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Cake day: June 26th, 2023

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  • I’d like to see someone try a UBI system that was genuinely universal. Literally everyone gets it, employed or not, regardless of income level, but at the same time minimum wage is removed because your living expenses are already ostensibly covered. So if a business can get someone to come in for $1/hour, or even for free, great. All wages just become “gravy” if someone wants luxuries above and beyond basic living expenses.

    Under such a system I’d be interested to see how much what are currently minimum wage jobs would need to offer on top of UBI to get people in the door. I could absolutely see things like hobby shops employing people for pennies who’d be happy to be there just due to interest/passion in the subject of their work. Conversely I could see the wages for dreary or abuse prone jobs like gas station attendant or fast food cashier going up because no one in their right mind would want to do it for a pittance if their basic needs are already covered.






  • They’re municipally operated here and we actually had a case a few years back where a small town that couldn’t reasonably afford to operate their own fire department needed to make arrangements with a nearby larger town to have fire emergency response services cover them.

    The larger town said sure, $50 per year per home. Small town had 63 people, but some refused to pay. Fire department said they weren’t going to keep track of which houses were and were not covered, so they had to all be on board or none of them would be.

    Naturally a home later caught fire and burned to the ground. Thankfully no one was inside at the time.



  • You are a worm through time.

    The thunder song distorts you.

    Happiness comes.

    White pearls, but yellow and red in the eye.

    Through a mirror, inverted is made right.

    Leave your insides by the door.

    Push the fingers through the surface into the wet.

    You’ve always been the new you.

    You don’t want this to be true.