Offered a few more elements in my bio. Thoughts, feeback, debate?
My stance on various issues:
Education: Free to PhD, tax paid
Abortion: Protected, tax paid, limited time-frame
Welfare: Yes, no one should starve
UBI: No, use welfare
Racism: is real
Guns: Shall not be infringed
LGBT+/minorities: Support
Pronouns: Will respect
Trump: Moron, evil
Biden: Senile, racist
Police: ACAB
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@freemo@qoto.org
I disagree with you on some of these points but I'll say that the way you presented them is interesting.
feel free to discuss/debate/share on any aspects youd like in more detail. They are there to spark conversation.
I have a flipped view of welfare and UBI, I think there should be a UBI and that welfare programs should be eliminated and their funding directed towards a UBI. Primarily because the administrative bloat of many disparate programs could be greatly reduced with a single program.
I'm not hard-set on any particular conception of a UBI, however I do like the concept of a negative income tax.
@kilroy_was_here Ahh ok.
Yea I disagree because in my years of helping people I have found that people who need the most help are hurt rather than helped by unconditional money. It is only when the money carries with it the restriction of the person actively gathering skills to get out of poverty it will harm people more than help.
Since the goal should be to help society and not cause harm, and not simply to be cheap and give away free stuff, I strongly oppose UBI. The extra costs of welfare is worth the reward of doing actual good.
That said welfare programs need to be significantly redesigned to live up to that ideal, they dont currently.
See, I think a UBI would help more people. Look at what happened during Covid where there was kind of a semi-UBI. Many people broke off and started their own businesses, started doing their own thing.
I want to see an explosion of local business rather than having all our eggs in one big corporate basket. We'd see some actual capitalism happening! Making it so people can try new ideas without going destitute would support this goal and we'd all be on a more solid economic footing.
Except thats not how it happens. Few people if any will start a business because of UBI. Even if they did it will have a high rate of going under. When people dont have to earn the money they usually neglect it and waste it.
Every company i helped fund thaat wasnt earned quickly failed.. i learned early on that that is the best way to destroy wealth, to give it to someone who didnt earn it.
Also lets keep in mind that there is an avenue for people to fund their ideas. It just requires their ideas be well thought out and can show a good case for it. Like there are whole investor networks a poor person can take a well developed business plan and get investment.
The thing is without that check people will just waste money on tons of nonsensical ideas. I cant tell you how many people ive seen come into lump sums of money by good fortune, sometimes millions, and they were bankrupt within the year.
> Most people do not know how to access those investor networks and would not know where to start.
If you can not be successful at raising money then you wont be successful running a business. Learning how to access those networks (its real easy with a little time on google or taking a class) is a good test to prove you are competent enough to run a business. Running a business is a lot harder than learning about investor networks.
@freemo @kilroy_was_here This reminds me of the operations that lend small amounts to women in Africa. It's often used to start micro businesses and usually paid back. Whereas giving large amounts of money to Africa just results in high living among the already corrupt.
Most people do not know how to access those investor networks and would not know where to start.