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Because people are trained by the system to be pissed off at everything and see topics like UBI to be a fight between good and evil. I'm mostly against UBI if
by ravenstine 7y ago
Because people are trained by the system to be pissed off at everything and see topics like UBI to be a fight between good and evil. I'm mostly against UBI if we can avoid it, but when I have this discussion with people who support it, both offline and online, they assume that I'm cruel and that I don't want to help people. (If only some of them understood the irony of their statements)
Politics has always generated anger, but I think there'd be less visceral hostility if people stopped reading Twitter and didn't watch MSNBC day in and day out.
- thatcat 7y agoThe greater inequality becomes the greater the anger there will be, media acts to redirect that anger into a million little grievances. UBI addresses the fact that we can't avoid it, power has been concentrated to the point that it will not diffuse by natural market forces.