£100 Per Week for Everyone

[bobspud]

Why not give everyone a free house?

A bit like the govt divorcing everybody...

Its not a bad idea. changing the focus of housing from one of monetary value to one of basic utility would do a lot for society as a whole.

[stek]

Its not a bad idea. changing the focus of housing from one of monetary value to one of basic utility would do a lot for society as a whole.

Bit like socialism then?

[filthy1980]

Thats one of the motives behind the idea. A fellow of the RSA has been talking about it for a while.
a) as a way to allow for the coming reduction in jobs caused by automation
b) as a way to reduce the cost of government.

Its a sound idea in principle because it allows you to move from a society that needs to be in a non job for 40 hours a week, to a position where the majority of people are free to live and contribute as they want to. Yes there will be lots of people that will stay in bed but society doesn't need them anyway.

hmmmm i'm warming to this but is our job market automated enough yet to justify such a policy, if you close down 90% of the welfare departments overnight, that's an awful lot of people out of work, society would take a decade to adjust i think

actually do the numbers stack up? 65million people x £100 p/w is £65 billion a week i think, is the welfare system that big? (number maybe closer to £40 billion when you take children into account but still, that's an awfully big number)

[sasguru]

hmmmm i'm warming to this but is our job market automated enough yet to justify such a policy, if you close down 90% of the welfare departments overnight, that's an awful lot of people out of work, society would take a decade to adjust i think

actually do the numbers stack up? 65million people x £100 p/w is £65 billion a week i think, is the welfare system that big? (number maybe closer to £40 billion when you take children into account but still, that's an awfully big number)

Govt. can just print that.
They tried it in Weimar Republic and Zimbabwe.
Wasn't a great success.

[filthy1980]

Govt. can just print that.
They tried it in Weimar Republic and Zimbabwe.
Wasn't a great success.

if the £100 is issued in crypto currency then im in

[sasguru]

if the £100 is issued in crypto currency then im in

You mean a currency that would soon be worthless compared with the "real" one?
Kind of defeats the point.

[unemployed]

Why not give everyone a free house?

I thought the Boomers got that already???

[d000hg]

Would all the bogus "asylum seekers" get this free money too?

Another leftie idea to attract more unwelcome, unchecked and unnecessary immigration to the land of freebies....

While it seems 'unfair' just think how many public sector jobs could be scrapped if we didn't have to monitor and administer benefits, try and chase people to look for work, watch out for fraudulent claims, etc.

All this automation and so on was supposed to move us into a culture where people didn't have to work to live, the menial work would all be done by machines giving us more time, and people would work doing things they found interesting.

[NotAllThere]

... and people would work doing things they found interesting.

Watching Jeremy Kyle and drinking gin.

[FatLazyContractor]

Can someone educate me on what you get for £100/week?