people who you can gracefully decline to agree with on every subject. Many of us live in areas where not holding status quo opinions is enough to lose your job. So I can see where folks would try to believe something despite cognitive dissonance with it.

Perhaps the secondary consequences of the actions take to allegedly avoid deaths, which may or may not have actually avoided deaths, but most assuredly and profoundly affected children in a negative way. Especially poor children.

We should have focused on that. We should have found any way possoble to not blight a generation of children on the basis that grandmothers who would die in 18 months may die in 12 months instead. It may sound harsh, but that’s what we should have done.

The issue that I suffer from is that there is no such thing as silence. Even the sound of my breathing can be triggering, and the quietest of quiet keyboards will still set me off.

OP probably doesn’t want to answer this question for the exact reason he posted his comment. Your inquiry may be in good faith but it is 99% of how the cancel warfare begins: “Here let me ask a really introspective question to see exactly how badly I’m going to throw my code words at you in my response.”

Tongue in cheek: the structural changes can’t be as dramatic as the ones brought on by social media fixation on COVID-19.

Or evidence of its war crimes and torture against its own citizens, contradicting its own constitutional requirements.

We already have despots running the country.

I would say that we had a spring even. Because by the summer with the whole world taking to the streets over George Floyd, it seemed pretty much like we weren’t going to have a major problem.

In what ways do you think UBI (in any country, not just Africa) would be insulated from the kinds of corruption you just described that occurs with groceries?

Why would you assume it doesn’t?

I would love to transition to a Linux for most things but I can’t give up the ability to text via my mac desktop. It’s so much faster and I barely suffer a context switch.

Having to stop and pick up my phone to type with my thumb is just agonizing. And not everyone I deal with is on slack.

I’m just looking for the basic, “there are enough chips to make stoves and automobiles that I am wanting to buy” amount of supply.

Does this mean we could write and iMessage client for Linux?

> Prices rise due to increased consumer spending capability, to the point where you have to work again to get above the poverty line.

By far this is the easiest to predict, but least likely to be addressed (by the proponents) concern I have with UBI.

A social safety net shouldn’t be a hammock, as it is said. I’m concerned with AI and what happens when it’s pointless to hire people because a $100k robot can do the same work as 3 of them and do so 20 hours a day. By then UBI may be our answer. But it doesn’t seem so now.

You're basically describing a policy whereby no new homes would be developed. Who builds new houses for the extra people we acquire every year?

I respect far more a site meant to bypass paywalls for shitnews that I probably will find laughable, but want to read.

True, but the first sentence is :

“In this series (see Parts I, II, III, and IV), our resident Bay-Area psychotherapist takes us to the depths of the professional-managerial class psyche.”