billion dollars to start and that sounds like a lot but keep in mind that we spent NUMBER_TOKEN billion dollars on military contracts in afghanistan and got literally nothing in return but death and devastation since the mid NUMBER_TOKENs the us army spent over NUMBER_TOKEN billion dollars on weapons that they never ended up using and even if we did use them what a waste we raise the military budget by tens of billions of dollars every year and we currently spend NUMBER_TOKEN billion dollars a year on our police system and i don't know if you noticed but those dudes mostly just shoot people so we could like double that number or triple the number or as this other proposal from the new york times figured out if we spent just NUMBER_TOKEN billion dollars a year we could give every baby six thousand seven hundred fifty dollars at birth and a yearly equity returns of eight percent that money would balloon to two million dollars by the time that baby needs to retire if we combine these two ideas and say gave every american NUMBER_TOKEN grand at birth you could have a couple hundred thousand dollars ready for you when you turn NUMBER_TOKEN followed by another few million to retire with you can even add money over time and make that number even higher in other words you know you know whenever some rich talks about being self-made with a little elbow grease smart choices and a NUMBER_TOKEN NUMBER_TOKEN loan from their parents well we could all be those rich taking selfies on jets making terrible haircut choices buying into an electric car company and pretending you started it we could all start our lives with an equal level of privilege and it would cost the government very little to do and yes if you're wondering at least one other country has tried this hungary has been doing baby bonds since NUMBER_TOKEN those bonds having since grown to NUMBER_TOKEN billion forints in that time that's like probably a lot at least it just seems weird that america always gets so concerned over headlines about how we're not making enough babies while simultaneously making parenthood a financial death sentence we can fix that easily in places like finland not only does every new parent get sent a government-issued kit filled with essential items like bathing and bedding products but they've made the act of having a baby as in your hospital stay and parental leave both extremely affordable and super comfortable maternity wards cost as much per day as a PROFANITY_TOKEN motel NUMBER_TOKEN but with the quality of a a way better hotel a super motel NUMBER_TOKEN or something i've never been in a nice place meanwhile back in hungary a mother of four or more simply doesn't have to pay income tax for life albeit for weird nationalism reasons the point here being that no one asked to be born and so wouldn't it be good to make life a little nicer on people especially if we're in a society that prioritizes family and reproduction as a weird goal like to feed the celestial child and the earth's core or whatever reason we're doing it and we can do that not by spending a butt ton of money but rather gaining the financial system we already have to guarantee that everyone regardless of who they are or where they were born gets an equal shot at life actual economic security that compounds from one generation to the next and what's even better we would do this by using the PROFANITY_TOKEN financial systems we invented for our PROFANITY_TOKEN money like all the people who want to scream about socialism or handouts should have exactly to say about this because it's just utilizing the tools they PROFANITY_TOKEN
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