If your job stops paying you then you can find a new job. If your government stops paying you, you can’t find a new citizenship. A world where work is replace

If your job stops paying you then you can find a new job. If your government stops paying you, you can’t find a new citizenship. A world where work is replaced by UBI is not a utopia. It’s a dystopia where the government controls if you can eat today. In which politicians divide and conquer by differentially giving and denying nutrition to different groups in order to gain votes. Give me a corporate hellscape any day of the week over that. UBI is one of those “semantic stop signs” where people just stop thinking whenever it is mentioned. The term is a stand-in for whatever utopian society the user has in mind. But the implications of UBI as a policy are completely contrary to the stated goals of the users of the term.