1. You can set the benefit wherever you feel comfortable, but I personally think in the $20-30k USD per person is the range we need to target. As to who all gets it, everyone. Otherwise it’s not really universal. And yes, the cost becomes large very quickly, because we’re talking about the entire population of the US. If we look at the lower end, we’re looking at roughly $20,000 * ~330,000,000 people = 20k * 330M = 20 * 330B = 6.6T = $6,600,000,000,000, or $6.6 trillion USD. The US GDP is ~$21 trillion, so we’d only need to […]
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