12-02-2022, 05:04 PM
(This post was last modified: 12-02-2022, 05:08 PM by Oh_hunnihunni.)
(12-02-2022, 04:36 PM)Wainuiguy Wrote: If you took all the money in the world and divided it equally amongst everyone within a few years those who had most of it at the start would have it again.Research indicates it isn't wealth that makes a nation happy.
(12-02-2022, 02:43 PM)Oh_hunnihunni Wrote: We could always do the opposite, decrease everyone else's income...Bit like the argument Lilith said about Nordic countries - they pay hight tax and are happy.  Just make everyone pay 60% tax and we will he the happiest country in the world.
It is education.
(12-02-2022, 03:24 PM)Wainuiguy Wrote:Maybe the flowing up the line ought to stop. After all, the minimum wage is a minimum, for the lowest paid. There is no assumption the better paid others then need to restore the gap that made them the lowest paid - that attitude needs to just go away.(12-02-2022, 02:58 PM)Oh_hunnihunni Wrote: Well, it is logical. If the increase to the wages of the lowest paid boosts inflation, then doesn't it follow if we reduce the highest paid it will have the opposite effect?What an idiotic argument.  Boosting lower paid people isn't bad but it flows on up the line increasing wages for all then costs for all eroding the increase in the first place
Just pointing out the obvious flaw in yet another kick the poor argument...
It is yet more evidence that a UBI is a sensible option.