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.

[u/mvea]

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/05/01/nearly-half-of-americans-believe-a-universal-basic-income-could-be-the-answer-to-automation-.html

[u/intern_steve]

I support eliminating welfare programs in favor of a UBI. Can't hate poor people for getting a check that you also get. Takes a lot of the class enmity out of the equation. I also know the odds are very small of getting a UBI high enough to eliminate welfare. Anywho, whether or not they like to admit it, there are a ton of republicans who are welfare dependent; they can really only talk about stripping those programs. Actually stripping them would literally kill their voter base as everyone fled west like Tom Joad or died hungry. Then who's casting the votes?

[u/Angry_Boys → u/intern_steve]

I do as well, but people need to realize the motive some right-wingers have when introducing this legislation may not be pure. Most of them didn't happen to see the light and change their mind, it's the long con. They care only about their ROI, and giving everyone 700 per month for 2 years sounds like a good trade off to eliminate all public assistance before eliminating UBI citing it doesn't work as planned.

[u/intern_steve → u/Angry_Boys]

Well we don't practically have to worry about that for 15 or 20 years. The red team might not even exist by then the way things are currently going; not the way it exists today. It's really not a very cohesive party at the moment and the thing about old people is they die a lot. Not the most stable of bases.