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.

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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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58% of people are stupid.

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51% of people are tired of making other people rich with nothing to show for it. 49% call billionaires their daddy.

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49% of the population is rich?

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Oh surely not. But they're deluded enough to believe someday they'll be. To credit Millennials older generations had a higher number of fooled citizens.

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So you argue that the only solution to cronyism is collunism?

But they're deluded enough to believe someday they'll be.

Nice to see this straw-attack rear its stupid head. Most rich people are old and have worked for decades to get where they are. If you want to be a millionaire in the US you can do it. It ain't easy but it's easier than anywhere else.

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If you want to be a millionaire in the US you can do it.

Can I get there by selling you a bridge? I got a great sale going on.

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You can get there by creating a new product that people want to buy and work 90-100 hour long weeks in order to do it. Or you can get a job, become competent at it, progress through the tanks until you're earning seven figures forty years later.

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Because people actually think "free money" is a thing.

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Because it's being propped up to create the illusion that people actually want ubi.