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Cake day: August 19th, 2023

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  • I support it. It’s an insanely expensive policy though and should be implemented carefully and be based on income. An example would be:

    • No income $1000 a month
    • Min wage $500 a month

    Combined with better tax policies that don’t tax poor people. Health, education and other basic services should be almost free while having a strong social housing programme.

    This way nobody gets priced out of living and there’s still plenty of incentive to get a job while having some funds to invest in hygiene and clothing to land the job.

    This amount and threshold should be increased in the future.

    I really support UBI since you can better model the demand curve with externalities instead of making things free while having it accessible to poor people. Free school might be too low of a cost when calculating benefits to the individual and society so giving people money to afford a heavily subsidised cost would allow for more accurate economics.







  • That’d still be a bargain. Many unions in Iceland pay 75% of psychological help, glasses and exercise subscriptions by doing some collective bargaining magic. They also provide “time shares” type of vacation bungalows and more.

    All on top of higher salaries, better working hours and working conditions and will provide legal assistance in case of wage theft which my sister had to use one time.

    Basically a quality of life upgrade that pays you money even though it may not say so on the pay slip.