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IMHO the basic fallacy of this essay is that ideology is not reality. It sets the goal to be communism as classically envisioned(worker's paradise), and only so
by chipsy 11y ago
IMHO the basic fallacy of this essay is that ideology is not reality. It sets the goal to be communism as classically envisioned(worker's paradise), and only some people are absolutely convinced that that's the culture they want. We still largely have a strong belief in private property, for example.
In making this case, the author raises a bunch of bogeyman images of everything else being sacrificed on the altar of UBI. This is a paranoia tactic. The real exchanges made are done at the level of individual politicians horse-trading against rivals and various interest groups. It's possible for something to be popular enough that capital is told to go get dunked, despite all its other advantages, because the alternative is political suicide. It doesn't happen often, but this is one of those issues that captures people's imagination in a big way.
- jjoonathan 11y agoNot only that, but its primary objection is buried towards the end, receives a tiny fraction of the essay's length, and so thoroughly lacks originality that it has literally driven people in the opposite direction (I originally went searching for other schools of economic thought because I didn't believe the "jobs will appear" mantra, not the other way around). It feels like a student essay where the author has a word quota but no actual point so instead they just aimlessly wander along tangents until they pass the "finish line."
- Absentinsomniac 11y agoMost of this thing reads more like an argument for than against.
- Umn55 11y agoPerhaps you should look at the data... Correct. US distribution of wealth https://imgur.com/a/FShfb https://imgur.com/a/FShfb http://www2.ucsc.edu/whorulesamerica/power/wealth.html http://www2.ucsc.edu/whorulesamerica/power/wealth.html