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>>21374823
Life is dangerous. Did you know, on a relative basis, for every decile of life after your 20s the chance of death from all causes doubles? So,

30s = 2x chance of death compared with 20s
40s = 4x
50s = 8x
60s = 16x
70s = 32x
80s = 64x
90s = 128x

>>2240461

Charles Murray has some great things to say about universal basic income in Sam Harris' podcast interview.

Also general great interview about IQ.

As for the UBI, I'm a beneficiary. I got free money as a stipend for years. It was private, but the effect was the same. What did I do with it? Became frugal as fuck, attained 2 higher ed. degrees and now I'm highly skilled and independent.

While everyone else around me was being coerced like a bunch of cattle, and truly internalising the idea that there is no higher value that economic value, and that people must be forced to do things they don't want to do, we've turned into a degraded mass of exploited and abused abusers exploiting and abusing each other, ourselves, etc. unable to come to a consensus on any coherent, sustainable, and worthwhile vision for what society should be and could be.
I don't expect anyone here or in real life to understand. People are stupid, but they weren't born that way. They were forced to think a certain way. They are too mentally exhausted from trying to figure out how to get out of the rat maze of everyday life. It starts with how we treat children, how we ineffect, go short on their future, coerce them, expect them to believe that this is good thing, a necessary thing.

This system is going to fail, but before it does, it is going to degrade everyone who comes in contact with it, everyone who internalizes its values. Especially people like OP. For example, he'll be forced to work a job he doesn't want to do. He'll be forced to pay for "benefits" that amount to costs far in excess of the supposed costs of a UBI. He won't be educated or well read enough to understand the costs he's already incurred and will incur for the damage thats been done already and will continue to be done. He'll inherit a bag of bad debt, diminishing returns, and at best he'll merely alienate his children if he ever has them,