<story><title>Ray Dalio says the global economy is under threat</title><url>https://www.ccn.com/billionaire-ray-dalio-world-economy-threat-jobs/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>anon1m0us</author><text>&amp;gt;He sees “transferring money to people who are unproductive” [universal basic income, UBI] as less optimal than finding a way for them to be productive.&lt;p&gt;Why can&amp;#x27;t we let the individual find a way to make themselves productive? And, why do they &lt;i&gt;need&lt;/i&gt; to be productive? Some of my best times in life are watching and playing games with my friends. Socializing. Loving people.&lt;p&gt;I, and most people I know, can look around and see things that need to be done. If our lives aren&amp;#x27;t so focused on paying the bills all the time, we can relax a bit and be creative.&lt;p&gt;I remember I used to get &lt;i&gt;great&lt;/i&gt; school lunches. I knew the cafeteria staff by name and they knew me because I went back for seconds and thirds and fourths... skinny as a bean pole. Lunches were made fresh every day. The staff were there at 6am cooking for the kids. Fresh bread. I used to love watching that dough bounce around in the industrial mixer. It was bigger than I was.&lt;p&gt;A decade after I was out of school, I saw one of the ladies and asked how the school lunches were. She said they don&amp;#x27;t get to make them anymore. The menus are decided in Washington DC now and they have very little control over what is cooked or eaten. Kids don&amp;#x27;t come back for seconds and thirds and fourths anymore.&lt;p&gt;The federal government took local control away from the schools and homogenized everything and basically ruined it from what I remember.&lt;p&gt;Why do we think the federal government knows better how to manage our day to day lives than we do ourselves? Get out of our kitchens and homes.&lt;p&gt;The government doesn&amp;#x27;t need to find a way for me to be productive. People who need to be productive to keep their sanity will find a way. They&amp;#x27;ll clean their bedrooms, volunteer in their communities. They won&amp;#x27;t be judged by what their job is, but rather, what they do for themselves and the people around them.&lt;p&gt;The need to grind out a day at the office or the shipyard or in the truck hauling cargo saps a person&amp;#x27;s freewill.&lt;p&gt;We need more freewill in the world.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mc32</author><text>&amp;gt;”The need to grind out a day at the office or the shipyard or in the truck hauling cargo saps a person&amp;#x27;s freewill.”&lt;p&gt;I’m not sure of that.&lt;p&gt;Couple of things.  I’ve worked with working class people.  They may complain about the job or the boss, but if they didn’t do one of those jobs, they’d feel less empowered.&lt;p&gt;I’ve heard people essentially say I don’t want to be on welfare but I can’t get a job.  So they&amp;#x27;d prefer a job to being on the dole.&lt;p&gt;Two, people with lots of time and nothing to do tend to just while away time, either in the form of any kind of entertainment or some times in counter productive activities.  Doing “make-work” actually gives people &lt;i&gt;some&lt;/i&gt; purpose.&lt;p&gt;I’m saying UBI will bring other unintended problems.  I think UBI could be like people who have dogs and give them all they need [like UBI] but don’t take them out for walks.  Work, any kind of work is like taking the dog out for a walk.</text></comment>
<story><title>Ray Dalio says the global economy is under threat</title><url>https://www.ccn.com/billionaire-ray-dalio-world-economy-threat-jobs/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>anon1m0us</author><text>&amp;gt;He sees “transferring money to people who are unproductive” [universal basic income, UBI] as less optimal than finding a way for them to be productive.&lt;p&gt;Why can&amp;#x27;t we let the individual find a way to make themselves productive? And, why do they &lt;i&gt;need&lt;/i&gt; to be productive? Some of my best times in life are watching and playing games with my friends. Socializing. Loving people.&lt;p&gt;I, and most people I know, can look around and see things that need to be done. If our lives aren&amp;#x27;t so focused on paying the bills all the time, we can relax a bit and be creative.&lt;p&gt;I remember I used to get &lt;i&gt;great&lt;/i&gt; school lunches. I knew the cafeteria staff by name and they knew me because I went back for seconds and thirds and fourths... skinny as a bean pole. Lunches were made fresh every day. The staff were there at 6am cooking for the kids. Fresh bread. I used to love watching that dough bounce around in the industrial mixer. It was bigger than I was.&lt;p&gt;A decade after I was out of school, I saw one of the ladies and asked how the school lunches were. She said they don&amp;#x27;t get to make them anymore. The menus are decided in Washington DC now and they have very little control over what is cooked or eaten. Kids don&amp;#x27;t come back for seconds and thirds and fourths anymore.&lt;p&gt;The federal government took local control away from the schools and homogenized everything and basically ruined it from what I remember.&lt;p&gt;Why do we think the federal government knows better how to manage our day to day lives than we do ourselves? Get out of our kitchens and homes.&lt;p&gt;The government doesn&amp;#x27;t need to find a way for me to be productive. People who need to be productive to keep their sanity will find a way. They&amp;#x27;ll clean their bedrooms, volunteer in their communities. They won&amp;#x27;t be judged by what their job is, but rather, what they do for themselves and the people around them.&lt;p&gt;The need to grind out a day at the office or the shipyard or in the truck hauling cargo saps a person&amp;#x27;s freewill.&lt;p&gt;We need more freewill in the world.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tarr11</author><text>&amp;gt; Despite the sharp wrangling that the National School Lunch Program often stirs up, the meals coming out of it are more nutritious — and a lot more adventurous — than they were 10 years ago. “It absolutely is a brighter day for school foods,” says Bettina Elias Siegel, a lawyer turned advocate and author of the book “Kid Food.”&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; A major federal study recently came to much the same conclusion, finding that school lunches have improved significantly since implementation of the 2010 Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act. And the schools with the healthiest menus have the greatest rates of student participation.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.washingtonpost.com&amp;#x2F;graphics&amp;#x2F;2019&amp;#x2F;food&amp;#x2F;school-lunches-in-america&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.washingtonpost.com&amp;#x2F;graphics&amp;#x2F;2019&amp;#x2F;food&amp;#x2F;school-lun...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>