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I always thought the point of basic income was so that you didn’t necessarily need every member of society employed in the traditional sense
by randomacct3847 8y ago
I always thought the point of basic income was so that you didn’t necessarily need every member of society employed in the traditional sense
- fucking_tragedy 8y agoUBI serves two purposes. The first is stopgap rhetoric to prevent socialist-inspired rhetoric from making popular gains as traditional employment is eroded away. The second is to point at UBI and go "See, if you give money to people who were made redundant in the labor market, they probably still won't be able to sell their labor" while doing everything to ignore the fact that the market has moved past certain people.