From my experience there are no greater supporters of capitalism than those who have personally experienced communism.

How many slaves did your family own before Castro chased you out?

ok gusano

A lot of people are struggling out there. We are suffering and don't know where our next meal is coming from. A UBI would go a long way to help all of us out. It would mean we could pay all our bills and have food on the table. Why is Dave against us having all of that?

@@costco_pizza not how it works.

@@R2D2677: As a former rank-and-file government employee myself, I can attest to the outlandish waste of government resources. I would not hesitate to take an axe to federal programs.

UBI is government spending.

10% for the big guy

If you aren't a billionaire by now, Ramsey would consider you a failure. 🤣

​@PrimericanIdol thats dumb lol. Building wealth is a long term play.

​@@crashtestdummy1972 I'm joking. And making fun of Ramsey's whacked out rants.

@@PrimericanIdol oh lol! I love Ramsey but sometimes he does a little wild in his rants

@@crashtestdummy1972 Oh. Wanna see WILD? Go listen to Dan Peña.

Dave is describing the current welfare system, not UBI. UBI is paying people that work as well. The current system rewards those who don’t work and punishes those that work and pay taxes. If you work over a certain amount you get nothing, and those that get welfare often get more than those that do work.

That's a stupid quote. UBI doesn't pay for your whole life needs and wants. Sure, some will not work. But others will want to enjoy life and so they'll find work so they can have money to have fun or improve their lives. On the current welfare system all of that is impossible as anyone 8n that system is held down with their face in the dirt with no hope if escape. You are stupid and so is Dave.

@@joshuaevans6065 but it certainly won't incentivize anyone to work

I don’t know but if I received a 1K a month UBI that wouldn’t stop me from working because i wouldn’t be able to live off of 1K a month.

@@joshuaevans6065 You're on point on there. UBI is paying basically everyone something. But my argument against is it causes inflation! Everyone working minimum wage making $15/hr plus everyone on UBI making say $2000/mo. Now that minimum wage guy is making $4600/mo. But the guy on UBI is still only making $2000/mo. There's either going to be a race to the bottom on paid work (at least within minimum wage, as positions transition there) or there'll still be no work. You'll create not just towns and cities with high unemployment but everyone everywhere, entire generations without work since they lack skills or experiences. Education doesn't replace learned skill or experience either, otherwise you'd hire a recent Harvard MBA grad as the next CEO of a beer company.

The bible also said to drag your disobedient child outside the city and murder him. The is the book of the devil. Not a book of wisdom.

Same difference.

Gawd bless Murica 🤓🖕

Not necessarily

The government can print money but not goods. So when everyone uses that money to buy the same amount of goods you run out of goods and whatever is remaining costs much more. It's not the greedy landlords bidding up the prices it's the 10 people bidding for the same house.

Why does anyone trust the government to do anything useful? They're self serving and corrupt. All the money would funnel into family and fraud.

@@commonabond Dave just doesn't have a heart. A lot of people are struggling out there. We are suffering and don't know where our next meal is coming from. A UBI would go a long way to help all of us out. It would mean we could pay all our bills and have food on the table. Why is Dave against that?

@@costco_pizza Did you not listen to his response, he clearly explained his position which is a correct take on it.

Your point is very valid most of the "incentive" crap is BS people with UBI often become more social economicly mobile.

that's right guys. if you ever accept unemployment, you'll end up in a nursing home and unable to walk!

For every deadbeat welfare/unemployment story, I can find multiple success stories (or stories where the recipients benefited from the welfare). Unlike Dave's opinion, the welfare system actually works. It's literally (literally) taught in the Bible by God, Himself, upon His people. The problem with those who oppose the welfare system are thus: 1) They mistake politics/social policy for religion (ie pure, unadulterated capitalism is heaven sent, and ANY form of socialism is of the devil) 2) They fear the few who will misuse the blessing and game the system more than they value the many who will benefit from it. Having said all that, this clip went from universal income to general welfare for some insane reason, and I would separate the two. Welfare should be used to provide services to the poor and needy. Universal income is just an injection of money into the economy to rebalance the system, and I'm with Dave et al on this one: it won't work. If you lack income, then do all that you can by the grace of God to work another job or find a better job.

A lot of people get paid without work, whether it’s government, welfare, benefits, or inheritance or other lottery winnings. And you could even say that about Dave’s kids. But it’s still a bad idea to have UBI for other reasons.

