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In times of plenty, such socialism works well. In times of struggle and famine, someone other than you gets to decide how resources are allocated. Your hard wor
by jimbob45 6y ago
In times of plenty, such socialism works well. In times of struggle and famine, someone other than you gets to decide how resources are allocated. Your hard work and instinct to survive no longer belongs to you at that point. Many today have only ever known times of plenty and think the USSR was a failure because of selfish leaders, not because there were genuinely hard decisions to make during struggle and famine.
You see the narrative today being that whites don’t deserve what they have. Whites don’t deserve their hard work because it was built on empire building and slavery and privilege. To me, this is being set up to cripple capitalism, pretending that the hard work capitalism encourages is somehow false or fake.
Yes, UBI would solve your problem in the short term. However, I think proponents of UBI are deviously attempting to downplay capitalism’s benefits and entirely hiding UBI’s drawbacks when society is no longer as well off (e.g. during wars)
- MauranKilom 6y ago> You see the narrative today being that whites don’t deserve what they have. I challenge you to find one post (with positive score) on HN with such a narrative. And besides, it's incredibly strange how you shoehorn race into this discussion. > entirely hiding UBI’s drawbacks when society is no longer as well off (e.g. during wars) So we should not have UBI during good times because if the nation collapses it would not work? I can come up with plenty of things that don't work when society is no longer well off, but it's unclear what bearing that has on whether they are solving problems in the present day...