What do other candidates think about the Freedom Dividend (UBI)?

Listen to him talk about the future of robotics and put it together.

the sand about the consequences. I applaud Yang for starting a conversation and debate about one of the consequences of the age of Robotics and AI that we are hurtling toward.

But I am really glad that Yang has raised the issue, because robotics and AI are going to force it on us soon. We need to start talking about it and debating the best way to do it.

Their apparent calculation is that they then wouldn't have to pay their drivers as much. . .

Sorry, no link - I did read this in a mainstream-media-type publication, though.

Personally, I think it's a flaky idea.

Clear bribery of voters, completely lack of sense.

But then, Yang also trashed the teachers union and no one here said anything.

There are too many other pressing problems that require massive amounts of money to solve. Yang has too much of a libertarian streak. It appeals to people, because government has been purposefully made dysfunctional. We need to make it functional. But that may prove too difficult. For instance, the US Senate shouldn't even exist, but getting rid of it is even less likely than getting rid of the electoral college.

Most other candidates recognize that it’s a fringe policy with no proof of success that has never been scaled up to a national level.

she would have found a less "Republican" name for it. "Freedom Dividend," my ass. No to Patriot anything either.

Seriously, Hillary and her team seriously considered running on a UBI, but with so many crying needs for Democrats to get to she said they couldn't "make the numbers work" for 2016. But expected to in future.

If it was a problem 2016, just imagine for 2021 after the Republicans continuing the transfer of our national wealth into the pockets of a few and deliberately driving us deep, deep, deep in debt. Their intention has always been to get rid of Social Security, Medicare, and all the rest, by whatever means available, including bankrupting them.

When checking the graph below for this century, remember that the Republican controlled congress controls the budget and spending. Republican administrations have been deliberately running the nation into the ground before transitions to Democratic administrations for decades now, SOP, but nothing like this period.

Not saying a UBI couldn't be great for redistributing income and stimulating the economy in general, and can't be done, but this forum spends money we aren't going to have in 2021. Just battling global warming properly would demand more than we have.

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