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   Sexy Moon (moon@shitposter.club)'s status on Sunday, 07-Jan-2024 22:17:02 JST Sexy Moon

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   @chris @radiojammor japan has private health insurance
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     @chris And yet I constantly hear Americans complain about issues that a UBI would solve.
     I often come across this inflation argument, but it is a logical fallacy based on right wing propaganda, from people who see how UBI would benefit society. Trials of UBI show negligible inflation. Everyone gets it and spends it or invests it. There is no leftover disposable income for the 'super secret cabal that controls everything' to raise prices on. So inflation doesn't happen as you might think.

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     I would always rather spend tax dollars on UBI, health insurance, child care, pre-K-Post Doc education, and dole, but we might need to kill that $800 billion defense budget and the NATO thing and the global adventurism and I'm all over that. Most of what I say, generally, is sarcastic nihilism.

     I like to always say: Europe and Japan have their "free" government health insurance, child care, pre-K-Post Doc education, and dole because America loves paying world military tabs.

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     Chris ABRAHAM (chris@abraham.su)'s status on Sunday, 07-Jan-2024 22:17:09 JST Chris ABRAHAM

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     America has an extremely generous needs based social system. We don't get nearly enough credit for it considering the population. Needs based is better than UBI because, I believe, that, like we've seen with interest, a UBI would just adjust the price to take into consideration the new economic floor. It would reset pricing accordingly, IMHO, unless there were laws against doing that under the auspices of "gauging" but people are extremely creative. You could move to rural Vietnam.

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     Radio Jammor (radiojammor@mastodon.scot)'s status on Sunday, 07-Jan-2024 22:17:10 JST Radio Jammor

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     @chris Some people can't swim. Do they just drown? Many moons ago (it just seems like it) I queried your stance on UBI. I am afraid that I don't think I can discuss this with you because you are so immersed into your American conservative capitalist system, you cannot see beyond it, and that you may have done well out of it, but others never could. I'm bowing out.

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     Chris ABRAHAM (chris@abraham.su)'s status on Sunday, 07-Jan-2024 22:17:12 JST Chris ABRAHAM

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     @VonBora @radiojammor @white_male I never lost a job because I am a swimmer. Because to sink is not acceptable.

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     VonBora (vonbora@nationalist.social)'s status on Sunday, 07-Jan-2024 22:17:14 JST VonBora

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     Did you lose your job because of the American Jobs Act then?
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     Chris ABRAHAM (chris@abraham.su)'s status on Sunday, 07-Jan-2024 22:17:16 JST Chris ABRAHAM

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     @VonBora @radiojammor @white_male coddling is constituted by having loads of government protections for your job so that it's painful to fire you without cause. That's what Bubba did: he dumped all the Govvie jobs and replaced them, in DC, with mostly private contractors. Good times!

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     VonBora (vonbora@nationalist.social)'s status on Sunday, 07-Jan-2024 22:17:17 JST VonBora

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     What, uh, constitutes coddling? Not being on the front lines being shot at by enemies, domestic or foreign?
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     Chris ABRAHAM (chris@abraham.su)'s status on Sunday, 07-Jan-2024 22:17:19 JST Chris ABRAHAM

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     @white_male @radiojammor I live in DC in the 80s and 90s: there were only "sink or swim" jobs in the DC area (the DMV) for high end, high-IQ jobs in the Nation's Capital. In tech, PR, entrepreneurship, government private consulting, etc: sink or swim, baby! No coddling for me in my 20s and 30s, bitches!

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     white_male (white_male@poa.st)'s status on Sunday, 07-Jan-2024 22:17:20 JST white_male

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     @chris @radiojammor Part and parcel of what you've become?
     Were you like that in your 30's?
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     white_male (white_male@poa.st)'s status on Sunday, 07-Jan-2024 22:17:21 JST white_male

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     @radiojammor @chris Principled freedoms are only dear to half of those, the rest are neurotically despotic.
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     Chris ABRAHAM (chris@abraham.su)'s status on Sunday, 07-Jan-2024 22:17:21 JST Chris ABRAHAM

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     @white_male @radiojammor I am neurologically despotic.

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     Radio Jammor (radiojammor@mastodon.scot)'s status on Sunday, 07-Jan-2024 22:17:22 JST Radio Jammor

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     @chris I'm not an American, but I thought you were all "government of the people, by the people, for the people". Isn't taking care of the people what Gov is for? Perhaps 'old' Americans have lost sight of that.
     What takes care of people better than giving them enough money to live on? Cut the bureaucracy of other welfare and enable people to learn, to invest in their education, training, business ideas, or effectively be paid to look after family and home, like many women do now, but unpaid.

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     Chris ABRAHAM (chris@abraham.su)'s status on Sunday, 07-Jan-2024 22:17:24 JST Chris ABRAHAM

     I feel like modern Americans surely and newly put all their eggs in the basket of the government should take care of them. That's like saying that the Metro or the Bus line should take care of me. Makes no sense to me at all. #ubi

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