@anderseknert This is truly and deeply weird.

@mrundkvist Decidedly underrated option for mounts in fantasy settings!

@scottsantens @EndlessMason Well initially a lowish level UBI may not actually provide many families with a much larger income - the immediate aim as Scott says is to *stabilise* lower incomes. But anything eventually making poor folk richer needs measures against being predated: specific taxes that target wealth (LVT), controlling rents, regulating utilities etc can all play roles. UBI doesn't fix inflation or rent-seeking on its own, that's true, it's an important tool not a solo magic bullet.

@alisonw @evan Because that country still gets to govern my life?

Voting isn't a privilege, it's the right of the governed to have a say in their governance. Britain (in my case) has not stopped having a huge impact on my life just because I'm not living there. Governance isn't just taxes - it's things like the bilateral agreements that underpin the basis for my work and home, and it's the fact that because I'm not a citizen elsewhere the UK is always the country I'd have to return to.

@mpjgregoire @evan @stinerman I was having a discussion about this recently: I agree it's a better model. Though if the UK implemented the French style system there's a downside for my stress insofar as there'd genuinely be a solid chance I'd end up running for whichever seat contained Austria...

@wjmaggos @evan (Whereas conversely my country of residence is where I live and pay the large majority of my taxes to and use more public services & transport).

@wjmaggos @evan People living abroad are still hugely affected by the decisions made by their government back home. My entire rights & basis for living in my home are governed by foreign policy & by bilateral agreements between governments. Things like pension policy are also hugely relevant given I don't have permanent rights in my residence country. Should I not get any say in how my passport-country approaches those issues?

@ShaulaEvans by bug facts are you being taxonomically strict or is any invertebrate fact ok?

@anearthboundmisfit Welcome