Canada can end poverty and shrink inequality by adding an annual basic income of $22K, new report says

I feel like we have a class of people in this country who are going through horrific suffereing in silence, and people are ignoring it, pretending its impossible, pretending it must be their fault, and acting like they are stupid, lazy, or irresponsible, when in truth its just nearly impossible to function when you have no money, there aren't a lot of jobs that are paying well, and the cost of everything is getting crushing.

Watching those guys make fun of people, calling them dumb and saying they'd just blow money if they had it rather than that they would feed and cloth themselves got me thinking.

I've been developing technologies with the aim of improving the human condition for low cost...when I'm starting to think I should have been devoting myself to under 50$ do it yourself lethal weaponry to even the economic playing field. People stop laughing when a homeless person possesses the means to use infrared lazers to set those fancy ass mansions on fire, employers would be a whole lot more likely to rethink the minimum wage if we had lithium ion powered compressed guns capable of using rocks off the ground to blow a baseball sized hole through peoples heads.

Maybe I've just been thinking of the wrong technology to develop and distribute.

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