£10,000 proposed for everyone under 55
The government should give £10,000 to every citizen under 55, a report suggests.
The Royal Society for the encouragement of the Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA) said it could pave the way to everyone getting a basic state wage.
The idea sees two payments of £5,000 paid over two years, but certain state benefits and tax reliefs would be removed at the same time.
The RSA said it would compensate workers for the way jobs are changing.
The money would help to steer UK citizens through the 2020s, "as automation replaces many jobs, climate change hits and more people face balancing employment with social care", the report said.
Also at The Guardian and CNBC.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by aristarchus on Saturday February 17 2018, @07:40AM (6 children)
If two men both read Ayn Rand, they become one in the spirit! The spirit is rather dumb, almost Alan Greenspan dumb, but they are one in it. So while there may be things that Ayn Rand, Rand Paul, and Paul Rand, opps, Paul Ryan? disagree about, they are united in the worship of the goddess of radical individualism, because the Soviet Revolution meant, she did not get a pony for her birthday. So spin me another one, Oh AC of infinite fuck offs, about how it is not the case that the American Asshole Republicans are not going to first act to reduce revenue, and then use that same lack of revenue that they have created, to argue that social entitlement spending is too expensive? This is their plan, and all the racist Trump voters will be quite astounded when they are screwed over by exactly what they elected. And, libertarians can go suck something, usually their own. . . we leave it at that.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by The Mighty Buzzard on Saturday February 17 2018, @11:45AM (5 children)
Nah, it takes much more than one book or even a dozen to teach people to be morons. You really need at least thirteen years just for baseline idiocy. For the desired level of stupidity you need at least four more years on top of that but at least they're stupid enough by then that you can get them to pay you a lot of money to finish up their intelligence removal.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 17 2018, @08:53PM (4 children)
Its funny how someone who is so frequently proven wrong and doesn't have the balls to admit they were likes to mock people who went through school. You are truly a monument to idiocy, I bet you could get Trump to make you a national treasure, y'know, like enshrine the total embodiment of this four year shitshow.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Saturday February 17 2018, @11:58PM (3 children)
Point me to an argument in recent history that I've lost, if you would. Keep in mind, losing an argument does not mean disagreeing with you; it means being presented with a point of logic and reason that I do not have a logical and rational rebuttal of.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 18 2018, @05:30AM (2 children)
Point me to an argument in recent history that I've lost
I'm reminded of the song|movie "Ride the Wild Surf".
The nitwit who wrote the lyrics|script seems to think that the last guy who continues to surf after the waves have broken up and gotten just plain dangerous is the best surfer.
(That nitwit had clearly never witnessed a surfing competition.)
Relating this to you:
Insisting on getting the last comment in a (sub)thread is not the same thing as winning the argument.
Often, your lack of knowledge and lame opinions simply become wearisome.
-- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Sunday February 18 2018, @12:18PM (1 child)
Interesting. I ask for evidence and get ad hom in response. Thank you for handing me that victory.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by acid andy on Monday February 19 2018, @11:06AM
To help him out a little, I'm still awaiting a rebuttal to my observation that you consider hypothetical and potentially harmful species more valuable than extant ones [soylentnews.org] (my first 3 paragraphs) although I appreciate that was a long discussion we were drawing to a close and I know you're quite a busy Buzzard.
If a cat has kittens, does a rat have rittens, a bat bittens and a mat mittens?