• Crisps@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    Take 1 trillion dollars from the billionaires in total, now distribute 1K to each person each month? Sounds great but you run out of money in only 3 months. Then what?

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      10 months ago

      Sounds great but you run out of money in only 3 months. Then what?

      We won’t because billonairs don’t hold the knowledge to run factories, they just monopolize infrastructure and collect a toll. We won’t run out of money because the production is still there.

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        9 months ago

        Then maybe our source of money should be that production, and not the personal wealth of billionaires?

        Like, if you make a car that runs on diesel, and there’s a gallon of diesel in the world, you’ve made a car with 1 gallon of fuel.

        If you make UBI that runs on the contents of billionaires’ bank accounts, and there’s three months’ worth of money in those bank accounts, you’ve made UBI that works for three months.