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Highstronaught@feddit.uk 3 months agoIt’s not that it makes 110 k jobs immediately available, it’s that is gives you more leverage with negotiating pay as if you walk away you are not under threat of starving to death. As you would potentially be if you had no income between jobs.
Professorozone@lemmy.world 3 months ago
I own a house. I don’t think $12k is going to keep me from starving or more importantly, I’m no more likely to walk out on a job once I reach a certain income because it just isn’t enough. It may work if your flipping burgers.
Highstronaught@feddit.uk 3 months ago
It doesn’t have to necessarily be $1000 per month, it should be the minimum amount of money needed to have food, clothing, shelter etc. just enough to live off. For me £1000 per month is plenty for where I live.
It also isn’t just about encouraging higher pay, knowing that workers are not longer worried about putting food on the table when they are voting to strike might influence management decisions on redundancys or workplace safety.
For people who earn 100k, and are living at their means (i.e, spending that amount of money on better food, housing, clothes and other luxurys) it would be a big jump but for the people who would most benifit from ubi it would be more manageable.
Also apologies for replying so late, I either closed the notification accidentally or just never got one.
Professorozone@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Did you mean "… For people who earn 100k, and are living at their means, it WOULDN’T be a big jump…? "