“Has anyone ever punched you in the face?
(Other than he won’t be invited)
This is an interesting offshoot of the guaranteed minimum income theory. One thing I would be wary of is turning America into America, Inc. and encouraging every citizen to think like a stockholder who is only interested in personal, short-term gains. Will many of us feel compelled to push for massive resource extraction merely so we can get a bigger…
In my quest to make Memes less divisive, I have been thinking about the the public discourse on Contraception / Sex Education / Abortion.
“I believe that owning something like a share in America would align all of us in making the country as successful as possible — the better the country does, the better everyone does — and give more people a fair shot at achieving the life they want.”
Interesting idea. But, in my humble opinion (being a non-American), should you not start by spending some of that GDP on basic social services, like a fair and free health care system, free basic education up to (at least) college — and preferably university — level, subsidized childcare, and other essential safeguards like unemployment benefits…
This is a good suggestion but, as has been noted in some other responses, it is the best way to fund Universal Basic Income. Most people see UBI as income redistribution but that has a whole range of problems not the least of which is fifty years of being people being told that is stealing to give to those lazy [insert ethnic group]. By funding a…
