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UBI in theory means that everyone in the world should receive a modest income (in the order of $2/day). This is something that I would support. UBI proposals i
by Aunche 4y ago
UBI in theory means that everyone in the world should receive a modest income (in the order of $2/day). This is something that I would support.
UBI proposals in practice means that an exclusive in-group gets gets the wages the comfortable middle class wages for free and outsource all their work to an out-group that doesn't qualify for UBI. Working conditions for the out-group are slow to improve because they have very little political power. Meanwhile, the in-group stagnates and becomes completely dependent foreign work paid for by free money. This is exactly is what happens in the Gulf oil nations.
- yadoomerta 4y agoWhat do you expect someone living in America to do with $2 a day ?? UBI doen't have to be global, though ideally it would be, it can have a huge good for people working in exploitive jobs or doing make-work, freeing them to contribute and volunteer as they see fit. But only if it's enough to actually live on
- neon_electro 4y agoU in UBI is Universal. Everyone gets it, those that make money pay extra in taxes such that it nets out to $0 beyond a certain income level. Is that difficult to conceptualize?