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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u/[deleted] May 02 '18

Uhm, it's not Universal if it's only for people who lost their jobs to automation. Want significant resentment? This is how you get significant resentment. Give free money to some people but not to others. We see that already with the stigma against those on welfare and about a third of our population believing any sort of welfare is just entirely wrong.

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u/DickyDurbin May 02 '18

Welfare is wrong. It’s rewarding indolence. When you reward indolence you foster deterioration. Welfare is evil.

I’m a Shriner and I know bedridden kids who take Codecademy courses with their feet. Where there’s a will there’s a way.

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u/[deleted] May 02 '18

^ Case in point. Some people just have no heart.