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Anything related to universal basic income? UBI is a hard left policy - it's essentially welfare+++
by peoplewindow 9y ago
Anything related to universal basic income? UBI is a hard left policy - it's essentially welfare+++
- dragonwriter 9y agoMuch of the support for UBI comes from a segment of the libertarian right which sees it as a way to eliminate welfare bureaucracy and regulation (not just regulation in the public benefit space, but also minimum wages and some others.) It's not really a “hard left” policy, it's more a policy of pragmatic libertarians on both left and right, opposed by both dogmatic libertarians (because it remains a public intervention, if lighter-touch than the status quo policies it would displace immediately or over time) and those on the left and right with a stronger preference for government control and direction.