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UBI is meant to be a gambit to distract us from seeing that the playing field is so heavily tilted against everyone but the very rich and fortunate. the rich bu
by clairity 6y ago
UBI is meant to be a gambit to distract us from seeing that the playing field is so heavily tilted against everyone but the very rich and fortunate. the rich buy this diversion by periodically sliding some pennies down to the rest of us on the other end, while patting themselves on the back for doing such a magnanimous thing.
what we really need to do is bring transparency and fairness to labor markets, and squeeze rentiers and financiers, so that we can start to tilt that playing field back to where innovators can innovate in all sorts of directions, not just in the ones deigned to make the rich even richer.
- delfinom 6y agoYea I really fail to see how UBI addresses the real elephants in the room. Mega landlords, investor firms hoarding real estate, and generally "unspoken collusion" where prices will only go up and they'll let rentals sit empty for years. Just throwing UBI money at people now just sits the minimum they can jack rental prices up. And we are back to square one with the rich being richer.
- 3131s 6y agoThis argument gets made over and over, never with any logic attached to it.