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Universal Basic Income is a neoliberal plot to make you poorer

• visarga 9y ago
  I think it is wrong to solve this problem by a state issued UBI. It puts people at a disadvantage. Instead, we should give people the means of production, empower them to rely on themselves. Instead of UBI, self reliance should be maximized at all levels - personal, family, city and state. For example, a community of people that have enough land at their disposal can be self sufficient. They don't need UBI because they have something better than that - the power to provide for themselves. At a larger scale, a city might organize as to maximize self sufficiency, reducing imports and dependence on external factors. This can be achieved by investing in green energy, local industry, education and so on. New technologies such as 3d printing, agro-bots, self driving cars, drones and solar panels would contribute a long way towards self sufficiency. Not to mention that in a community where most adults are unemployed, they still have work to do - child care, education, food preparation, cleaning, house building and repair, medical care and many other tasks can be achieved by a community without external help - and generate lots of jobs. When corporations don't give us jobs, we can work for ourselves. That job is always ours. We just need to have access to the means of work.
• Mz 9y ago
  I am not for Basic Income. I think it is a bad idea. But, you aren't likely to win people over by calling it a neoliberal plot.
• logronoide 9y ago
  So the main reason to be against UBI is that people is not smart enough to manage the income for themselves, but the states and governments can do it better. That sounds very much like some dictatorial regimes at both right and left extremes.
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