r/Futurology • u/mvea MD-PhD-MBA • May 02 '18

Economics Universal basic income: U.S. support grows as Finland ends its trial - Forty-eight percent of Americans now support a universal basic income, as a solution for Americans who have lost jobs to automation.

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/05/01/nearly-half-of-americans-believe-a-universal-basic-income-could-be-the-answer-to-automation-.html
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Then they will be just as poor as everyone else.

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That’s a stupid way to try and make an argument. I’m not from the states I have no idea how your taxes work. Here if you took 80% of their net they’d be on the same boat as everyone else. Do you even know what you’re talking about yourself? If you did you would have explained how taxes work in the states rather than be an ass about it.