@@nottelling4828Government Forced Welfare distributed by a central government cannot be found in or endorsed by the Bible.

This has nothing to do with the checks. It has more to do with his lazy lifestyle

We need Judge Judy to head up that system that is reworked so it works,. If you've watched even some of her shows, you know she knows a high percentage of people on disability could do a different job.

@@beckypetersen2680 hah, she calls it like she sees it!

In a lot of cases, those programs don't work because of work and income requirements. Once you get a job that pays enough, and generally it's not even a lot, the aid of those programs gets cut off. Because of that, people lose their benefits immediately and they get stuck in a cycle of poverty. Honestly, work requirements need to be scaled back and reformed to allow an overlap of time between getting a job and the assistance cutting off. It could be three to six months of phasing out the assistance, but that would allow people the chance to at least build up an emergency fund and maybe even a deposit for an apartment to get out of Section 8. As it is now, the system encourages people not to try earning more because the loss of benefits can be too catastrophic when they get cut off immediately. Similarly, a person can lose Medicaid if they have only $2000 in a savings account. That was figure set a long time ago and never got adjusted for inflation. It should definitely be raised to give the incentive for people to save more so they can eventually move beyond the need for assistance.

@@markdohrmann5983 agreed. We need to foster a system that can get people back on their feet and working, without discouraging productive outcomes.

@@beckypetersen2680 Or a version of Judge Judy that is a generation younger. She is the same age as Biden.

He's comparing apples to oranges. The GDP of greater Tokyo is more than Siberia + Greenland + Kazakhstan + Mongolia + Sudan + Democratic Republic of the Congo lol.

The US also has more revenue because of their GDP to afford a UBI.

also its not true

Gawd bless Texass 🤓🖕

Central bankers seem to have no qualms about printing up trillions of dollars every year out of thin air.

Good point. Reduce overhead even more: stop taxing people making less than 36k

Except it wouldn’t require any more money to be printed. You implement a value added tax (which is more fair than the income tax system currently in place.)

@@joshuaevans6065 in addition to sales taxes and income taxes or as a replacement? Either way, this results in goods/services being priced higher to account for the taxes.

Yeah this is only true if you don't recoop the ubi in taxes. I think most people would end up with a wash, but a wash with a much less scary floor, and one without incredibly annoying means testing. I think a ubi would be better than a bureaucratic nightmare of a welfare state.

No country it’s perfect, just that this it’s the least bad

@@Erick10zz I just wanted to say a lot of people are struggling out there. We are suffering and don't know where our next meal is coming from. A UBI would go a long way to help all of us out. It would mean we could pay all our bills and have food on the table. Why is Dave against us having all of that?

@@costco_pizza because ubi hasn’t worked, move to cuba where im from and live there for a week only, check it out

​@@costco_pizzabrother I'm sorry to hear you're not doing well but let me also say that you need to hear the hard truth... There is so much money out there, if you're not where you want to be it's because the effort isn't there or focused in the right direction. Not saying you don't work hard, don't get me wrong. Unfortunately tho if working hard was enough to be rich, then roofers and oil riggers would be the richest people in the country 😂 you need to understand how money works and get started on the right path. In 10 years you could be on top of the world I'd guarantee it

​@@costco_pizzawe aren't against you having stuff.. we feel you're better than "a basic life" getting govt dribbles and freebies just enough to keep people in 10 story apartments with just enough money to barely live. Eating fake meat and bugs. Keeping our thermostats at 78 and taking the bus. While politicians have mansions and good food. 10 car motorcades and millions of dollars. Don't think the govt just wants to help you. The establishment we are fighting wants to keep you in line, passive and complacent. You're better than that and if I can do it you can do it you just need to decide enough is enough and go get it brother

Unless he takes out a PPP loan, or gets another government subsidy, then he gets to eat.

Said the neanderthal

That quote came from the same book that said if your child is disobedient you must drag him outside the city and murder him. Idk if I'd trust that kind of wisdom

@@andread9899 Neanderthal?

@@andread9899 actually PDS just did a special where they pretty much admitted that neanderthals were just ugly humans

Well said. Ramsey are in denial that all the jobs will be gone!

you're in denial that AI will improve anything. well unless you like genocide of blacks.

