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That is not the premise on which UBI is built. If I had to pick just one it would be that we have more productive capacity than we need, so threatening people w
by shkkmo 6y ago
That is not the premise on which UBI is built. If I had to pick just one it would be that we have more productive capacity than we need, so threatening people with death (your words) to be productive is no longer necessary.
- chii 6y ago> we have more productive capacity than we need i'm not convinced that this is true, except with very basic necessities like food and water, and even then, those require a lot of energy to produce, and those aren't free yet since science hasn't discovered cheap or free energy yet.
- shkkmo 6y agoWe have distribution and allocation problems, but we definitely have sufficient productive capacity to provide a reasonable standard of living. Even if you pick a standard of living that makes this premise not true, this is still the primary motivating premise for UBI. This is why UBI is so closely linked with the rise of Automation to a point where there simply won't be enough jobs to retrain people to do.