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The idea that UBI will wipe away the ignorance and cultural dogma that keeps poor people poor is absurd. How many lottery winners hold on to their winnings? L
by nnfy 9y ago
The idea that UBI will wipe away the ignorance and cultural dogma that keeps poor people poor is absurd.
How many lottery winners hold on to their winnings?
Let's be realistic. If you give the uneducated poor free money, the only thing that will change is how much money they have to spend on junk food and dated electriconics.
UBI as a policy in a place like the U.S. is hopelessly niave. Our culture of poverty if the typical culture of ignorant poverty. I speak as someone who lived among the poor-hell, in high school I dated two women from the same trailer park, poverty in the U.S. is about getting mine, and often times about getting one over the man.
These aren't temporarily downtrodden future intellectuals. These are people who haven't understood education or work for generations. But, on the other hand, who are we to claim our culture is superior?
- gnaritas 9y ago> The idea that UBI will wipe away the ignorance and cultural dogma that keeps poor people poor is absurd. No one is saying that. > How many lottery winners hold on to their winnings? Not relevant. > Let's be realistic. If you give the uneducated poor free money, the only thing that will change is how much money they have to spend on junk food and dated electriconics. That's the point. UBI isn't welfare, it's not meant to rehabilitate people and make them into workers. If most people who get UBI choose to live off it and not work, and remain poor, fucking great, that's the whole point of the program, to reduce the working population down to those who actually want to work as there aren't going to be enough jobs for everyone and many people would choose not to work if they could. You just really do not understand what UBI is about, not at all.