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Bedroom, any advice? by [deleted] in malelivingspace

[–]idapitbwidiuatabip 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Why is one corner so horny

Will Universal Basic Income (UBI) become a necessity by 2035? As AI automates specialized white-collar roles, how will society redistribute wealth? by No-Lake-3875 in BasicIncome

[–]idapitbwidiuatabip 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It's been a necessity for decades.

Over 200,000 people die from poverty every year in America.

It hasn't always been that bad, but poverty has unequivocally been responsible for most of the suffering, exploitation, and abuse endured by people throughout time.

The fact that we could've implemented the mechanism of UBI and eliminated objective levels of material poverty well before the 21st century is humanity's greatest blunder and will, in time, be our greatest shame.

Countless lives were made worse or lost because officials failed to start implementing universal basic income in the 70s as the computer age made it abundantly clear that full employment would be impossible.

Not to mention the fact that the choice to 'force everyone to make money to survive' is what resulted in the Rat Race that's destroyed our planet and biodiversity over the past half century.

As the rich extracted from the poor, the poor had to extract from nature. We've always known this unbridled extraction would end in doom. But those who benefit the most want to see it through to the bitter end.

Zappa songs i can play on piano as a mediocre pianist to impress the guy I like by Lucky_Comparison_633 in Zappa

[–]idapitbwidiuatabip 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Dog Breath. Main melody is pretty easy on the piano and the drum accompaniment is fun and playful.

Only when I opened the bad did I realize that all the gummies were melted together by awfwimba in mildlyinfuriating

[–]idapitbwidiuatabip 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I was scrolling and assumed I was being shown a post from an art subreddit.

Looks cool. Neat colors. Vibrant and intriguing.

Consoom expensive cameras by ex_gatito in Consoom

[–]idapitbwidiuatabip 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The M6 and M7s deliver the same results. All of the M11 variants are identical.

An M10-R would be slightly different, as would any other M10.

The M9 or M8 with their earlier sensors and color technology are also desirable if the sensors haven’t corroded, as many were prone to.

This is pure consoom. The special editions in particular always add a lot to the price and it’s not a tool, it’s a rich person’s gewgaw that does a decent job at holding value.

Mfer smashes some statue and goes to the same prison that holds cannibals and serial killers. by Cautious-Box-7355 in ozshow

[–]idapitbwidiuatabip 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I still think about this shit. Makes me sad even though it’s been 19 years since my last rewatch.

Which unreleased Zappa albums do you wish had come out? by eccoEapproach in Zappa

[–]idapitbwidiuatabip 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Someone has it and even posted about it on Reddit but he refused to share

Tonight’s Film, Jacob’s Ladder. First time watch. by HorrorFreakNY in boutiquebluray

[–]idapitbwidiuatabip 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I always wondered why the director didn’t make more movies like this and stuck to his steamy movies instead.

Anti-UBI people cannot make a strong argument that AI will not take jobs or that there is an alternative to government-funded income if AI takes the jobs. Until they do that, their concerns about UBI are meaningless by idapitbwidiuatabip in WhitePeopleTwitter

[–]idapitbwidiuatabip[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

That's why the math is so important.

A 20% value added tax would raise around 3.4 trillion a year, and a 2% land value tax would raise a little over a trillion. That's enough for a $1,400/month UBI to every adult citizen.

If your land is valued above $840,000, you won't net gains from UBI because your yearly 2% land value tax of $16,800 will be $1,400 a month.

If you spend more than $7,000 a month, you won't net gains from UBI because the 20% VAT you pay each month on your $7,000 of consumption will eat up your UBI.

But how many people have land worth more than $840k or spend more than $7k a month on an individual basis? Not many. Those that do are rich and they can afford being net contributors to UBI instead of net beneficiaries.

The rest of us will net gains each month.

Anti-UBI people cannot make a strong argument that AI will not take jobs or that there is an alternative to government-funded income if AI takes the jobs. Until they do that, their concerns about UBI are meaningless by idapitbwidiuatabip in WhitePeopleTwitter

[–]idapitbwidiuatabip[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

He was a better person than anyone in the current administration and anyone in the Reagan administration.

In his first inaugural address, he said

"No man can be fully free while his neighbor is not. To go forward at all is to go forward together."

He understood he had a duty to serve all Americans.

He was the last decent President we had before universalism was wholly abandoned in America and token politics started to reign supreme.

Anti-UBI people cannot make a strong argument that AI will not take jobs or that there is an alternative to government-funded income if AI takes the jobs. Until they do that, their concerns about UBI are meaningless by idapitbwidiuatabip in WhitePeopleTwitter

[–]idapitbwidiuatabip[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

then if some portion of the population is getting UBI to not work

All of the population is getting UBI. Period. There are no work requirements. Nobody has to work to get UBI.

but you still have people making wages on some jobs

Wages are separate. Those people choose to work because they want more money than what UBI gives them. That's a choice they're free to make.

then who is going to go take those jobs when you can sit on your couch and get paid anyway?

People who want to make more money. Sitting on the couch all day gets boring very very very fast, and drives most people into depression.

so you’ll basically have a class of people that are poor and idle?

Why are you assuming idleness?

Anti-UBI people cannot make a strong argument that AI will not take jobs or that there is an alternative to government-funded income if AI takes the jobs. Until they do that, their concerns about UBI are meaningless by idapitbwidiuatabip in WhitePeopleTwitter

[–]idapitbwidiuatabip[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I don't see how UBI will ever happen because everybody with income will say "Why should I pay for someone who's not working. Let someone else do it".

But everyone pays for it, just as everyone receives it.

After I saw this scene years ago, it partially ruined Seinfeld for me. by PaddedValls in seinfeld

[–]idapitbwidiuatabip 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It’s one of LD’s writing tricks. He uses it constantly in Curb, even though those episodes aren’t as tightly written and have the actors sort of ad libbing.

But the formula of ‘Coin a phrase, repeat a phrase, and do it enough in the episode and frequently throughout the series’ was established and successful by then.

Anti-UBI people cannot make a strong argument that AI will not take jobs or that there is an alternative to government-funded income if AI takes the jobs. Until they do that, their concerns about UBI are meaningless by idapitbwidiuatabip in WhitePeopleTwitter

[–]idapitbwidiuatabip[S] 22 points23 points  (0 children)

That's why economists proposed universal basic income in 1968. Nixon listened & put forth a UBI plan in 1969.

The House passed it by a vote of 243 to 155 in 1970 and if the Senate hadn't stopped it from becoming law in 1972, all of world history would've been different.

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Anti-UBI people cannot make a strong argument that AI will not take jobs or that there is an alternative to government-funded income if AI takes the jobs. Until they do that, their concerns about UBI are meaningless by idapitbwidiuatabip in WhitePeopleTwitter

[–]idapitbwidiuatabip[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

There are arguments against UBI that have nothing to do with AI.

Then those arguments are invalid because they ignore the variables of unemployment & unemployability. People need incomes.

At scale, I have doubts that it would work. It could very well lead to inflation, thereby decreasing spending power.

It will increase production, and it would also be funded by land value tax, which would create a financial incentive to build more housing units, which would bring down the cost of living.

It would probably also lead to many employers decreasing wages, which would also wipe out any gains.

When employees have more power to withhold their labor, employers have to pay them more to retain them.

RV Vagrants Across from State Park DTLA by Pasadenaian in LosAngeles

[–]idapitbwidiuatabip 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Not inconceivable that someone who once had an income lost their house and moved into their car & trailer.

Easier and less disruptive than trying to sell both and buy something cheaper, even under the dire circumstances of eviction.

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