What If We Just Gave Poor People a Basic Income for Life? That’s What We’re About to Test.

[rhett o rick]

223. I would love to continue this discussion, but my point here is related to wealth and not money.

Wealth is the relationship set up when people have different amounts of assets. If everyone had the same amount of assets there would be on concept of wealth. So if we simply print money and give it to the poorest it wouldn't help them if the prices all went up accordingly. So maybe we ask the middle and working classes to settle for a lower standard of living in order to help the poor. This is the conservative plan. Don't mess with the wealth of the upper 1%, but if you want to help the poor, go ahead middle and working classes. This is the Clinton plan. Lower the standards of living of the middle and working classes to raise the standard of living of the poor. So we are talking about socialism for the 99% but leaving the 1% out. The failure of this is obvious to anyone but those living in a conservative denial bubble. Eventually the middle and working classes will meld with the poor to form one class of serfs. This is the Goldman-Sachs / Clinton plan.