Moving to Guaranteed Basic Income
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@scottalanmiller said in Moving to Guaranteed Basic Income:
Europe has "lots of cool stuff" in a really small space. But if you compare Africa or South America, you get the opposite effect... even more distance between "things", and way more difficulty traversing the distances compared to the US. Focusing on Europe gives a very, very false view of the world in general. Europe is the most extreme "lots of cool stuff in a small space" on the planet, and even there it shows that we have to work hard to make it seem so easy to get from thing to thing.
But if you take the average, rather than the extreme, it paints a completely different picture.
I'm guessing that citizens of Africa and S America "Scott travel" even less than Americans though.
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@Dashrender said in Moving to Guaranteed Basic Income:
@scottalanmiller said in Moving to Guaranteed Basic Income:
Europe has "lots of cool stuff" in a really small space. But if you compare Africa or South America, you get the opposite effect... even more distance between "things", and way more difficulty traversing the distances compared to the US. Focusing on Europe gives a very, very false view of the world in general. Europe is the most extreme "lots of cool stuff in a small space" on the planet, and even there it shows that we have to work hard to make it seem so easy to get from thing to thing.
But if you take the average, rather than the extreme, it paints a completely different picture.
I'm guessing that citizens of Africa and S America "Scott travel" even less than Americans though.
I like when you define "normal things" as "Scott stuff". It's like saying I'm the gold standard for common sense and normal usage.
Those places are known to travel more than Americans that are affluent enough to do so. When you remove poverty as the barrier, their globalization almost always beats ours.
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For example, New Zealand does international travel 250% more than the US does, while earning less!
Canada does 500% more, while earning less (and often having further to go.)
Australia does 100% more, while earning less (and like New Zealand, having no driving borders!)
All three of those are more physically isolated than the US.
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@Dashrender outbound trip means leaving the country.
