3 ms·
Deep irony here, speaking as one of 'Thatcher's children'. Not really; there's a fair amount of support for a basic income from conservatives and libertarians,
by orangecat 11y ago
Deep irony here, speaking as one of 'Thatcher's children'.
Not really; there's a fair amount of support for a basic income from conservatives and libertarians, for good reason. We've decided that we aren't going to let people starve in the streets if they can't find a job. Given that, it makes much more sense to just give people money than to have a huge bureaucracy with dozens of programs trying to alleviate individual aspects of the problem of not having money.
- JackFr 11y agoThe social services bogeyman of present day conservatives is no longer the mythical 'welfare queen' but the extensive poverty industry taking their cut as the money sluices through the pipes.
- TheOtherHobbes 11y agoIn the UK a number of government funded orgs have admitted that they are: 1. Unreasonably expensive 2. A net negative for the social problem they're supposed to solve The underlying problem isn't poverty or lack of education. It's a complete collapse of public moral leadership since the 80s - not in the sexual sense, but in the business sense of "Fuck everyone in the world, because money." Politics and business have always been corrupt. But from the 30s to 60s you could still find good people trying to do good things. Now they're institutionally corrupt, and politics and business - especially finance, which is the de facto government in the US - have become industrial asshole factories. This is barbarism, and it can only lead to more barbarism.