That bad apple has long since ruined the bunch

Tie it to inflation and end taxes on individuals… It makes no sense to distribute UBI and then tax it. Just tax the whole bill for society to the corporations. That incentivizes corporations to put pressure on each other to keep prices down and make products that last. There are definitely some industries that should be owned by the state though.

People who sell bullets and bombs really want this

We could try to math it. Say you invested $1m into the whole thing. Now you’re doing great and bringing in $1m/yr, but you’re turning people away. In order to make more money you need to hire people. So you hire those 2 you mentioned. You pay them each $100k/yr after benefits and insurance and whatnot. They in turn allow the business to make $1.5m/yr or $300k “extra” after you pay them. You can think of that $300k “extra” as wealth they are creating and then “investing” back into the company. After 4 years they will have “invested” just as much into the company as you ever did, and should probably have an equal say in the decisions, and probably start getting an equal share of the profits.

That’s what I thought… But if it’s winter in the north then it’s summer in the south, so you’d expect them to average in a way that you wouldn’t see such stark differences between say January and July. In July it’s winter in the south, summer in the north. Intuitively I’d assume they’d average. Temps would still be rising year over year, but you wouldn’t see a difference between months. A couple people have answered that it has to do with the earths tilt and the fact that there’s more landmass in the north. Seems plausible I guess.

Why does it seem like this is only the northern hemisphere and not truly “global”? Shouldn’t it be warm in the southern hemisphere when it’s cold in the north? So shouldn’t these groupings generally hover around an average between northern and southern hemisphere temps?

Oh good, another thing Americans spend more than almost anyone else on and get worse results.

Gotcha, thanks

Who do they sell it to?

I’m sure they were able to pick themselves up by the bootstraps right?