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How do you feel about the idea of a Universal Basic Income (UBI)? 1. Strongly in favor 2. Somewhat in favor 3. Neutral or undecided 4. Somewhat against 5. Strongly against Question by @ba https://i.imgur.com/wD15gSJ.png
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Cassie Heart
@cassie
5 True universal basic income implies a post-scarcity future, which if attained, rules the concept of currency useless anyway. Anything else is attempted socialism with extra steps and extra consequences/opportunities for grift.
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Agost Biro
@agostbiro
Tbh what I like about UBI is that it’s socialism *without* extra steps, but with uniform access to grift (as opposed to typical socialism that provides grift for a privileged class).
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Cassie Heart
@cassie
If you strip all forms of welfare and substitute with UBI, you would have an asymmetry once again, as people have different capital needs (think caretakers for the disabled, eyewear for poor vision, cars in rural areas to get around vs cities where it isn’t always necessary). How do you correct for these with UBI?
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