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Of course we heard this 30 years years ago or more. I was supposed to work less and have more. Interesting, I work 60 hours per week... yea, I make more than 3 times what I did 40 years ago, yet somehow, everything costs over 4 times as much.

My first house cost under $50K. That very same house now costs six times as much.

Most of you here already know the punch line: inflation will sky rocket and that $200K will be barely enough to feed you the very next year.

Great plan.

Of course we heard this 30 years years ago or more. I was supposed to work less and have more. Interesting, I work 60 hours per week... yea, I make more than 3 times what I did 40 years ago, yet somehow, everything costs over 4 times as much. My first house cost under $50K. That very same house now costs six times as much. Most of you here already know the punch line: inflation will sky rocket and that $200K will be barely enough to feed you the very next year. Great plan.

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This and, how much of that UBI goes back to the government to pay for the program? 95%? And working people will pay an additional 50% in taxes? This is an unrealistic, unsustainable idea that homeless losers and idiots who can’t hold a job will find to be a great idea because they’re stupid. It’s just communism and the only people with money, food or a decent place to live will be the politicians, bureaucrats and party leaders. Read about the Soviet Union, China, and Iron Curtain countries and get back to me when you realize what life will be like. Hint: waiting in line for hours hours for the chance to BUY moldy bread, living in a two room apartment with 3 other families who stay up until 4 a.m. shouting and drinking vodka, doing slave labor for 10-12 hours a day and going to the Gulag if you complain about ANYTHING.

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Correct. Tyranny didn't work a hundred years ago and still doesn't work today. It only looks like it works for a very brief time until it runs out of other people’s money. Tyranny can be seductive at times but it's not sustainable.