I think the school of economics you're following here is wrong in what it values, but I don't have the energy to try to refute this on a point-for-point basis.
nyan
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Dude, they did it for an entire town in Manitoba for four years in the 1970s, and none of the horrors some people seem to love to predict with respect to UBI ever materialized. How big and long-lasting would a pilot program have to be to convince you that yes, this does work?
In other words, if you drink two beers a day, every single day, the total cost of your beer will go up about $6/year. If you're so close to the edge already that that is going to tip you over, maybe you ought to cut the beer altogether.
Linux mostly follows POSIX standards, even though it's never been certified as compliant, so much code targeting POSIX systems runs on Linux too. In other words, it didn't establish any standards so much as adopt one that already existed.
There is no POSIX standard for package managers, however.
Neither. Monetization is the cause. If the standard were still "your site is a hobby, you should expect to fund it out of pocket", none of the rest would matter.
And if you get past the tree, you have to make it across the roof of the garage, along the top of the fence, and through the neighbour's hedge.
. . . And 36 of those words had nothing to do with the story. Bot needs work.
That's like saying you can avoid tripping over a rock if you just will it out of existence. Reality doesn't work that way. And I don't think you really believe it does either. Kindly go troll somewhere else.
The point is that the claim doesn't matter unless someone cares enough about it to make an inquiry (that is, cares just a tiny amount), or it affects legal matters like status cards (in which case, someone will care enough to enquire). If there's no harm being done, then no enforcement needs to be done either. Which is also so very basic that my cat could figure it out.
Okay, now you're just being silly. My cat could figure that one out, especially with an example right in front of him.
They don't have to monitor it. They only have to respond to inquiries about people's tribal membership, not proactively anticipate them.
And when governments ignore the economic needs of everyone except the rich for too long, the result tends to be violence. The US is perilously close to that now, and we're not doing much better. D'you really want a revolution, with all the blood-in-the-streets nastiness that entails? We need to change the game somehow, and UBI is one way of doing it. Not the only way, granted, but the political will doesn't seem to be there for any of the others either.