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    I see Amazon is working on grocery stores that have no employees as well. Whatever you take just automatically gets billed to your account.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Irving View Post
    Does it matter if there is guaranteed basic income if you only have one or two employees in your restaurant?
    The scheme is bigger than employees/businesses, I would recommend folks read up on it.

    It's a ploy to get the Federal government to distribute an equal amount of money to folks who don't have that in income. In other words, it rewards people who chose not to work on the backs of those who do by equalizing outcomes.

    The amounts I've seen floated around are anywhere from $18,000 to $30,000. The moral argument is that everyone should have the same basic quality of life no matter their level of participation in the economy.

    With available jobs, that's a moral hazard. With robots taking those jobs because of Lib policies, I don't know.

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    Quote Originally Posted by cfortune View Post
    I see Amazon is working on grocery stores that have no employees as well. Whatever you take just automatically gets billed to your account.
    We'll eventually get to the point of chips, or something of the sorts, installed in our body to track all finances. Things will just scan as you walk out like they are trying. As someone else mentioned, get rid of cash and you can control everything. You can sell the idea on everything being secure, it'll kill the black market, etc.

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    The communist path to utopia, just that some will always be more equal than others because of a monopoly on government violence. Fairness across the board ... for some anyway, just not you.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dave_L View Post
    We'll eventually get to the point of chips, or something of the sorts, installed in our body to track all finances. Things will just scan as you walk out like they are trying. As someone else mentioned, get rid of cash and you can control everything. You can sell the idea on everything being secure, it'll kill the black market, etc.
    I once heard a congressman say by eliminating cash we can eliminate the illicit economy in America. Heard this like almost 40 years ago.
    "If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking."
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    "A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both."
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    "Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth."
    John F. Kennedy

    ?A motorcycle is a bicycle with a pandemonium attachment, and is designed for the special use of mechanical geniuses, daredevils and lunatics.?
    George Fitch. c 1916.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Skip View Post
    The scheme is bigger than employees/businesses, I would recommend folks read up on it.

    It's a ploy to get the Federal government to distribute an equal amount of money to folks who don't have that in income. In other words, it rewards people who chose not to work on the backs of those who do by equalizing outcomes.

    The amounts I've seen floated around are anywhere from $18,000 to $30,000. The moral argument is that everyone should have the same basic quality of life no matter their level of participation in the economy.

    With available jobs, that's a moral hazard. With robots taking those jobs because of Lib policies, I don't know.
    I know, I was partly being facetious.

    Quote Originally Posted by Dave_L View Post
    We'll eventually get to the point of chips, or something of the sorts, installed in our body to track all finances. Things will just scan as you walk out like they are trying. As someone else mentioned, get rid of cash and you can control everything. You can sell the idea on everything being secure, it'll kill the black market, etc.
    There is a country going through this right now, I forget which. It has eliminated a lower currency from circulation. It'd be like if the US decided to eliminate the $1.00 bill from circulation.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Skip View Post
    The scheme is bigger than employees/businesses, I would recommend folks read up on it.

    It's a ploy to get the Federal government to distribute an equal amount of money to folks who don't have that in income. In other words, it rewards people who chose not to work on the backs of those who do by equalizing outcomes.

    The amounts I've seen floated around are anywhere from $18,000 to $30,000. The moral argument is that everyone should have the same basic quality of life no matter their level of participation in the economy.

    With available jobs, that's a moral hazard. With robots taking those jobs because of Lib policies, I don't know.

    Not just liberal policies that affect job markets. The free market itself has just as much impact by removing jobs. There are plenty of news stories about companies firing thousands of employees so that they can make Wall Street expectations and not result in their stock price going down. Don't think for a second that corporations want H1B visas to go away or be reduced. Or that they aren't looking forward to the next technological advance that will reduce staffing requirements, as long as it doesn't phase out the CEO or other officers.

    Supply and demand will likely bite this country in the ass eventually as our population grows and jobs become more and more scarce. And from what I've seen here and other places online, half the country would rather dick punch an unemployed person than help them out.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dave_L View Post
    We'll eventually get to the point of chips, or something of the sorts, installed in our body to track all finances. Things will just scan as you walk out like they are trying. As someone else mentioned, get rid of cash and you can control everything. You can sell the idea on everything being secure, it'll kill the black market, etc.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Gman View Post
    Yup, Ive seen that movie. Pretty crazy.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Great-Kazoo View Post
    SHALL WE PLAY A GAME
    Interesting game, the only winning move is not to play..
    ΜΟΛΩΝ ΛΑΒΕ, we are the III%, CIP2, and some other catchphrase meant to aggravate progreSSives who are hell bent on taking rights away...

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