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>Let’s just give them a UBI check and pretend everything is fine. That has nothing to do with anything being discussed here.

• Apocryphon 8y ago
  It does insofar that UBI is touted as the cutting-edge social panacea of these times, but is simply a wealth redistribution scheme that doesn't address the atomization issues plaguing our society. UBI alone won't save us- more solutions need to be pursued.
• jrs95 8y ago
  As the other comment under this said, it does in that UBI is taken as being the solution to the social issues largely stemming from technological change. But the problems are much broader than just automation and economics, and an economic solution isn’t going to help with the destabilization of families and offline communities which has really begun to accelerate along with globalization and the internet. In many ways even our politics has been poisoned by some of the negative aspects of this, and we haven’t made a meaningful adjustment in any area of this IMO.
• called_it 8y ago
  Not if you leave out the preceding sentences, or don't understand them.