​@@cianlernihan6417no, once jobs are all automated THEN we can discuss something like that but until then we need people to work. The avg construction worker is 60. We are soon to be running into a serious problem

It's easy.. don't create AI. This is such a stupid trend

NO. He is VILE. My opinion

@@mba2ceoat leat he knows what he is talking about, my opinion.

@@unfairsanic5089 bro he thinks Sweden is socialist. He definitely doesn't know what he's talking about lmao

He knows nothing He scammed his many followers with Time Share Exit Team. He has never studied history either He calls am impoverished are the "ghetto" Clearly he has never studied history

​@@mba2ceohe is a horrible person and a phony Like a TV Preacher

Speak for yourself 🤓🖕

Yep. They want wage slaves.

Come on, man, with UBI people can sit at home and do drugs all day. Why do you gotta ruin the fun?

@@jeffsmith9420 Comparing working for an hourly wage to slavery is pretty belittling to people that were actually enslaved.

@@inspectorjavert5563 Oh...... Seriously trying to pull that type of nonsense is complete BS. Move along troll.

@@inspectorjavert5563 Yea. You know giving people a basic income does not automatically turn capitalism into communism. That's a false equivalence. I have received a Social Security Disability check for almost my whole adult life, but I didn't just take that check and sit on my butt as these guys seem to believe all people will do if they get UBI. Will some people do that? Yes, but many will also work and have a side hustle, as I did and will achieve financial independence regardless. I no longer depend on my Social Security check for my survival. I have an investment account and several side hustles as well. Lazy and ignorant are not necessarily a permanent state and discipline and diligent pursuit of a goal is in no way diminished by a dependable minimum income.

Absolutely

It’s pretty clear what it is

@@freeindeed8416 then why was most of what was said in this video wrong?

@@bChipps What was said in this video isn't wrong.

@@freeindeed8416I dont know what is it! What is Universal Basic Income? Explained! Cause I know is giving “free” money to everybody I guess for what reason and what would be the point of doing it?

Why is your life all about others having control over you? You sound like a small child.

Are 3% of their deaths assisted suicide like it is in Canada. You put the government in charge, and they will start killing people they view as a burden.

This is correct. The same is true for Denmark, Canada, and some of the other places that are accused of that. None of these nations have a centrally controlled economy (the USSR had this and we know what happened there). That would involve price controls and the control of supply and demand. These countries are very capitalist with large social safety nets.

Sweden doesn’t even have a minimum wage. They also had no lockdown during the pandemic. In some ways they’re more free market than we are.

Also the GDP of Sweden is $712b while the Dallas metro is $600b. I don't know where he gets his facts.

@@front331 he probably got his facts from 10 years ago, but since Sweden is a capitalist country, their economy has grown

Money is at the job if you are able bodied

And that's the problem. Proponents of UBI always operate under the assumption that everyone is motivated for more, and that UBI will unleash people to explore creative and artistic ways of creating value if their basic needs are provided for. That may be true for some, but many people will just suckle at the teat and do nothing.

​@@channell11who cares tho? You ever heard of worrying about yourself? Yeah some people are either going to be bad with money or never want to apply themselves, what's it to you?

@cloudbloodmusic what do you mean "what's it to you?" Maybe some of us don't want to pay higher taxes so said person can live for free? The government isn't going to just print this money. We pay it.

@@blue-wb8yn do you even know what taxes would be paying for UBI? (Andrew Yang's proposal I'm talking about)

​@@cloudbloodmusic It is important to me, because I am stuck funding a large portion of it. It doesn't matter to the bottom 50% because they pay so little tax anyway. When you pay 40k in income tax, after all deductions, and atleast another 40k in sales and hidden taxes, it matters.

Speak for yourself 🤓🖕

My vote is not for sale 🤓🖕

I know plenty of people who cannot succeed, in terms of having gainful employment , even with herculean efforts on their parts. Employments that at least allow them some benefits like dental and health insurance. Sure many could find work, then they would lose all their health benefit, which in their state of health and the jobs they are able to work, could not afford.

@@Benjamin-to2zq I understand where you're coming from. I wish things could be their best all the time and people would have a chance to be successful.

@@marybaker8061 I wish a world where success doesn´t define your health outcome, or get´s combined with your character Rich= Good and Smart Poor = Lazy and Stupid We made a world where peoples lives depend on chance, when we can make a world where this chance is a right.

