3 ms·

> Think about that fact for a moment through Martian eyes. Humans are the only species on planet Earth who have to pay to live here. Right, other species are j

• superstructBase 8y ago
  Yes, so we should be less like animals. People should be allowed to live without having to "earn a living" -- the daily struggle for survival would be abolished by UBI.
  • Joky 8y ago
    Actually I'm not against UBI, but I don't think that the martians argument about the money system was a good one: the current system is just much civilized than anything that existed before as far as I can tell. UBI may be part of the next evolutionary step of society, we'll see, but I'm slightly bothered that it relies on the comfort and the wealthiness of the "first world" built to the detriment of the "third world". I personally feel that "people should be allowed to live" would be more convincing to me if it was about worldwide inequality rather than UBI in westerner society.
• teledyn 8y ago
  Right. their territory, ie what they carved out, for free, and what they can catch, for free. Malthus, on the other hand, started the blight of economics that gave all Commons to some self-proclaimed 'king' who would then graciously sell it back to us for money with his picture on it.