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>UBI, just another socialist way to subjugate people. Seems preferable to endless wage slavery at the behest of unaccountable corporations run by billionaire o
by na85 5y ago
>UBI, just another socialist way to subjugate people.
Seems preferable to endless wage slavery at the behest of unaccountable corporations run by billionaire oligarchs.
If the choice is between driving a delivery truck and having to piss in a bottle versus a UBI and upsetting libertarians, I know which one I'd choose.
>When a right requires an obligation to do something by a third party through the use of force by the state, then it is not a right, it's a priviledge.
What "privilege" are you referring to here?
>How are you going to pay for the UBI? through taxes and inflation, which is the worst kind of tax.
Part of the allure of a UBI is that society could do away with separate welfare programs and such, which is probably more efficient from a reduction of bureaucracy standpoint, since you no longer have to have that silo in your government.
- AnimalMuppet 5y agoIf the choice is between driving a truck (even with the bottle) and the "Maduro diet" in Venezuela, a lot of us would probably pick the truck and the bottle. The failure mode of socialism is really unpleasant. "Wage slavery" doesn't come close. The argument you should be making is why Europe's UBI proposal won't wind up at Venezuela. Calling capitalism "wage slavery" isn't how you do that.