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[–] SabinStargem@lemmy.today 10 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago) (2 children)

Personally, I think a UBI-based society can do education better. Everyone should receive a UBI income by default, but working a job or being educated will replace the UBI with a larger amount of money. Grades for learning boosts income based on how good they are. An S-Grade student gets twice of what UBI brings in. 'Real' jobs start at twice the value of the S-grade student.

This means that students can go to college and get paid for it. While the prospect of the workplace can be alluring in a fiscal sense, a college student can stay in college for as long as they need to git good, to be fulfilled, or simply to pass time while waiting for a decent job opening. They aren't held hostage by debts.

Kids also get paid for their grades. This encourages them to learn, because there are material rewards for doing so.

IMO, fiscal responsibility is a skill that is learned, and in America, we don't teach kids how to handle money. Instead, they get the bulk of their fiscal learning when it is almost time to be kicked out of the nest. Which is dumb.

[–] JennyLaFae@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 15 hours ago

I long for a society where education, housing, medical care and food are structured for the people instead of the profit. Where education helps sort people into the work they're suited for. Where housing is something no one does without. Where medical care is fully free. Where food is food instead of fillers, nutrition instead of chemical design, and feeds people over profit.

[–] TheSlad@sh.itjust.works 8 points 19 hours ago (3 children)

Ok but if the government is spending all that money on its own citizens then how are they going to fund their hobby of blowing up brown people on the other side of the planet?

[–] ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 3 points 16 hours ago

Make the brown people pay for it?

[–] SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 17 hours ago

the politicians will also get UBI. Maybe they can pool their funds together and get the party started

[–] qarbone@lemmy.world 2 points 18 hours ago

People gotta think about these things! Is a happy, supported, educated populace going to get the DOW over 50,000??? Unlikely.