While the quality of this animation is excellent, I fail to see where the free money will come from. If we print more, we reduce the value of the money already in circulation. The country still has an enormous deficit and can hardly afford to give away $1000 per month to every citizen. Where would this money come from, without taking it from people who earned it?
Reviews for "Basic Income for the US"
adamanimates responds:
Read the first link in the description for a detailed plan on how to do it.
Underrated animation.
This video very clearly explained everything while also getting straight to the point and not dwelling on anything for too long. The animation was smooth and pleasant while also looking nice.
In terms of the video's message, I like it. It won't be perfect; no solution will be. However, it's still a start, at least. I don't see you as a communist or a socialist. I honestly don't know where that theory is coming from.
Hopefully, someone, anyone, is reading this. Not the best review I've ever made, but I feel like I got my points across. Five stars.
@MeGa-wise: In the video, it specifically said that the money would come from the richest people. It's not possible for most people to live off of $1000 a month. People would still need to work because people never have enough money. The government already pays for a lot of our stuff, so adding discretionary income wouldn't be that different. This is just a video on Newgrounds. I'm not sure why you're made at adamanimates?
Why not just climb into matrix coffin and get fed trough tubes and get visual signals transmitted directly into brain of brave new Utopia?
Nowhere does this video explain where the money will come from, what to do with overpopulation of people stopping working and living on basic income, how force will be used to take away money from successful people to be distributed around, how basic income will also raise prices accordingly and how all the supposed " successful examples" are short term ans mall scale instances of borrowing the money. because answers to all these questions will make this idea look bad.
The communist stupidity is infinite.
Author. You are worried about your job taken by machines? Well by centralizing the government you only centralize the power to use machines. The answer is small government and decentralized access to fruits of machine labor. Be an animator and own the machines doing the animation for you and get money from their job, making small corrections from time to time. Make machines work for you rather then instead of you. Paying universal income for people to just suck their thumbs and give away all control over fruits of machine labor and money distribution to central government is exactly what the wealthy elites want to centralize power and create a communist tyranny.
And if you are really worried about your success as an animator, then stop making boring propaganda movies and start making entertaining games and moviese this portal is made for.
adamanimates responds:
There must be some reason that so many economists have supported the idea. Perhaps you've done the math better than they have, and proven it can't be done.
To me, UBI is decentralized access to the fruits of the machines. It doesn't centralize government power because there are no decisions being made for you about what to spend it on. It is less paternalistic than current welfare systems.
I am as against centralized power as you are. We all should all be shareholders in the fruits of technology, not just the elites who will otherwise consolidate power.
As for my own career, most of my time is spent working on TV cartoons which are meant to be entertaining. This sort of thing is what I do in my free time, like writing an essay. You had no obligation to watch it. I'm just hoping to spark discussions.
I find this animation very educational and cleverly sculpted, for a stop-motion animation. Never mind those who call you socialist or communist, because equality isn't supposed to be based around those forms of government. From what history has thought us, communism is based around a one-party totalitarian state that do give equality to people based on paygrades, but people brush off the first part, which is that communists want to be in charge of people with a one-party state.
But, like I said, this is an incredibly educational video that should be appropriate to schools and such. Maybe I can send this to my former economics teacher, and she can think about it as well.
adamanimates responds:
I would be happy to hear what your economics teacher thinks!
There are a lot of misconceptions about both socialism and communism in the US. Socialism is simply worker's control of the means of production. There are lots of worker owned businesses without bosses in the States, and they tend to do just fine. Some democratically choose to divide wages equally, and some choose to make wages depend on other things, like how long you've worked there, or your particular skillset.
As for Communism, there are some that do want a top-down central planning approach (which sure had some problems in the USSR... it's pretty much impossible for a central authority to know what everyone needs at any given time) and there are also Anarchist-Communists who would rather democratic control of markets, with bottom-up decision making instead of central control.