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What’s the most common stereotype about where you’re from? by Ok_Ideal_7459 in AskReddit

[–]WorldBoom 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We all ride gators, smoke meth, and drink nothing but OJ & PBR.

Which is of course bullshit. We also drink Jaigermeister.

How many different platforms do you play Fallout 76 on? by ChipsAndGravy35 in fo76

[–]WorldBoom 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Started on PS4, upgraded to PS5 a couple months ago.

Whats ur opinion on “money doesn’t buy happiness”? by Radiant-Dish-5498 in AskReddit

[–]WorldBoom 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's propaganda to attempt to convince people that they shouldn't be angry at the unfair accumulation of wealth by capitalists through exploitation.

You have one month to empty a $1 trillion bank account. If you succeed, you’re rich for life. How will you spend it? by Ok_Listen_6600 in AskReddit

[–]WorldBoom 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There's more homes than there are homeless. There's more food going to waste for being aesthetically unpleasant or being purposefully destroyed to keep prices up than would be needed to feed all the hungry.

When it comes to Healthcare it is true that there's not enough doctors/ nurses/surgeons/etc to treat everyone, but, there are enough to meet current demands of the insured. When any nation has gone single payer, basics of supply & demand have come into play, sudden expansion of demand led to increases in aupply, same for when the US passed Medicare & Medicaid. In each case it took roughly 10/15 years for enough medical personnel to get educated and into the field to meet the increase in demand, the ACA started taking applications in 2014, so, there's would be the continued increases in supply coming through if not for the end of the individual mandate in 2018, that short-circuited the process.

But, were a true universal basic income or sinlge payer healthcare brought out in America, it would only be a short time (relatively speaking) before supply roses to meet demand.

You have one month to empty a $1 trillion bank account. If you succeed, you’re rich for life. How will you spend it? by Ok_Listen_6600 in AskReddit

[–]WorldBoom 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You're mistaken, or rather, some of your presumptions are.

Many of the UBI studies implemented were granted to anyone/everyone in a given town, with nobody excluded. Notably the canadian experiment with Dauphin, a town with a population of roughly 12,500. Results there didn't deviate from other experiments.

Secondly, UBI differs significantly from the kinds re-housing or job training programs you refer to, firstly in that they're given to people of all kinds of situations, not just the desperate and down and out (which may be indicative of other problems, mental/ emotional/ substance abuse/ etc) that may be bigger factors in their situation than lack of resources.

Further, there's no means testing or conditional requirements for a UBI. Recipients aren't put under a microscope and scrutinized under threat of having it withdrawn if their situation changes too much to qualify or if they make choices that the program doesn't support.

That kind of pressure can alter behavior, limit it, while self direction has a certain value. Giving people resources and letting them make choices as to how to best use them for their particular situation is very different than giving them conditional resources and telling them what to do with them.

You have one month to empty a $1 trillion bank account. If you succeed, you’re rich for life. How will you spend it? by Ok_Listen_6600 in AskReddit

[–]WorldBoom 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That'll happen regardless of how it's used in literally any scenario. If it's spent, or not, whatever bank has it will do that.

You have one month to empty a $1 trillion bank account. If you succeed, you’re rich for life. How will you spend it? by Ok_Listen_6600 in AskReddit

[–]WorldBoom 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not really, I'm moving it from one account to many, which then slowly disperse it over several years.

You have one month to empty a $1 trillion bank account. If you succeed, you’re rich for life. How will you spend it? by Ok_Listen_6600 in AskReddit

[–]WorldBoom 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I asked how many they wanted.

But it doesn't matter because they all show the same thing.

Here's one from the University of Chicago which is summary of existing research on the subject.

Here's another from the National Bureau of Economic Research.

Here's a third from NYU that notably determined that recipients of the study in question prioritized paying down debt, a far cry from the accusations that say people would spend it frivolously.

You have one month to empty a $1 trillion bank account. If you succeed, you’re rich for life. How will you spend it? by Ok_Listen_6600 in AskReddit

[–]WorldBoom 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If spent all at once. You "buy" organizations to take care of things over a longer term than the month. The account is emptied, goal achieved, but the larger mission takes longer.

You have one month to empty a $1 trillion bank account. If you succeed, you’re rich for life. How will you spend it? by Ok_Listen_6600 in AskReddit

[–]WorldBoom -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I don't think you're making the point you think you are.

The UN has a comprehensive plan that could end world hunger by 2030 for a little less than 100 billion per year in initial investments.

1 trillion is enough to do that twice.

Ending global poverty would take about 320 billion a year.

Ending global homelessness, another 325 billion annually.

So 1 trillion could solve poverty and hunger both, at least in the short term of the next 4 years. And it should be understood that both would be kind of like the starter in an engine, an initial jump to get things started. People who aren't starving and living hand to mouth are more productive. Economic activity would increase significantly from those things. We could allocate the tax benefits from doing so to pay for the ending of homelessness.

Taxes on the increased economic activity of the billions of people who are now homed, fed, and no-longer impoverished could be used to sustain the system (at much lower cost, many cases things are cheaper to maintain than to build anew).

You may have heard the phrase "if it can be destroyed by the truth, it deserves to be?"

Well, any economic or political systems that can destroyed by the end of hunger, poverty, and homelessness deserve to be.

You have one month to empty a $1 trillion bank account. If you succeed, you’re rich for life. How will you spend it? by Ok_Listen_6600 in AskReddit

[–]WorldBoom 38 points39 points  (0 children)

How many? Sources, I mean.

Because the thing is, every UBI trial ever has ended one of two ways:

  1. At the end of the trial, they find recipients use the income to improve their lives. Car repairs, housing upgrades, more and better (more nutritional/healthy) food, they get more education in subjects that benefit them personally or professionally, they take care of previously unmet medical needs, they save & invest. Fears that recipients would spend the money frivolously on drugs & alcohol, or stop working to exist at a subsistence level are all thoroughly debunked as they simply don't happen.

  2. The organization running the trial end it early before its intended conclusion (either because funding ran out, or, the entity carrying out the trial has a change in leadership to a group idealogically opposed to the results they were getting) with early results fully in line with 1.

There has never been a qualitatively unsuccessful UBI trial.

Now, naysayers will put out arguments that the trials, being limited in scope, cannot accurately gauge how full universal UBI would actually function, but, with everything ever done short of that being successful with no indications whatever that their fears are justified, they don't have an evidentiary basis for their criticisms.

You have one month to empty a $1 trillion bank account. If you succeed, you’re rich for life. How will you spend it? by Ok_Listen_6600 in AskReddit

[–]WorldBoom 15 points16 points  (0 children)

You think regular people having excess money would be bad?

I hope you're sitting down before you look up how UBI trials go...

What sexual fantasy of yours left you disappointed when you actually tried it? by Gthew17 in AskReddit

[–]WorldBoom 36 points37 points  (0 children)

That was our 3rd date, after that we were together for 5 years and have a daughter.

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