@@Michael-vz9xk okay.

john stossel did a segment about how the pilgrims tried socialism and they were almost wiped out bcs of how the lazy were incentivized to be lazier and it affected everyone around them. they decided to switch to everyone owning their own land and harvests and they started prospering

It's important to remember also that these farmers were not necessarily bad or lazy. It's human nature to do the things that you view as the most important. If all the sudden your income needs are satisfied then your job is going to seem less important than your family or cleaning your house or going on vacation or making sure you're taken care of your health. Those things are great but they do not help to benefit society if you were a farmer and now you're not. If you had to plant in order to get money you better believe those farmers are going to go plant. The reason communism always fails always has and always will is because it makes assumptions about humans that are dramatically false. It assumes that every single person regardless of anything is going to work hard just like they do when they have incentives. This Ubi study will definitely be a massive failure but might not be presented as a massive failure. It probably will be presented as a significant win. I can think of half a dozen ways right off the bat that it could be manipulated to the extent that the outcome would be worthless. Here's a couple for starters. You tell people that this is a Ubi study so they should make sure they still work hard. You give it to people who you know we're going to work hard regardless. You don't track bad behavior so the study only has positive outcomes possible. One of the positive outcomes of the study is people had more income which is not an actual outcome but could still be touted as such. Regardless of how the money is spent they could say that the money went to the community. They could also neglect to look at the person's long-term financial situation. Is this person already on an upward trend of self-improvement or not? Would this Ubi have long-term impacts on whether or not this person would go back to school? No doubt they will at least say that the Ubi study was at least a partial success and they will suggest that it should continue.

@@josephwheeler1speak for yourself 🤓🖕

Civically, I owe no one a chance to enjoy life more. If they want out of the trap, they need to learn to break it. If they don't, the consequences(up to and including death) rest fully on their shoulders. On top of that, any UBI would be fully consumed by inflation.

@@diggernash1 Nobody's asking you to do anything, or contribute anything. What's more, my version of UBI would also have you receiving it along with folks who need it. The "UBI will cause inflation" argument has long since been debunked. The government printed mountains of cash during the 2008 economic crisis, and later studies showed it didn't have anything to do with rising inflation.

@@ASimoneau As a top 10% income earner, who spends approximately 50k a year on material purchases beyond necessities, will my tax burden increase, decrease, or remain the same? What portions of the economy consumed the injections made following the 2008 meltdown? Who absorbed the losses prior to those injections? If you give every individual a payment, I assure you that people similar to myself will be working to take every penny of that money and put it in our bank accounts. They will know everyone has a little more and will angle to get every penny of it.

@@diggernash1 A $1,000/mo UBI can be paid for without raising individual tax rates. How it affects your tax burden will depend on answers to questions we don't yet have. The injections to the economy started with the corporate bailouts, but eventually filtered their way through the economy. What you, personally, do with your UBI has virtually zero economic effect. If you want to bank it, that's your choice. It will eventually be spent.

@@ASimoneau I make a little over 200k total income, in a low cost of living area. Kids are grown, no debt, give about 10% to charity. I spend a chunk on luxury items. UBI would be funded by high income earners, whether directly or indirectly; it is where the money exists. Much of those injections were used to stabilize balance sheets as housing prices plummeted. The whole system should have been allowed to collapse. Those with cash could have collected up property at even better discounts. This is entirely different from immediate, direct payments to individuals. The majority will begin to spend it day one. Sharks will smell blood and make every effort to collect all of it.

The kind of job most people want is no job at all. Or something ridiculous like being a TikTok star.

If you wanna work the kind of job you want to do then you are consenting to the possibility of not making as much

In other words, its "free money". And we saw what happened to people who got free money during the pandemic. They spent it, and went into more debet. So, even though it's good intentions, it doesn't fix the problem.

That’s irrelevant. It’s a terrible idea all the way around.

We are debt free including the house. With UBI, we could quit working as it would pay for taxes and insurance on our four walls.

This is the bottom line. If UBI is not tied to income already and everyone gets it, well, the homeless by choice will still be homeless, and the hard working and wise, will probably invest it.

​@@beckypetersen2680the "homeless by choice" would at least be able to eat tho

@@beckypetersen2680 Most UBI is income tested. It guarantees a certain level of income. Not everyone gets a cheque in the mail.

@@cloudbloodmusic Not necessarily. For some homeless forgetting their situation is their first priority. How they choose to forget... well that comes in many forms.

