Should we get rid of food stamps, Medicaid, etc, for families, and just give the poor lots of money?

hmm, take the reward/hook of free to play mobile gaming and combine that with porn. Have the illusion of free porn with the addictive qualities that free to play games have and Dr. Wankler may just be able to earn a living in the porn industry.

 

Well played, everybody!

 

Is that what was happening in Trump's hotel room in Russia?

 

Sorry, but that job has also been taken...

https://www.thesun.co.uk/living/2605288/westworld-humans-robots-coming-rise-sex-machine/

 

Is that second one a younger Freddie Ljungberg?

 

Was thinking Becks with cancer. That's an odd kink admittedly. Not sure it'll be a big seller.

 

Prepare for skynet:



https://www.techspot.com/news/70359-facebook-shuts-down-ai-system-after-invents-own.html

Digital Journal reports that the system was trained in English but decided this was an inefficient and illogical way of communicating. The solution it came up with was to create a system of code words and phrases that made the AIs sound slightly drunk.
In a conversation between two bots called Bob and Alice, Bob states: “I can i i everything else.” Alice responds with the equally bizarre: “balls have zero to me to me to me…” The rest of the exchange consisted of variations of these sentences.

/quote

 

"Me, me, me" and "I, I, I." Great: our future robot overlords are going to be narcissists of Trumpian proportions.

 

Thanks for that.

 

Findland will not continue their basic income pilot program, it will end at the end of this year and the reports will be published by the end of 2019.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-43866700

 

I would like to know what that report says.

 

Ben Carson just announced that he wants the greedy shiftless welfare moochers who receive housing assistance to go out and buy themselves some bootstraps that they can use to pull themselves up by. And only then can the go out and buy themselves a $31,000 table.

 

He might be the most un-brain surgeon looking brain surgeon ever. Like if you said a 98 lb weakling is the Patriots starting left tackle.

 

So there is the economic idea of giving poor people cash to alleviate poverty, some economic studies say that that seems to work, at least better than other programs.


But what if people say wait, I have a better idea, let do trickle down economics on this idea.

Well I present you the lets give money to entrepreneurs instead.

https://qz.com/africa/1327833/kenya...-running-a-massive-business-plan-competition/


Wait until Republicans hear of this

 

ok, so it is a Vox article, but still.

A decent article on the Alaska UBI and how it is working out and how a politician saw an opportunity to get elected on a populist platform to raise the UBI for everyone and the problems that caused.

https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2019/9/5/20849020/alaska-permanent-fund-universal-basic-income

 

Germany to do a 3 yer trial with UBI

Seems like too small of a sample size.

https://www.businessinsider.com/germany-begins-universal-basic-income-trial-three-years-2020-8

 

Maybe. I think it would make sense to target people who are already costing extra $$$ by heavily using social services.

I don't think this is a conclusive study. Basically, think of it like vaccine development. This is phase 1? Gotta see if it is even worth looking into further.