“wouldn’t you rather earn something than have it just handed to you?”
Yeah when it comes to actual awards and fancy goods, but when it comes to basic needs, basic human decency, and accomodations, those things should always be handed to people. No one should have to “earn” those things.Value people as people, not base it on how much they produce.
yeah but that creates a severe dependency that could be exploited easily, and creates a slippery slope @musical-clarity
Actually studies show that people who live in places with universal income (who are given money with no strings attached just for being citizens) do far better work than those who don’t and are more enthusiastic to do work.
This is because they still want nice things and will work for those but the part of their energy that was devoted to worrying about if they have enough money to pay the rent and bills this month is now freed up to do other things.
Some people will always be lazy and take advantage of the system, but they are always a tiny percentage and it seems ridiculous to me to punish the majority and severly hamstring their abilities just because a handful of people will simply live of basic income rather than work.
It’s been tested a couple times. In Canada, in some European countries, and the results are always the same.
There are two groups of people who show a statistically significant (Greater than one half of one percent, or 1 in 200) increase in Not Working and living off the guaranteed income. Parents of Children under school age, and full time students.
Among ALL other groups, employment actually INCREASED. Why? Because guaranteed minimum income means that homeless people can get at least a basic low end apartment. It’s hard if not impossible to get an above board job without a permanent fixed address. Also more people were able to have and maintain a BANK ACCOUNT. It is often hard to get a decent job without an account that can accept Direct Deposit for paychecks.
Also, lost work time due to illness and injury decreased across the board. It turns out if people are getting a decent amount of money each month they can A> afford to eat better, and B> obtain decent medical attention both preventative and emergency. Crazy right?
So why hasn’t it caught on?
Because it doesn’t directly benefit the people in power, and it increases THEIR PERSONAL taxes, their CORPORATE TAXES, and thus decreases their PERSONAL INCOME.
So, because Jeff Bezos and Alan Greenspan might fall from making 100 billion dollars a year to making 99.8 billion dollars a year, it’s a hard NO and we can all fucking die..
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oh wow i never knew! i’ll block them immediately and tell everyone! thanks op!
This character in this painting is simultaneously beautiful and menacing, but if I saw them in a social setting I might try to talk to them. That is unless their only way if communication was via high pitched bloodbourne style beast screams and the urge to either murder me, consume me, or assimilate me into their face.
i miss being able to enjoy books. i miss reading every day. i hate being depressed
when i was in 7th grade i once read 15 books in one month… id like to know why depression happened to me specifically
I USED TO LIKE
Inhale books
I read so many
Now it takes me like a year to read 1
I also think it has a lot to do with school. It just sucks ALL the want to read ANYTHING out of me because they regulate so strictly what you have to read and how you have to analyze it and like dude I just wanna read about some orphans being clever and getting through their shit time can we not?
I like to imagine that Hussie writes the first parts of the answers and Viz Media is the elaborated part
Q: What is Homestuck?
Hussie: It’s a webcomic
Viz: Oh my fu cking god andrew were trying to market something her e move over
If you look at it that way, it truly does sound like a fight for dominance between Hussie being a cryptic cryptid who just gives the bare minimum, which is basically all you gotta know when you start reading it, and Viz trying to sell this story on a professional level.
The only thing we know about hussie is that hes a virgo and we dont even know if thats accurate.