@@davidbonatz1275 I'm saying they'd be able, not that they're 100% going to make good decisions with said money.

Gawd bless Murica 🤓🖕

We've got those now. Businesses get tax breaks to offer healthcare at subsidized rates to employees, which also creates an incentive to work a full-time job in order to get that coverage. Problem is, we also provide health care coverage to people that don't work.

@@channell11 it's crappy coverage, especially for regular working people. Those not working get better coverage. That's just crazy to me

yeah i didnt believe that at first either. I knew sweden was about half a trillion just didn't expect Dallas to be so large lol

Sweden's GDP in 2023 stands at $712b. Even if Dallas was larger, so what. Sweden is part of a union.

Sweden is irrelevant if were being honest, they don't innovate or lead the world in anything. They didn't even help allied forces during WW2

UBI payments would be entirely consumed by a rise in the cost of living.

Takes an sob to know an sob 🤓🖕

@@firstlast8258 gfy

No it does not. Prices will just go up. That's it.

@@untouchable360x why? Will prices "go up?" Why can't monies be allocated from foreign aid to domestic aid?

@@jhfaleafine1870 There's no such thing as a free lunch. Someone has to pay and whoever is paying will jack up the price for their services or goods. UBI will cost $4 trillion a year. Last I checked, the fed only brings in about 5 trillion in taxes and we are $32 trillion in debt. If you want the extra $1000 a month, go earn it and contribute to the economy. You can earn $1000 a month easily doing just uber eats.

@@untouchable360x prices always go up. Not an excuse to not try to help people

Not everyone can work 🤓🖕

It will definitely separate the haves from the have nots with more trapped in the system.

Why do we have one then?

​@@Bigbilly-ms9bnGreat question. If we can count 40 million votes from our phones for a tv show on a Friday, what do we need "representatives" for? We don't need government as much as an oversight committee to see the work gets done.

@@mattschmitt9924speak for yourself 🤓🖕

The reality is about 1% of Americans can think.

Getting (or receiving) total disability is challenging. My mother almost died of sepsis and is a brittle diabetic and even she couldn't get disability. What if you have a chronic condition that requires many doctor's visits. Name 1 employer that will allow you to take all the time off for follow-ups, tests, and procedures. If anything, it's just another excuse an employer can use to drop you like a sack of potatoes.

Don't you know inflation goes away if you just stop believing in it? 😊

Nope. The money is already printed. Inflation would only be caused by printing more money, which doesn’t need to happen. You implement a value added tax like the rest of the developed world already has in place.

@@joshuaevans6065 Not just the "developed" world. Cut it with that elitist terminology. In fact, the term "developing" is actually a far better compliment because it implies that your economy is on the up-and-up, and bound towards prosperity. The future is in the emerging economies, not in the decaying post-industrial "first world".

@@joshuaevans6065 It will cost $4 trillion dollars to run UBI. Last I checked, fed only takes in $5 trillion in taxes and got $32 trillion in debt. Money needs to be printed out of thing air for UBI. We had a test run printing money for COVID relief. Now we are in an inflationary mess.

Speak for yourself 🤓🖕

That's one part of capitalism a lot of people who claim to be 'capitalists' tend to forget. That and the part where Smith warned of any government policy that was backed by industry. Citizens United and political donations from corporations would leave Smith completely baffled.

I miss AO and Hogan. Chris Hogan and Dave were a great team. He was the only one that could share a stage with Dave equally. Dave takes the stage from everyone else.

It wouldn't help at all, because the cost of living would rise to consume every penny.

Walmart would just pay them less - if they could.

Yakov would say, "What a country!" :)

Um cost of living alone makes $1k/month impossible to live off of. It's literally just to prevent being completely broke.

They already do.

​@@cloudbloodmusicand then all rent prices rise by 1k for some reson 🤔

Rent control should be the first step.

@@FlutterSwag like they aren't constantly getting raised already

The issue is Americans are idiots, even the ones that others consider "smart"

Did you pay back those who were harmed by your taking of public assistance? Why did they owe you the opportunity to have a better life?

@@diggernash1 do you know how France even works?

@@cloudbloodmusic Would a high income earner and high spender, pay more or less tax in France? Not just individual taxes, but all taxes applied to products and corporations; that are ultimately rolled into the costs of goods. How would France treat my real-estate holdings? What taxes would be place on MY money(estate) upon my death?

