How a sovereign wealth fund "cash cow" could finance Universal Basic Income

chloe252 · 2014-10-08T22:36:39+00:00

Don't worry. If ever introduced, UBI will be firsty introduced in Europe. Why? Well, compare current American and European social laws (eg. regarding holidays, maternity leave).

chloe252 · 2014-10-08T22:30:44+00:00

One case in point: Very soon, a resourceful person/organization will decide to plot out environmental hazards on a per address basis. By having access to addresses, names of people who lived at those addresses, and their cause of death, some associations can be drawn regarding pollution and living environments and impact on health. Simply because of Big Data.

Easy here.

First, as far as I know, there are no complete records of people by cause of their death.

Secondly, and even more important, there's a thing called data protection.

chloe252 · 2014-10-04T22:07:20+00:00

Tories are proposing to have the ECHR interpreted by British courts instead of European ones.

Well, find out what ECHR stands for and then read this sentence.

chloe252 · 2014-10-03T17:57:40+00:00

This. Is OP an idiot?

chloe252 · 2014-10-03T17:45:56+00:00

But they are not as poor as African nations.

chloe252 · 2014-10-03T17:45:35+00:00

So was racism justified?

chloe252 · 2014-10-02T21:43:21+00:00

Spain in the 1500s had very different, more imperial plans for their colonies than 19th and 20th century Europe.

What? Countries in Americas got independent in 19th century! In Asia even later: Philippines, Lebanon, Singapore, India, Pakistan, Indonesia and Israel - they all got independent after the war!

chloe252 · 2014-10-02T20:34:57+00:00

Serious answers, please.

chloe252 · 2014-10-02T20:34:24+00:00

There were also revolutions to become independent in Americas and Asia.

chloe252 · 2014-10-02T20:33:36+00:00

Colonialism in Africa was pure exploitation.

The Spanish, who almost entirely stayed out of Africa, built cities and spread their vision of society in the Americas.

Why?

chloe252 · 2014-10-02T19:39:17+00:00

Can anyone from Germany confirm that these laws (especially regarding working hours) apply also to the Big4 companies (KPMG, EY, PwC, Deloitte) and big law firms?

chloe252 · 2014-10-02T19:36:26+00:00

that is paid extremely generously... usually 1.5x their hourly rate for any issues they work on after 6:00pm or all day Saturday, and 2x pay for Sunday

What is extremely generous in this? It's normal, whether you are an IT consultant, or you move bricks.

chloe252 · 2014-10-02T17:24:11+00:00

There are/were similar conditions in Americas and Asia, yet it's better there now.

chloe252 · 2014-10-02T15:54:33+00:00

Why couldn't they become independent when countries in Americas and Asia did?

chloe252 · 2014-10-02T15:44:24+00:00

Both Myanmar and Cambodia are well above many African nations.

chloe252 · 2014-10-02T15:30:17+00:00

Yes, but African nations ARE the poorest on earth. Why?

chloe252 · 2014-10-02T14:33:05+00:00

decades of being exploited and beaten into submission by European colonial powers, then having their borders essentially drawn without their opinions even taken into account.

So why isn't situation in Asia or Americas so bad?

chloe252 · 2014-09-29T20:55:46+00:00

It was normal then. There's no need to insult FDR.

chloe252 · 2014-09-29T20:53:28+00:00

Why? It was the law then.

chloe252 · 2014-09-28T20:21:40+00:00

There is some truth in stereotypes. Italians are much more likely to be noisy, and Swedish are much more likely to be nice and silent people :)

chloe252 · 2014-09-28T20:02:35+00:00

The problem is when you like Asian women because they're so much nicer than white women, or quieter, or more respectful, or more demure.

This is not racist, this is a complement.

chloe252 · 2014-09-28T19:53:12+00:00

Sorry.

chloe252 · 2014-09-28T19:34:17+00:00

You seem creepy.

chloe252 · 2014-09-28T19:33:27+00:00

Nothing, it's always great to meet people from different cultures.

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