Placeholder Image

字幕列表 影片播放

  • America!

  • We are the richest country on earth, and indeed the richest civilization that has ever existed.

  • We put a man on the moon!

  • We invented the internet, the assembly line, and the airplane.

  • More billionaires live here than anywhere else on earth.

  • And we are widely acknowledged as being the most powerful single nation around.

  • But for a country so wealthy and so innovative, our living standards arenot that great.

  • Our infant mortality and child poverty rates are among the highest in the developed world.

  • Americans can expect to live shorter and sicker lives,

  • compared with people living in many other rich democracies.

  • We have the highest incarceration rate in the world.

  • And of the ten richest countries, the United States comes in last in terms of mobility and opportunity.

  • The United States is so rich, and yet so many of its citizens remain impoverished.

  • There's a big idea out there that could help solve this.

  • It's called the universal basic income.

  • The government would give everyone, say, $500 or $1,000 a monthno strings attached,

  • sort of like a Social Security payment.

  • A basic income would help eliminate poverty, especially deep poverty and poverty among children.

  • It would give workers more bargaining power.

  • With that kind of safety net, people might become more entrepreneurial,

  • and take more risks. They might free themselves from abusive figures in their lives.

  • They might go back to school.

  • They might make more art.

  • They might choose to spend more time with their families, or take care of their elderly

  • relatives, or volunteer in their communities.

  • And economists think it is unlikely that many people would stop working.

  • Just look at lottery winners - 85% of them continue to work.

  • Studies even show that they might be more productive, healthier, happier,

  • and more cohesive as a society.

  • Most importantly: an UBI would give Americans basic security

  • and more control over in their lives.

  • There are some downsides to a UBI: It would cost a lot,

  • Though the United States is a relatively low-tax country right now and we could afford it,

  • it might lead some people to stop working, particularly older workers, younger workers,

  • and the parents of little kids.

  • It might create inflation, with prices rising since everybody would have more money to spend.

  • It also might grate against our deep-seated belief that nobody should get something for nothing.

  • The idea of a basic income isn't new.

  • It's been around for more than 500 years, with everybody from Martin Luther King Jr.

  • to Richard Nixon to Bill Gates supporting some version of it.

  • We are living in a time of great technological advancement and enormous abundance.

  • But poverty continues.

  • Some families have private inheritances, passing on their accumulated wealth.

  • A basic income would be like a social inheritance, sharing the wealth that this society has created

  • and eliminating deprivation for everybody.

America!

字幕與單字

單字即點即查 點擊單字可以查詢單字解釋

B1 中級 美國腔

為什麼美國應該提供全民基本收入? (Why the U.S. Should Provide Universal Basic Income)

  • 23 1
    王惟惟 發佈於 2021 年 01 月 14 日
影片單字