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[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Again, I'm not part of the #yangang, I don't know how I ended up on their e-mail list. I honestly don't believe in "political theater", you know that. But I've been curios enough to click a few and watch some of the attached to videos to understand how "his idea" of UBI works.

He's stated in a few speeches that social media apps like Google, Twitter and Facebook have reached such a level, that they're already involved in politics, influencing elections and that politicians use them to communicate information to the general public. They also take the ad revenue, as well as data we generate as independent users, and sell it indefinitely to the highest bidders/whoever shows interest. Yang's idea (iirc, I'm not a follower of his politics), was to basically recognize Google, Twitter, Facebook and the like as government institutions that need to answer to certain rules. And as such, due to the insane profit they make off our ad revenue and selling our data indefinitely, owe it's home country that gave it a place to build it's platform and reach such an international height of use, a tax. That's where our UBI would come from; it wouldn't be stolen from anyone, as this is a virtual commodity that we as users generate.

I don't remember the exact numbers, but even still, we wouldn't get 100% profit and according to Yang's campaign, we'd be able to offer that amount to each individual household using his model, while still allowing the big tech companies to profit. Essentially a win-win situation for everyone, minus the insane greed.

But again, I don't know his politics or if the information I'm supplying on his campaign is 100% accurate as I've only seen a few of his speeches that were sent out in e-mails, such as that one he won an award for (can't find it, do a search result and everything is spammed about it him dropping out).

[–]AnarchySpeach 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Google, Twitter and Facebook

Not sure what's stopping them from saying no and moving to a different country. This isn't a small number of moneys we're talking about.

it wouldn't be stolen from anyone,

While a few mil (or 100 mil, depending on who got permission to get UBI) that's still enough for them to throw a fit about if they wanted to.

Now I'm curious how many Yang adds were on facebook or twitter. I can't remember seeing very many. lol