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Socialism is community ownership of resources. UBI is not socialism. It is income redistribution. Your morals are very strange if they don't include care for o
by noelwelsh 1y ago
Socialism is community ownership of resources. UBI is not socialism. It is income redistribution.
Your morals are very strange if they don't include care for others.
- _9ptr 1y agoUBI is not about "care". That's just the typical left-wing compassion framing. I don't want to abolish all taxes, I'm not a libertarian. But giving away the money you took from somebody else needs a justification (for example to pay for the roads). And I find "income redistribution" for the sake of it not an acceptable goal.
- ryandrake 1y agoWhy is paying for roads justifiable, but providing people a safety net not justifiable?
- Workaccount2 1y agoBecause people don't treat it as a "safety net" and instead use it as a "living net". There is some contingent of people who will just not participate in society no matter what. So the question becomes where do we set the bar - the lower this bar, the smaller that contingent.