@@diggernash1 what does that have to do with rich people being "harmed" because someone is on assistance?

Thanks for the laugh

>UBI makes no sense without price controls While we're at it, why not also do forced labor, and centrally planned industry? Frankly, all those rubes deciding what to do with their lives has always been a great impediment to my plans of greatness!

The point of UBI is to keep the government out of your personal choices. What your proposing is what democrats would love to implement. Full control over every citizen.

If you’re living on welfare, universal or not, the government should be firmly inserted into your daily life to make sure you’re doing everything right. It doesn’t do enough of that as is

That’s for sure. I’m curious how they stumbled on to this video. You’d think they would be off somewhere else to be offended.

@@brianmcg321 Probably some anime dorks posted to some subreddit or discord channel where they huff their own intellectual farts (and that's probably the most "wholesome" thing that goes on). I need a bingo card with their typical responses.

UBI isn't a form of Communism though. It is a simplification of the already existing welfare system. The idea is that instead of having 10 different welfare programs to administrate, you have 1 UBI program and abolish things like food stamps and welfare. This will net save the tax payer money in administrative fees, while being more effective than welfare was.

Ignorance. Communism is a moneyless and stateless society by definition. So in no way, shape or form, can be communism when the state hands out money. Makes zero sense.

@@mattbenz99 Until you have to work in the people's lithium mines to show your solidarity with the people's government to maintain your UBI as opposed to doing what you want to do. Whenever you take money from someone, you are setting yourself up for dependency. Boomer Dave gets it more than youngins thinking you can ride the tiger that bit the last guy who rode it and turned him into a human steak (I'll spare you the details on digestion).

That’s the point of UBI lol. Everyone gets it. And it’s not enough to sustain yourself alone. You need money to get a job. If you can’t afford a car or gas you can’t work. UBI is equality, not equity. In monopoly nobody starts off with nothing.

@@joshuaevans6065 In Monopoly every starts out with nothing but a couple hundred bucks.

People on welfare are forced not to work which is why they're all depressed and addicted to junk. UBI solves that problem by letting people choose. Those same people don't want your dirty charity benefits either. Yet you want to pat yourself on the back for giving to the needy. Scum of the earth.

@@joshuaevans6065 yeah but in monopoly the money comes out of nowhere. In the real world someone would have to pay for that UBI (aka us tax payers). Nothing is free.

you agree? You're a conservative now, if you agree with anything dave says, according to today's progressive liberals

The government can not be charitable. It redistributes confiscated money for political gain; some to individuals and some to corporations. I believe all charity should be handled privately. Giving will reflect the society and whom they deem needy.

"If a man does not work he does not eat."

@@hastycontemplation so are we saying that we should just let all those people die?? A UBI would go a long way to helping pay off bills and putting food on the table. Why is Dave against having those things?

It's a Bible verse study the bible on laziness. If a men don't work he don't eat. A lazy hand lead to poverty while working hand lead to wealth. Give a men a fish you feed him for the day. If you teach a men how to fish, he feed for a life time. Learn the difference between pure laziness verse working. .You help people that failed on hardtimes not pure laziness that depends on you like you're their mommy and daddy. As someone is permanent disable, you have people faking disabilities so they don't have to work. It make it extremely harder for us real disable (visible and invisible) to get help. Read book by Robert D. Lupton Toxic Charity: How Churches and Charities Hurt Those They Help, And How to Reverse It People think you're helping others when you're actually hurting people. The mass Majority of homelessness people don't want help because society keeps feeding them.

​@@costco_pizzayou'll be allowed $500 a month and a Obama food package, 2 times a month.

They would still be teaching nonetheless because what they do is fake work, and their _tribe_ has long been known to avoid manual labor.

If your argument against communism involves the use of money it is fundamentally flawed. There is no money under communism. That’s the point of the system. There is no minimum wage because there are no wages.

What? Who wants the minimum wage as a maximum anywhere? A very large portion of college professors could have made a lot more doing something else, though yeah, they do still make a lot more than minimum wage jobs.

@@His.Lordship If they could make more money, they would be going and doing so, but they aren't. Most of them can't do anything else. But they preach socialism and communism to their students while getting paid, in a capitalist system, handsomely.

