The Science of Free Money: Universal Basic Income | Sci Guys Podcast

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What would you do with UBI?

[@frickfrickfrickfrickfrickfrick]

rest

[@dq8431]

be slightly less depressed

[@darcytiede9359]

Save for top surgery. :(

[@FrozEnbyWolf150]

Still pursue the same line of work, only with way less pressure, and more money to save up for my transition.

[@piarateking8094]

well im already on disability so i would just be living off ubi

[@AnimilesYT]

I think UBI would transform our society. Many people work for low wages at fast food chains, and with a UBI theh would have to be paid a lot more to keep people willing to qork there. This would raise prices and probably lower the number of customers. So I think a lot of companies like that will get into financial trouble and they'll have to change their business model. At the same time there will still be a demand for quick and easy food, so I expect that people who like such work will start up their own businesses. It will probably also boost local culture and the sense of community

[@LennySpring]

This podcast is like being back at uni and watching that one annoying student have a discussion with the professor except this time it’s interesting

[@tamalthor697]

01:29:11 I work in short term and long term disability with employer group benefits (so not on par directly); one of the things we are told, is that “research” shows people do want to work overall. It can be difficult when my corporate overlords tell me this, and the I hear government jag offs suggest we all just want to be on the dole. Oddly though, it seems that the government attempts at UBI support the ideas presented to me from the corporate world: People do want to work. They just needs a safe place to live, be able to eat, see a doctor, have a little fun. UBI could keep the corporate world honest: jobs that are engaging and pay enough. With the pandemic people wanted fast food delivered. We saw more value in what he service industry does, and those workers still get way underpaid. They should have UBI as an option until better pay is an option too

[@liz5100]

I think the part of UBI and its purpose in the largely automated society that we are rapidly gunning for is that not every living person is capable of the kinds of work that will be the only jobs that require humans. UBI right now is being framed as how it could solve current problems, but it will be needed to solve the ultimate problem and that is that at some point automation really will put large portions of the population out of work and there there won't be other jobs for them. Not everyone is capable of being a scientist or actually enjoys costumer service or what ever the case may be. If UBI is set up so that only people with jobs can get it then it will fail and it will make it more difficult to set it up properly in the future when it is even more necessary.

[@Abigael317]

I'd love to see Alaska UBI compared with northern Canada UBI. Similar weather/environment conditions, different government, plus a bunch of other variables.

[@nagyesszep]

the audio mixing makes this episode feel like I'm having auditory hallucinations

[@telotawa]

you gotta do land value taxes too, or else the landlords will just scoop up all the excess in rents

[@elizabethmonroe2290]

Personally, i believe that the government should provide basic housing for free with the option to pay extra tax, from earned income, to upgrade to better housing alongside having UBI.

[@BestFriendsWhoLiveTogether]

On Apple Podcasts, I can’t hear anything from this episode properly. Other episodes work but on this episode all I can hear is like a static glitchy sound

[@KathrynsRavens]

I've also noticed some glitchy sounds here on youtube too

[@GreenmonkVR1327]

I noticed this too. The ad at the beginning sounded fine and the actual episode was either techy noises or silence

[@LennySpring]

In Germany we have a very good social safety net. Much better than the UK in fact. Saying this as someone who’s lived in both countries

[@Pandefly]

With UBI, I would probably only work part-time, but if it actually happened I wouldn't be able to trust it would stick around, being a Canadian, I've seen it happen a couple times now. (For anyone curious, Dauphin is pronounced "daw-fin".)

[@alexwhitelaw2003]

id want everyone to be included cuz some of the biggest 'parasites' are working people CEO's positions and anyone that runs people

[@yohanrives3752]

I totally agree that owning two houses or appartements should be forbidden until everyone is happily housed

[@Coccinelf]

Completely unrelated but where I live, if your job is a child carer that works at home, you can only care for a max of 5 children. If you happen to have children yourself, the government literally cut your pay. If you have 2 children younger than school age, the government cut your pay by 40%! Just because you are caring for your children and not sending them away to be cared by other people while you work caring for other’s people children. It’s completely mad!

[@Desimere]

then does the salary come from the government? If you find someone else to take care of your children, it's for free?

[@Coccinelf]

@@Desimere Yes and yes! (It's about 7$ CAD per day per child)

[@Desimere]

@@Coccinelf that actually sounds like an incentive to get more women into the out-of-home workforce. But yeah, it's a bit silly that the best thing to do is to have childless people watch over other people's children while the people with children do other work. Although, grandparents can get paid for watching their own grandchildren still? Maybe it's an incentive to get elders into the workforce too? :D I am quite curious what kind of real life effects this has.

[@Coccinelf]

@@Desimere Only qualified people can get that job. If you are a stay at home parent, you get nothing at all. I don't think it has much effect at all. It only affects a small group of people. Which is child carers who work at home and have children of the right age. I only know of this problem because I know someone who is in that position.

[@Desimere]

@@Coccinelf ah, if it's such a small group, then it is indeed extra strange to write a specific law to cut their pay. Seems like the politicians were bored or had a grudge or sth

[@GreenLarsen]

You might want to look into UBS next. So closely related that its basically the same and yet, so different

[@CynderWolff]

overthrowing govt. right now. :salute: if i had UBI i would be able to afford to live while focusing on caring for my health and various disabilities. having to work to sustain survival greatly exacerbates my disabilities and makes life very hard for me to live.

[@lauraschiltz8074]

Either home repairs or invest so I can retire before I die.

[@randomname4726]

Are you American? I find is so bizarre and mind-blowing that you guys don't have a retirement system. Decent countries retire at like 65 a d get paid a pension until they die, and if they need a rest home and have no money for it the government pays for that too.

[@cryptojonny6837]

@@randomname4726 because some people are not going to take a chance or don't worry about retirement at 65 because there's no guarantee of making it until 65 you can grind at a job for many years but if you don't make it then its game over. I rather collect the big sum of money before 65 with different streams of income.

[@user-do3xo2bz6v]

could you guys possibly do one on schizoid personality disorder?

[@sallystrmose7592]

My dream is to earn enough money to become a patreon for this podcast

[@Kaltag2278]

I think people underestimate the drive of humans. There are very few people I know who can just stay home and loaf around all day without going bonkers. We are movers and doers and builders.

[@Crystalcreates33]

i support this

[@alexwhitelaw2003]

i cant juggle im fucked

[@Crystalcreates33]

i love you guys

[@yohanrives3752]

I would write books all day long

[@Enkiaswad]

Yes yes yes! Bring it! 😁

[@Abigael317]

Why is citing Vox for a quote a bad thing? Corry makes a big deal of it & I don't understand why. At first I thought he said Fox, but Vox is in the Citations.

[@SciGuys]

Vox can be pretty unreliable & shoddy

[@real_surreal_sir]

Theres original legitimate interviews to source, but beyond that? Yeah vox is obviously better than Fox, but not, well, great.... imagine slate or vice with fact checking standarfs that the former dont have, but not much else. Vox is great as a way to find academic or investigative sources worth reading yourself while ignoring the description and/or takes the articles themselves push whilst citing them. Vox will most often give real data and studies a bit of their own spin and cite a source directly, but often imply the authors' conclusion as seemingly part of the original academic conclusion, whether or not they fit.

[@planetaryg0]

YAYY a capitalism ep i can feel it

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[@zip-tv_]

Usa are going the way of a debit card. So you can only use it to lift you out of poverty. Not partying.

[@moonblossom9433]

You two didn't name my state, how dare you.

[@SciGuys]

Pretty sure we named all of them...

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