Forty eight percent of Americans support a universal basic income

I'm all for it ain't making crap the way it is, so can't go wrong. - I have a feeling this is the way most people think.
 
I'm all for it ain't making crap the way it is, so can't go wrong. - I have a feeling this is the way most people think.
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Maybe... I think it's  people that think they'll just get paid to do nothing - but I suppose it's also all the unskilled labor out there thinking it would be fair that they make just as much as the "skilled labor" positions that others  have worked through school and struggled "in the trenches" and such to improve their situation

 
I think this new generation and probably each generation after will want this more and more. We live in a day of "I want everything for free without having to work for it." But then again I can somewhat agree with it in a way. The cost of living don't equal the cost of pay to keep up. I honestly don't know how people make it without tons of debt.
 
I think this new generation and probably each generation after will want this more and more. We live in a day of "I want everything for free without having to work for it." But then again I can somewhat agree with it in a way. The cost of living don't equal the cost of pay to keep up. I honestly don't know how people make it without tons of debt.
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Making enough to get by is not the same as getting a universal income.  Universal income is everyone makes the same whether they are doing something that requires years of learning/experience and continuing those daily, or whether they are bagging groceries.  Those things are not equal and should not be paid as such.   Making enough to get by, aka the cost of living, is also not a problem.  The problem is that people think everything is a right and a necessity.  Cable TV, Internet, smartphones, cars, video games, etc.   Hell, even having a family.  All of those things are luxuries.  I understand people wanting all those things, but then people need to work for them in order to afford them.  If someone is happy in a minimum wage job, then they need to live within their means in terms of housing/food and whatever few luxuries they can afford.  Beyond that, get a loan, go to school, or put in the time to work up from trenches to improve one's situation.   

Someone else's poor life choices to not put effort in during high school, get some higher education, or pursue skilled trades through internship/apprenticeship is that person's problem, not mine.  Those putting in the effort shouldn't be punished with this kind of crap idea just because others don't want to put in some effort

 
Capitalism vs. socialism.

At the corporate level we have "Crony Capitalism."

The much vaunted "Wikipedia" definition:

Crony capitalism is an economy in which businesses thrive not as a result of risks they take, but rather as a return on money amassed through a nexus between a business class and the political class. This is done using state power to crush genuine competition in handing out permits, government grants, special tax breaks, or other forms of state intervention[1][2] over resources where the state exercises monopolist control over public goods, for example, mining concessions for primary commodities or contracts for public works. Money is then made not merely by making a profit in the market, but through profiteering by "rent seeking" using this monopoly or oligopoly. Entrepreneurship and innovative practices, which seek to reward risk are stifled, since the value-added is little by crony businesses as hardly anything of significant value is created by them, with transactions taking the form of "trading". Crony capitalism spills over into the government, the politics and the media,[3] when this nexus distorts the economy and affects society to an extent it corrupts public-serving economic, political and social ideals.
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each generation after will want this more and more
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16 And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.

18 Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.

 
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