Yep, and this is where we start getting to the limits of my knowledge and the weeds of politics. Generally speaking i think as a species we have a lot of jobs that don’t need to exist or shouldn’t exist, and a lot of people who would be left in poverty without them (and many who already are in poverty simply because there are more people than profitable things to do). I think there has got to be some way of meeting everyone’s basic needs without a pretty binary choice of working a traditional job or living in poverty, but exactly what that looks like idk. I have some ideas, but they’re probably not worth getting into here/now
No problem, and i wouldn’t say you’re dumb about these things. More accepting of injustice than i’d like maybe, but not dumb. I couldn’t find those numbers on their site, how much is it?
Universal basic income, basically, yes. Which would ideally revolutionize a lot, so while I’m drooling over the idea in a perfect world, I’m also banking on something about it being horribly twisted before they ever consent to do something close to that. They’d have more money to put back into the economy than they are, but people scrambling in poverty don’t have the energy to take an active interest in the doings of the elite.
Their site lists:
For every 50 Champions contributing $200/month each, AFA will hire one more DC advocate!
So $120k per year. Googling the current salary of a DC lobbyist gets me anywhere from $56k - $210K. Should have just done that instead, huh. Getting into political arguments with strangers could have been a paid gig.
Yep, and this is where we start getting to the limits of my knowledge and the weeds of politics. Generally speaking i think as a species we have a lot of jobs that don’t need to exist or shouldn’t exist, and a lot of people who would be left in poverty without them (and many who already are in poverty simply because there are more people than profitable things to do). I think there has got to be some way of meeting everyone’s basic needs without a pretty binary choice of working a traditional job or living in poverty, but exactly what that looks like idk. I have some ideas, but they’re probably not worth getting into here/now
No problem, and i wouldn’t say you’re dumb about these things. More accepting of injustice than i’d like maybe, but not dumb. I couldn’t find those numbers on their site, how much is it?
Universal basic income, basically, yes. Which would ideally revolutionize a lot, so while I’m drooling over the idea in a perfect world, I’m also banking on something about it being horribly twisted before they ever consent to do something close to that. They’d have more money to put back into the economy than they are, but people scrambling in poverty don’t have the energy to take an active interest in the doings of the elite.
Their site lists:
So $120k per year. Googling the current salary of a DC lobbyist gets me anywhere from $56k - $210K. Should have just done that instead, huh. Getting into political arguments with strangers could have been a paid gig.