Universal basic income to be trialled

TheOracle said:
Hypothetical question....

Let's say everyone has had enough. What would the government do if everyone suddenly decided to stop working? Maybe for a few days every month, but on the same day. Literally the entire country went on strike?
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What can they do but hop on a plane to their 3rd residence and out wait you out.

Epstein Island would probably be at full capacity though unfortunately :eek:
 
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Mrwong said:
The cost of benefits specifically unemployment is nothing to this country, it is pretty much like losing 10p thats the value in economic terms.
However, they will highlight as it costing this country a fortune when it is peanuts in monetary term.
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It's my understand that is the cost of the benefit itself. Not all the wages of the DUP etc.
 
TheOracle said:
That's actually cheaper than a few weeks ago, I think it was £7 for the 200g jar

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A few weeks back, Sainsburys had an £8 200g jar of nescafe decaf reduced to £4 with a nectar card. Bargaintastic!
 
TheOracle said:
Hypothetical question....

Let's say everyone has had enough. What would the government do if everyone suddenly decided to stop working? Maybe for a few days every month, but on the same day. Literally the entire country went on strike?
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That's pretty much a general strike. There's not a lot they could do, save for round up the ring leaders and hope that snuffs the situation out and pump out lots of propaganda against the situation. But if it's already gained enough traction that might just agitate people even more.
 
SPG said:
It's my understand that is the cost of the benefit itself. Not all the wages of the DUP etc.
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Do you mean what they give to the unemployment, then that is pretty much nothing in cost.
It is one of the smallest costs out of all benefits, last time I look it was the second lowest cost to the tax payer.
 
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TheOracle said:
Hypothetical question....

Let's say everyone has had enough. What would the government do if everyone suddenly decided to stop working? Maybe for a few days every month, but on the same day. Literally the entire country went on strike?
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This was historically called a Sunday in the 70s when as a kid basically nothing was open. Apart from petrol stations.
We manged to survive 4 or 5 a month!
 
I see UBI as an eventual necessity, but assuming our incompetent government will implement it correctly is a pipe dream.

When all the high paying, white collar, jobs are replaced by AI or similar, what do we do with all the population out of work? Apparently, according to some in this thread, we're better off just collapsing as a society.
 
Tephnos said:
I see UBI as an eventual necessity, but assuming our incompetent government will implement it correctly is a pipe dream.

When all the high paying, white collar, jobs are replaced by AI or similar, what do we do with all the population out of work? Apparently, according to some in this thread, we're better off just collapsing as a society.
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Probably left to die. We are selfish by nature. We let others in poor countries just die. I don't see it being any different.

Its kind of happening already, just slowly. Standard of living is going down, nhs is breaking. I don't see anything in neat future changing that.


Hope something does change. But Id be more surprised if things improve than deteriorate.
 
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