Thanks for forwarding that. In case you're curious how I'd respond to them...
Let's see roughly how much I made, for every year of my life:
45 to 30 years ago: $0 (well, maybe some allowance)
25 years ago: $5,000 in a year
20 years ago: $25,000 a year
15 years ago: $50,000 a year
10 years ago: $100,000 a year
5 years ago: $150,000 a year
last year: $250,000 a year
Okay, now, if you ask me when I'd like to have paid less taxes - or received some UBI... And when I'd be willing to pay taxes, and when I'd be willing to pay it forward, the answer is very clear to me:
UBI + Free Education + Free Healthcare + Progressive Taxes
I think trying to turn someone who ends up making $40,000 a year into someone who ends up making $70,000 a year is worth investing in them, early on in their career.
I'm also willing to give up several things:
Minimum Wage, Union Protections, government mandates on "if you work X hours a week, and the business has Y employees, the business needs to offer you Z benefit"
I believe in education like Sam Seaborn [1]. I believe that automation is really on the verge of granting us essentially infinite Supply of very many goods and services. I believe that UBI + Progressive Taxes are the right way to distribute the benefits of automation as fairly as possible, while still benefiting from the advantages of a capitalistic market.
That's my stand.
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xlyBfInS7ec
