Why not just fucking assimilate? Life would be so much simpler.

Haha I appreciated the discussion. Have a good one.

As the study takes data from a 50 year period of time it would be modeled in automatically, unless the phenomenon you describe takes longer than 50 years to yield capital or is so rare that it wouldn’t happen within a 50 year period. 

Yes, an economic study that I used in a discussion about economics is talking about economic productivity. Since we live in a capitalist society productivity is usually measured by the amount of capital an individual produces, so I don’t see the distinction between economic productivity and what you’re suggesting.

You are demonstrably wrong about this.

Thanks, I’ve already had 2, one is in college (full scholarship, women in engineering, yaaah!) and the other in high school.  Jealousy is the resting state of the modern american liberal.

Traditionally pilot studies are used to examine if something is worth studying more in-depth. You could argue these pilot studies don’t suggest that it’s worth examining further, but I really don’t think evidence supports that. The consensus with both of the aforementioned studies is that more data is necessary. Also…

Dumb, apparently. Because when I see someone state a desire to make something unnecessary I kind of take it to mean they’d like to eventually phase it out to the point of irrelevance or eliminate it.
Must be my public school education that’s not allowing me to grasp the nuances of AOC’s brilliance.

IIRC those were very small and were considered pilot studies so I would be a little hesitant to draw any substantial conclusions from them. Here’s an opinion piece you may find some value in on the Finnish study.

“The problem is UBI has already failed in other European countries with smaller populations, so what evidence is there it would work here?” 

Have kids or don’t. It’s no one’s business but your own. Just be prepared to be a responsible parent if you do.

To be fair, liberals have been telling people not to have kids since the original environmental panic of the early 70s.  It’s a midset really, that they don’t like humanity, and wish to see it end, which is the only possible conclusion you can draw when someone tells you not to have kids.  Fortunately for the future,…

Telling a woman to grow up is sexist? Can’t be. Splinter commenters do it to writers all the time so it must be progressive!

Fiscal policies can adjust to inflation in a way wages cannot. Something like socialized medicine can be used to implement price controls or price offsets, and UBI can be tied to the rate of inflation to help mitigate the issue.

Do you allways berate, bellitle and be a general dick to people who post comments online that you politically disagree with?

You’re right, by the time you get through all the legal challenges, contract negotiations, and who knows how many other ways money will be pissed away before anything beneficial actually happens, I expect that we’ll be 10 years down the road and trillions more over what they’re projecting here, with little if anything…

Being the Democrats are incompetent administrators of every social program they’ve ever started, and are incapable of building mass transit in states where they’ve had single-party dominance for decades, and refuse to listen to the French and Chinese and Japanese rail builders for expertise, and their approach to…

Even if its the more reasonable $60 trillion over 10 years that’s been thrown around, its still a hilariously large (too large) amount of money.

For her next trick, AOC is introducing a bill that makes it illegal to be unhappy.

So Robert Kraft went to a seedy massage parlor in a Florida strip mall at 11 a.m. that Sunday, then presumably got on his private plane and flew to Kansas City, where he watched the NFL team he owns punch a ticket to the Super Bowl. Rich people are so fucking bizarre.