Arkouda

If you did work in some reasonable proportion of married couples, it might get close to break even. Then remember that CPP, OAS and EI all disappear, and whatever funds they have would contribute to UBI. CPP at max draw by itself is almost as much UBI.

Couples should not receive less under a Universal Basic Income. The point of UBI is every individual receives the same payment regardless of their potential status'.

Then, for people that also have some other form of income, some quantity of the UBI would be taxed back.

This is not UBI. The point of UBI is to be the basic income separate from working income, and not impacted by what one makes.

I’m not saying that it really does scale up, but your analysis is overly simplistic.

Feel free to provide all of your own data and analysis to demonstrate your assertion.

UBI means a net tax reduction, with clear quality of life improvements, as long as the obvious social spending programs are eliminated. The higher the UBI, the more programs are obvious elimination candidates.

Combined, what is the total cost of all of those programs?

UBI is simply tax credits offsetting tax debits

UBI is a payment made to every eligible person, regardless of any status including wealth, every month.

UBI always costs 0. Just net credits and debits that equal 0. Drastic discretionary budget savings means net tax cuts.

With the numbers I ran the cost is $555,687,356,784 per year with the current population to pay for the program using the Ontario studies payment model.

I’ve seen way too many couples (married or otherwise) that influence each other to vote Trump and other populists to believe that you can single out loneliness as a main cause of the rise of the far right

The plural of anecdote is not data.

Lonely single males are on the rise, sure, and it’s a problem that needs dealing...

Loneliness is on the rise regardless of sex. This isn't about just males.

but i’d wager most of those 3 million new single people are mostly old folk, since Germany’s populatin has been aging rapidly in the past decades.

The population most likely to be alone, isolated, and depressed are the "old folk" you speak of. This isn't just about sad young people.

Indigenous tribes in Canada have a legal right to separate governance and self-determination, and should use it if they want to have full control of their lands.

From what I have read there isn't any legitimate brain training apps for the average person. I know there are apps out there to help with specific disorders and things like that having some positive results, but everything I have seen on brain training shows little benefit from it, and it is really just a way to make yourself feel like you are doing something from what I can tell.

That being said, as someone with a bad memory, keeping a detailed journal and writing important or interesting things down when they happen help me remember things much better. If you can say what you want to remember out loud that is even better because it is another way to solidify what you are trying to remember.

A trick my counselor taught me is to Journal before bed, read what you wrote when you are finished, and then go to sleep. This is supposed to help with long term memory of what you wrote down, and I have seen improvement doing this with my long term memory.

Classic rock.

mainNumber = 10000
count = 0

def addNumber():
    global mainNumber
    if mainNumber >= 0:
        mainNumber += 10
    if mainNumber >= 9:
        mainNumber += 7
    else:
        mainNumber += 13

def subNumber():
    global mainNumber
    if mainNumber >= 10:
        mainNumber -= 6
    elif mainNumber >= 100:
        mainNumber -= 56
    elif mainNumber >= 1000:
        mainNumber -= 560
    else:
        mainNumber -= 2

def multNumber():
    global mainNumber
    if mainNumber <= 100:
        mainNumber = mainNumber * 2
    else:
        mainNumber = mainNumber * 3

def divNumber():
    global mainNumber
    if mainNumber > 1000:
        mainNumber = mainNumber / 5
    if mainNumber < 1000:
        mainNumber = mainNumber / 3
    if mainNumber < 0:
        mainNumber = mainNumber * -1

while mainNumber != 1:
    count += 1
    addNumber()
    subNumber()
    multNumber()
    divNumber()
    print(mainNumber)
    if count == 1000:
        break

This is not the most interesting script in the world, I made it to practice while loops that I absolutely sucked at and see what funky things happen.

This script does nothing if you put in mainNumber = 1 for obvious reasons, but if you put in 2-21 it will evaluate to 21.99999999999999, 22 evaluates to 22 1000 times, and mainNumber = 23 or higher evaluates to 22.00000000000001.

I have not found a whole number that doesn't follow this pattern yet (Truthfully haven't dug as far as I would like) but it is interesting how this little practice script did something like this when I was just messing around.

20.6% of the population is living in isolated conditions. 20.8% of the popular vote went to the far-right AFD party.

This is why we need resources put into the "loneliness epidemic". Angry and sad people are really easy to make into extremists, and this is evident Globally.

I am now curious if single households and vote percentages stay similar in other countries as well. If anyone has data on this I would like to see it.

Edit:

Found some data if anyone else is interested. I likely won't be digging too much further but if anyone can find a Low single household percentage to a high far right percentage of vote that would be most helpful. What I found is High single households and high far right votes so far.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_number_of_households

https://www.politico.eu/article/france-left-wing-marine-le-pen-far-right-national-rally-jordan-bardella-seats-new-popular-front/

https://www.politico.eu/article/belgium-far-right-election-extremist-landslide-elections-in-europe-results-2024/

https://www.politico.eu/article/far-right-also-won-sunday-election-europe-romania-portugal-poland/