Have you ever taken a decent dose of an amphetamine? It isn't going to make you smarter but it will almost certainly boost your energy and ability to get stuff done.
The type of person who gets elected to Congress is likely to be far above average in charisma/intelligence/skill, and hence underpaid relative to what they could attain in the private sector
If a given person's labor is of poor enough quality such that its value is not enough to provide whatever is considered a reasonable quality of life in a given circumstance, adding a UBI or other welfare payment is not just subsidizing employers
It's definitely about money, but "inequality" makes it sound like the fact that other people out there are wealthy is the cause of antisocial people destroying property to pay for drugs
I would posit that a society of reasonably well-off people would be less likely to steal guardrails for drug money than a society with a lot of poverty.
I would guess certain voting patterns would be different too, for that matter.
Perhaps part of that is: what underlies the inequality? Are folks getting wealthy by good old-fashioned hard work? Or something else?
> The details will seem foreign to many in the West, where building home equity is baked into the system. But the central idea is simple: What if homeownership had no profit motive and no capital gains?
People are already taking to the streets there over immigration. I've thought about submitting that story but it's hard to find a source that I'd feel comfortable posting that also covers enough of what's going on to be worthwhile.
(The optics are incredible, though. The protesters are able to show footage of women being arrested ostensibly for putting up English and even UK flags, in the UK, and crowds being pushed around by police phalanxes in riot gear; meanwhile counter-protesters call them "fascists" and ramble about domestic violence charges.)
