What do you guys think of Universal Basic Income?
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Elijah Lee
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Jace Myers
Capitalism's way of covering up the problems automation is creating
Adam Anderson
it's okay/10
At least it will alleviate some of the suffering of capitalism but not the root issues (eg the environment, power will still concentrate at the top)
It's about as likely to happen as proletarian revolution so we might as well just push for real communism instead
Jonathan Howard
Another tactic to obfuscate class consciousness.
Austin Wright
It's welfare that works, so it's certainly a lesser of evils.
Carter Gray
Do you think so?
I'm too fucking dumb to consider the economic consequences of universal basic income, but isn't it very easy to rationalise on the basis of capitalist logic itself?
Liam Moore
I don't support it. Capitalism can keep going for a while if they ever implemented anything like that. At this point I doubt it can last 20 years. We're at the breaking point already.
Angel Powell
A good idea and something that will be necessary even under socialism. The idea that it will retard the growth of socialism is nonsense.
Jeremiah Rodriguez
Universal Basic Income is just welfare with a different name.
Thomas Watson
Well, I mean I can't say for sure, but for all the economic policy wonks that are for it, the real power brokers hate taxes and like being on top. They like the labour surplus and the desperation of the working classes. Plus they would probably fear this was creeping socialism. I don't really think that basic income is very likely to happen, at least in the short-mid term. And if we spend 20-30 years debating over it the world will be screwed by then anyway.