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and by replacing minimum wages it means work with a positive, but low, value per hour can still be offered that would otherwise be forbidden. So your utopian i
by Mz 9y ago
and by replacing minimum wages it means work with a positive, but low, value per hour can still be offered that would otherwise be forbidden.
So your utopian ideal for ending poverty is UBI plus slave wages for the 99 percent. I fail to see how this is in any way better than minimum wage jobs. At best, it is a new variation of minimum wage, only you don't make minimum wage by getting a minimum wage, you get it by having a UBI plus below minimum wage pay.
That proposition only makes me feel even more opposed to a UBI.
- dragonwriter 9y ago> So your utopian ideal I've never mentioned a utopian ideal. I addressed the false implication that UBI was somehow opposed to the availability of work. > for ending poverty Poverty can be mitigated, but not ended. > is UBI plus slave wages for the 99 percent. No, "slave wages" makes even metaphorical sense only in the sense that unmitigated capitalism provides economic coercion to work; a system with UBI doesn't share that features of unmitigated capitalism. Further, while replacing the minimum wage with UBI reduces the minimum value of jobs that can be offered, it reduces the pressure to accept low wage jobs, so low wages jobs are likely to accepted for experience or other reasons, but not economic coercion,