Great work on this. The message is silly. But still nice work.
The idea of basic anything for anyone is nonsense.
Need the basics? Work for the basics.
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adamanimates responds:
If you disagree with the message, do you also disagree that technological unemployment will be a thing? What would you do if you found yourself unable to find work, through no fault of your own?
There's a great book I recommend to everyone called "Rise of the Robots" by Martin Ford. It might convince you that new jobs being created by technology are far fewer than those being eliminated by it.
Also, in Canada we already have a basic income for seniors called the Canada Pension Plan. It was enacted after finding that lots of seniors were reduced to eating catfood in order to get by. In the US there is Social Security. They have significantly reduced poverty among seniors. Would you scrap these programs because 'basic anything for anyone is nonsense'?
I'm always up for a polite debate if you'd like to PM me.
I'm partial to like this video because I'm on a socialist kick these days, but this is a good intro to basic income. Although, if I do have to critique the video itself, I would have liked more specific examples of the benefits of basic income and counterarguments to the "humans are lazy" theory. How do the different forms of basic income work around the world? What can and can't the previously homeless man afford with basic income? I appreciate the additional resources in the author comments, but it's a fault to not have mentioned inflation and basic income
tldr; more examples and info in the actual video, please! Thank you
adamanimates responds:
It was originally much longer, but I decided it was more valuable as a shorter intro to the idea, and then people can branch off into the articles linked if they'd like more info. You're right that inflation is a major concern, but it's hard to get into all the economic arguments in a few sentences. If I had to sum it up in the video, I might have said that there's no evidence for people's fears. Most BI proposals aren't creating new money, they are distributing it via extra taxes on capital. I would argue that the increased economic activity from people finally being able to meet their needs would lead to more competition, and prices would stay similar.
Look, we have this sort of thing in Israel, the result is that unemployed people can have more children cause each child is another paycheck. Many (the majority) of those children are similar to their parents and are not as excited or competitive about maintaining a job. This is how our society nurtures them to be and it is in the nature of their parents.
People like myself who are working hard, are paying for these children and exhausting their savings and recreational money, staying at home after work and mostly sleeping cause tomorrow is another day and we have to work hard to support the freeloaders. We are basically forced to work for free to help strangers by paying taxes. I know this may sound strange to you but knowing that a large portion of my income will be drained by taxes does not entice me to work harder which means there is less for everyone.
People who are poor don't deserve to be poor, just like people who are short don't deserve to be be short and people who are painfully ugly don't deserve that either. People like myself who are bad at sports, deserve to be bad at sports? no. People who are bad at satisfying the needs of others, get less value back from these strangers who owe them little. Sure they don't "deserve" to be born less gifted in the practicality domain but it happened. You are not breaking people's legs because they are highly gifted at sports or pouring acid on their face cause they are pretty, so why would you want to forcibly take money from people who are gifted at working and doing what people need and want?
It wouldn't be bad if poor unemployed people wouldn't procreate but they do at a higher rate than hard working "rich" ones which means their lives are not as terrible as you claim. In fact, the level of life afforded by a poor person today is far better than that of the same person 100 years ago.
To be honest, I am all for what you say, a basic income for artist and people who follow a more non-conformistic life. Just as long as they don't have children and not because I want to decide for them, it is just unfair to ask me to support other kids when because of my job, I hardly have time to see my own child.
adamanimates responds:
I think it's a shitty situation that you barely have time to see your family. I also don't think that you should have to pay so much in tax to support the poor. There is more than enough money at the top of the income scale to pay for everything I'm talking about. The rich don't need to work at all because all their money comes from capital gains. They tend to own the media and so thoughts like "the poor are lazy" and "taxes are bad" get pushed into the culture. They even call themselves "job creators."
Really they're just working you to death for their own benefit and trying to get you to blame the poor for not working as hard as you.
Basic Income sounds nice all around.
If it was enacted in the United States (where I live), do you think it would work?
The United States is already in heavy debt (as the whole world knows) and i feel like the money would have to come from somewhere.
Taxing the rich would be difficult, they are already fucked up the U.S. economy, and they'd shoot down any law or program that would cost them any pocket change.
While middle class, people in their mid to late twenties (like me), have bachelor degrees working multiple retail jobs with high school kids and still having trouble paying bills and feeding themselves.
When I go on job interviews for full time work, even though I'm a graduate, they refuse to hire me because I lack work related experience.
I'd be thankful to hear your take or opinion on this.
Anyway,
The argument your trying to make is clear and concise and full of convincing facts and real-life situations.
This video is a good length without being too long.
The character designs are simple but are appropriate.
adamanimates responds:
It might surprise you to learn that the US came very close to passing a basic income in the 60s. Nixon was actually strongly in favor of eliminating poverty until he encountered political resistance within his administration.
https://www.jacobinmag.com/2016/05/richard-nixon-ubi-basic-income-welfare
If that had passed, other countries would have followed and the world would be very different today.
So it's definitely viable and affordable. The question is entirely about politics.
Loved the animation, and the examples used were constructed well. I think the audio could have used some fine-tuning though as it sounded a little rough and quiet.