>You clearly didn't live in the UK or France for very long. Military?

I lived in the UK for 40 years. France for a little under 1 year. Now 3 years here in the US.

The "data" proves me wrong, huh? I posted earlier some metrics for you. Median income, 20% higher (massively moreso with recent changes to the US/UK exchange rate). Cost of housing lower. Cost of cars, lower. Gas - half price. Taxes - lower. Sales taxes - lower, and sometimes don't exist.

The list goes on and on. If you have a decent job, the US is a far better place to live than the UK.

>But they are not comparable in the sense that all have more or less equal standards of living. The standard of living in the US is unequivocally the worst of the three.

What the in the absolute fuck are you talking about. For whom?

I live in the US. I have lived in the UK. I have lived in France. The best quality of life for most people is definitely in the US, especially for those with a decent job.

>The UK, on the other hand, has the NHS.

Holy shit dude. Ever lived there? I moved to the US, and I prefer the healthcare here. Yes it's expensive, but at least I actually get some. Unlike on the NHS.

The NHS is great for emergencies and huge events, and absolutely terrible for anything else.

>Comparing these nations reveals the stark reality that citizens in America have it tangibly worse

How the fuck do you get there? Land and homes are cheaper, median wages are 20% or more high, taxes are lower. Healthcare expenditure is about the ONLY metric by which the US is worse for most people.

>Poverty is an emergency

Poverty is not an emergency. It's always been around, it always will be around. What constitutes poverty changes over time.

Someone in poverty in the UK today has far more goods, diverse foods, communications, a better home, access to better services and better healthcare and better education than someone who was well above the poverty line a couple of generations ago.

>But the biggest argument for UBI is our current socioeconomic collapse.

I'm not sure who "our" is in your sentence, but "we" in the countries I've lived in (the UK and the US and France) seem to have some pretty insane quality of life for most people undergoing a socioeconomic collapse!

Like with any automation it will take years - probably decades - for enough equipment to be manufactured to put even 80% of human drivers out of work.

New trucks and complex conversion kits for existing trucks don't just get made in their hundreds of thousands overnight. In addition, many trucks will be too old to be compatible with conversion kits.

Ultimately, there will be a long, slow decline of human drivers during which we can retrain them to other professions. I do support UBI, and adult retraining credits, but this idea that any new technology is a sudden emergency for humanity is just alarmist.

This has both associates and masters in it. I'd agree with your statement if it was just associates.

The average of grad students is in their 30s, though restricting to just masters would bring that down.

She's being hypocritical and hypersensitive. You could have phrased it better (and should have) but she overreacted.