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wasupaloopa

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7. Henry Ford paid $5 a day because the jobs were so bad workers

Reply to yallerdawg (Reply #4)

Tue May 1, 2018, 12:45 PM

May 2018

would not stay on the job.

At $5 a day they would put up with the lousy working conditions. Also it was $5 a day as long as the company was profitable.

You need to get a realistic world view.

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Yang 2020. Let's put humanity first. It's time for Universal Basic Income. [View all] yallerdawg May 2018 OP

I have these questions about basic income. wasupaloopa May 2018 #1

"Rules of economics?" yallerdawg May 2018 #2

Thanks for the reply but that is not an answer wasupaloopa May 2018 #3

When a robot creates something of value... yallerdawg May 2018 #4

Henry Ford paid $5 a day because the jobs were so bad workers wasupaloopa May 2018 #7

Your world view may be realistic - in a capitalist system, of course. yallerdawg May 2018 #8

Good questions. PETRUS May 2018 #9

To me universal basic income does not wasupaloopa May 2018 #10

? PETRUS May 2018 #11

I would like to hear from an economist who teaches, to give me the model with a wasupaloopa May 2018 #12

You can believe whatever you want, of course. PETRUS May 2018 #13

I think I told you twice now. The money does not come from any type of productive effort on the wasupaloopa May 2018 #14

Take your fingers out of your ears. PETRUS May 2018 #15

Productive effort? Animal, Vegetable, or Mineral? fleabiscuit May 2018 #17

很好! geardaddy May 2018 #5

We have to recognize our own obsolesence! yallerdawg May 2018 #6

I agree with your reasoning, and have one concern. Music908 May 2018 #16

How about we start by taxing ALL forms of compensation as regular income? fleabiscuit May 2018 #18