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If I lived in some rural area of the deep South I would be happy as a clam with 300 bucks a week..... When you can rent a whole house for 400 bucks a month it makes sense .
If I lived in some rural area of the deep South I would be happy as a clam with 300 bucks a week..... When you can rent a whole house for 400 bucks a month it makes sense .
You can rent a nice 3 br house here in Missouri for $500. With good credit, you can buy one for $400 a month. Of course, average wage is about $9 an hour.
Well, gimme the $1100/month for a few years and call it an experiment.
$1100 is not actually that much. In some places, it's basically nothing. I could survive on that (roughly a yearly income of 13000) in Alabama or Iowa, but try doing that in New York. That's a few months rent when you factor in the cost of everything else.
For what it's worth, I describe myself as a progressive, which for clarity, means I believe in supporting policy that reforms society for the better. I absolutely believe a universal basic income is an inevitability. It does not mean I think we should rush into it. All things have their time.
As for why you should amount to something, is there any motivation that people have that isn't purely monetary? Money is a wonderful incentive, but many people do things they enjoy to make money. Creative fields in general, which are not necessarily the best paid and often the least secure career paths, do their work because the enjoy it. The idea of a basic income is that people could have their base needs met with the basic income and then enrich their lives with craft or family. Start a brewery or write a novel to afford you iPhone and use your publicly received income to get food and shelter. That's the idea.
And again, to be clear, that's my vision for the future, not the present.
You can rent a nice 3 br house here in Missouri for $500. With good credit, you can buy one for $400 a month. Of course, average wage is about $9 an hour.
I have trouble believing that. I have a friend who rents a decent 3 bedroom in Texas, an inexpensive part of Texas, and even there, the neighborhood is pretty crappy to be only $500/month. And the LL doesn't do pest control, the fence is falling down.
It's a nice chunk of change to be given, but it's not giving you much of a life.
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