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Your viewpoint is "unpopular" because it's entirely anecdotal and survivor bias (you're posting here indicates you are at least not in a pure survival state).
by r00fus 7y ago
Your viewpoint is "unpopular" because it's entirely anecdotal and survivor bias (you're posting here indicates you are at least not in a pure survival state).
Taking one's "common sense" anecdotes and applying them to society as a whole is where things get problematic. For the latter you need data and analysis to guide you as well as common sense.
- umvi 7y agoUBI is an unproven pie-in-the-sky pipe dream with no strong evidence in its favor (since it has never been adopted, at scale, by a nation or city-state). All of the UBI studies and experiments are highly controlled, small scale, and don't take into account human behavior that happen in real life (greed). Let's see some UBI experiments that fail for once by telling the participants to take advantage of each other however they can, richest man at the end wins. Shouldn't that make UBI unpopular as well? Anecdotal evidence is better than no evidence.
- r00fus 7y ago> UBI is an unproven pie-in-the-sky pipe dream with no strong evidence in its favor The facts differ with your opinion [1]. > Anecdotal evidence is better than no evidence. This attitude is likely what leads to mass adoption of conspiracy theories. Not all of which are false, but most are missing key facts and/or context. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_income_pilots#Madhya_Pradesh,_India https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_income_pilots#Madhya_Pra...