That’s exactly drummermikemccraws point. capitalism would mean the professor makes the same as someone who did not have to get a degree so he may not even be a professor because there’s no incentive to pursue higher education

I was already married when at one point I worked four jobs in one week. Get out there and earn your living. I’m now self-employed, I’ve had a business for 12 years. Excuses. Excuses!

Good for you. I would rather not have a single parent not being able to see their kids or forcing anyone to have no life. If the government can spend billions on killing people around the world they can spend that money on feeding those at home.

@@Cesar-pq2cknot everyone can work 🤓🖕

Cause what u bust u bu.t people titans like Dave already has ...we get a slice 🍰😞 bro they have the whole cake.keep them poor they say

100%. If you study capitalistic systems, the entire structure turns into a financial pyramid where a very few at the top have mostly everything and the ones at the bottom gets the scraps of what’s left. It gets constantly harder to get your share. It’s very easy for guys like this to tell people how much money you can make by creating these goofy narratives, but he made his a long time ago and there ever smaller scraps left.

@@LuisLopez-nk7fj brother I am working my tail off! I’m tell you the American 🇺🇸 dream is a nightmare 😱

@@jasonmoquin very true table scraps then say let them eat cake 🎂

This is why many programs call in guaranteed income. As in you will be topped up to a certain level if you did not get there yourself.

@@MrWookie1981 true but I personally see that as introducing flaws into the system. Welfare and other relief programs is seen as a negative in the country due to them benefitting some but not all. Leading to a “well I didn’t get anything so neither should you” mindset.

@@bChippsTruth is in Canada we have a form of UBI for seniors that is called OAS. Every senior gets it but is clawed back based on income. I have heard of people trying to make less money to avoid the clawback but I have never heard people complaining about some people getting it but not others. Sounds like a societal flaw you have there more than social program flaw.

It could result in greater efficiency by eliminating a whole host of government departments and programs, many with redundant and overlapping functions. But when have you known the government to willingly shrink in size and scope? And even in that case, we'd have to accept that if someone were to be stupid with their money and get in a bind, that we wouldn't help them because we've eliminated all the other social programs. But that's not going to happen, and the instant you relent the whole program is undermined and the incentive gone.

Keep up. It is actually Gen-Z you are complaining about.

A low social credit score must become a badge of honor for all persons of character.

Speak for yourself 🤓🖕

EXACTLY

It's less to do with wealth and more the fact that small, homogeneous, geographically concentrated populations with shared culture and goals are a lot more conducive to managing universal social welfare programs.

So, we divvy up Africa precisly into "small, homogeneous, geographically concentrated populations with shared culture and goals" - should we be expecting trips to the Moon on flying pyramids? Yes? Or are you honest?

It's a cumulative problem. Unemployment, stimulus, and monthly payments of the Child Tax Credit created significant disincentive for lower-skill people to get work since their labor value doesn't generate a lot of income. It demonstrated that for some people as long as their basic needs are met they have little ambition to go out and get more. A big issue that doesn't get talked about is dual-income households. In the case where the mother was working a lower-level job, it made a whole lot more sense to maybe take a slight cut in living standards and stay home with kids rather than continue working and dealing with daycare being closed every time some kid got a sniffle. A lot of people chose to do that.

​@@channell11notice how you didn't throw the PPP loans in there... Very obvious corps don't have the same responsibilities in your eyes.

How would you know?

Which boosts the economy

Agree. There will still be some roles that can't be replaced. Like police, nurses, construction workers to an extent. Do we force people to work those jobs while the rest of us get vacation

War is inevitable.

AI will also create tens of millions of NEW jobs that don't exist today that we currently have no concept of.

Sneakers evidently

Yeah I agree. Dave mentions the welfare we have for the poor but makes no mention on the bailouts we give to failing companies or the subsidies we give to profitable corporations (oil, big agro, etc). Why can’t the working and middle class get their handouts too?

@@MrMtanz we need fewer handouts not more

@@georgewagner7787 even to the oil and gas companies?

It might not have worked for certain reasons..... But you might know something I don't. My friends parents who grew up in Poland in the 70's and 80's said communism was not all bad so?

In most UBI scenarios the government tops you up to a certain level. If you make more than that level you get no cheque. But it also does not hurt you if you work some but not enough.

No proponents of UBI say it's going to replace working. Because it's not enough to live off of by itself. If anything it just gives a boost to what you already make.