Back in the day, a local New York City humor magazine decided to find the cheapest rich person in New York.
They set up a bank account and mailed a bunch of rich people a check for about $2.50. Half didn't bother to cash it, and were eliminated.
They kept lowering the amount, until it was 13 cents. Only Donald Trump and an arms dealer cashed a check worth a dime and three pennies.
They should have kept going until the arms dealer stopped cashing checks.
Except that's only how it works mathematically, not in practice due to human nature. Perceived value of money would be something really interesting to study as there's just so many variables of which wealth is one, but I'm not even sure it's the most important when compared to upbringinging, source of money (do you work for it, even if you're overpaid, vs winning the lottery/being a parasite like selling mineral rights or buying properties and getting a management company you're not involved in to rent them out etc.) and others
A banana still costs $10 for everyone
Where tf do you live that a banana is $10?
It's a pretty famous joke from the old show 'Arrested Development.' A rich matron asks 'how much can a banana cost? $10?'
I'm bracing for all the memes when bananas actually cost ten bucks soon.
I read/watch a lot of old mysteries. Up until about 1980, it's common for writers to put exact amounts of money in the dialogue. They stopped doing that because something that seemed like a lot of money would eventually seem cheap. For instance, Jim Rockford's $200.00 a day plus expenses doesn't seem like a lot of money when minimum wage is $120.00 a day. Or the famous $5.00 milkshake in 'Pulp Fiction.'
They probably live in the Bananas Stand.
There's always money in the Banana Stand.
I burned the banana stand down for the insurance money.
Whoosh?
I guess so lmao
Can we keep this kind of political rhetoric off of shower thoughts please?
Not sure when poor people being able to survive had become politics, but you do you
When it involves terms like "universal basic income" it becomes political.
I just don't like seeing left propaganda all over Lemmy. If you want to create community fine as I believe in free speech but don't pollute other communities with your beliefs. I've noticed that Lemmy has gotten a less political overall but I still have noticed bad moderators for time to time.
So, you support free speech... as long as you don't see it. Feeling cognitive dissonance yet?
"left propaganda" BAHAHAHA that's like complaining about seeing people using science in their daily lives or talking about science and calling it science propoganda
being right-wing is inherently irrational and anti-science, there is no room to complain about "left propoganda" especially when UBI isn't even inherently leftist, UBI still exists solely to prop up a broken capitalist system making it live on the right of the political spectrum. left propaganda would be advocating for socialism or something, this is just advocating for welfare capitalism (which has been proven to be far better for the populace than other forms of capitalism in use).
this post doesn't even state an opinion on UBI though, so it's weird that you took it as "propoganda", or even "political". it's literally just proportions. it's really hard to take someone who's saying "the objective truth is just political propaganda" seriously.
That would have been one of my points too, how can you claim UBI is leftist when ideally you wouldn't need it under a working left-wing system in the first place. I'm not very knowledgeable about politics, but "this is leftist propaganda" isn't it, chief
Better living standards for everyone is "left propaganda?"
It unironically is.
Posts like the above are why I'm a communist now.
You are literally extracting the political token of why universal basic income is helpful, and then claiming that it's "not political"...?
Oh my god, helping people! How political!
Helping people via the government is political.
Political isn't some word for "government action that's controversial" or "government action that you don't like." It's just the discussion of government actions.
It's inherently political to discuss universal basic income and acting as if it isn't, is intellectually dishonest.
Which is one of the reasons I actually oppose UBI. Also, in practice, it will be used to replace SSI, not enhance it. At least in the USA, a better answer is fixing and expanding the SSI and Social Security system. People making 6 figures don’t need an extra $1k a month or whatever figure people want to suggest. But giving very poor people an extra $2k, moderately poor people $1k, etc. would be a bigger help. And the idea would be if you make $2 or $3 more dollars, you lose $1 in support
Edit: it would have to taper more slowly, maybe $10 you lose $1. It’s funny to see the downvotes, I don’t often see Lemmy folks defending ideas from conservative economists like Friedman.
That's just pointless extra bureaucracy.
A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The best ones are thoughts that many people can relate to and they find something funny or interesting in regular stuff.