No the minimum wage was bad enough now cleaners earn the same as some semi skilled

No

The green party pushed this in their manefesto before the last general election.

Basically, every single person gets a weekly payment. Everyone. The Queen, Richard Branson, The dole dosser living with his parents, the part-timer and mother of six kids in a council house, the old granny in a bungalow i mean absolutely fkn everyone regardless of status or position - 74 quid a week.

It would cost over 300 billion pounds a year, and the poorest would struggle like hell to survive, whilst the rich wouldn't even notice the extra.

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Cleaning requires skills, I know some grown men women that can't even wash dishes , it's either left with food stains or oily or both, and glasses must sparkle after its washed, that's why you wash it

Can you say, Weimar Republic?

not getting s**t everywhere when you use the bathroom is also a skill.
I didn't know this until i employed 'people'

Lots of talk of Universal Basic Income being introduced in the wake of the Coronavirus. It's already being proposed in both the UK and the US as a way to ease pressing financial concerns as more and more people are forced to isolate.

If that's in tandem with all rents and mortgages being suspended it could work

It would need to be and probably utility bills such as water, electric, gas, heating oil, etc as well.
I had a txt from my phone network this morning saying any data used to access NHS and certain other services will be free of charge and/or won't count towards customer's data limits/allowances.

Depends what it tastes like.

It shouldn't be all that hard to implement, maybe using NI numbers and automatic payments into a specified bank account, or something along those lines.

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IDS the other day said a UBI would disincentivise people to work. Thing is we want and need now..people who don't need to work to stay at home.
Also the powers that be wouldn't want it to be a success.

Mr Dunked-in Shit would say that wouldn't he.

http://www.bloomberg.com/amp/news/articles/2020-04-05/spanish-government-aims-to-roll-out-basic-income-soon

Spain is looking to roll out a UBI asap due to the coronavirus crisis, and wants to make it permanent even after the crisis is over.

I think with the rise of AI it's inevitable. But not yet . That's for the future. Just how it would be paid for I don't know

What a strange reply, minimum wage is needed 2 survive n plenty of ppl scrimp and scrape on that after paying bills, cleaners deserve more than minimum wage in my opinion, semi skilled should have higher wages if u think that thats a problem my sister is a cleaner in a hospital and doesnt get much over minimum wage all while cleaning covid-19 wards and they are told they dont need full PPE for their job

interesting, you'd think governments would have looked at the possible futures with automation and come out against it.
do they exist without a tax paying populace ?

I have no idea but AI is going to keep advancing, there's no stopping that. Some new system will have to evolve