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A while back there was a cash machine that had £20 notes in the £10 note dispenser. People queued and took out £10 successively until they'd hit their daily limit and the machine was empty.
I'm sure people interviewed for ITN would all trot out that line, as would the DM comments box. However, everyone would take it.
The bigger problem is when the UBI is only enough to survive and you can't get a job to supplement your wages to buy an iPhone, Dualit Toaster, go on holiday, etc.
hugo7
So, communism?
I jest, but not entirely.
I keep getting told that I think too much and I predict responses (both physical and verbal), and modify my behaviour based on my predicted response, rather than just talking to people and waiting for a response, so let me play out how I think UBI would go down.
-Here's free money because you've got no job opportunities any more
-I don't want free money, I want to work for a living
-There's no jobs you can do any more because you're really good at things that aren't done here any more
-but why can't we do those things
-because of so many reasons but mostly some companies got really big, priced out the competition, and fucked you and many other small and medium companies over
-I'm no scrounger
-people who get free money aren't scroungers
-but that's what we've been told for years
-do you want your money or not?