• abraxas@sh.itjust.works
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      1 year ago

      Without capitalism, we don’t really need UBI because we can just go more socialist.

      You don’t need “more money” if society guarantees your quality of life with no strings attached.

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      1 year ago

      I’m fairly confident that corporations would argue that corporations are people, and therefore should get their allotment of UBI at a rate of one full income per stock share, and they’d probably win that argument too, considering the state of our legislature. Then they would argue that actual people getting their share of UBI is harming corporate profits and get UBI cancelled for everyone except the largest corporations. We still have land reaping subsidies not to grow crops from the New Deal, and all that land has made its way into the hands of the wealthy.