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Supplemental income in my opinion is better than UBI until you automate almost everything.

First 20 hours any citizen works gets supplimented to help balance out wealth disparity and ensure people can live comfortably on 20-24 hours a week work schedule. With automatic and large population making it unnecessary for people to work 40 hours.

I'd personally like a 3/4 day schedule/shift, where you can choose to work 3 days or 4 days (first 20 hours supplimented anyway)......allowing all jobs/shifts to be covered 7 days a week.

Everybody works though (though in theory you could do some jobs just a few hours a week (like 10) and lived below the comfort level (still get supplimented for those hours).

Basic wage for instance could be 15$ an hour across the board (min wage federal), and then supplimental income is $10 more an hour for the first 20 hours per week.

So if you worked just 20 hours, that would be $500 a week income, $2000 a month (and after taxes about $1700.

Work 10 hours and it would be about $1000 a month (about $900 after taxes), you could still barely live on that...but you would be struggling.

Work 4 days (32 hours), and you would make an additional $180 a week ($600 more per month after taxes).

And that would be the bare minimum you could make. Nobody would need to work 5 days a week, or over 40 hours to live.

Higher paying jobs still work that way as well, and are paid more just like in our current system (but also based on demand...ie jobs that are more important/needed will generally pay more base, even if they are not high skilled jobs etc).

A doctor for instance might make enough to live very comfortably working only 3 days a week. You would have more doctors as you need less and less laborers etc, so people would be free to aim for higher jobs.

Important to get rid of the crap education program in this country as well, so that going to school is available for everyone, and since you actually don't have to work as much, you can even do it easily while working and having your own place etc. ANYONE who wants to could go to school and learn to be a higher profession.

You'd still have capatalism, you would still have competition etc, but nobody would be as stressed, working while raising a child (especially as a family with 2 parents) would be WAY easier (I'd also make childcare more available and cheaper for single parents etc). Child care jobs for that matter would be supplimented just like all other jobs for the first 20 hours, so a parent (single etc) could work in the field with their children, and still have enough to support themselves (or one parent could do one job while the other works in child care, or one parent can work 3 days a week and the other 4 (also swing schedules where you alternate that would be pretty commmon, which would allow parents to alternate which week they work 4 etc). A parent would always be available that way to be with the kids.

But whatever, it's not gonna happen.

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