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Author of OP's link here. Hi. I've previously written about our present welfare system in this article here: https://medium.com/basic-income/breaking-down-with

by 2noame 12y ago

Author of OP's link here. Hi. I've previously written about our present welfare system in this article here: https://medium.com/basic-income/breaking-down-without-a-spare-a271a6ef6f7e https://medium.com/basic-income/breaking-down-without-a-spar... Additionally, I've written about how much money we could be saving with UBI and why/how: https://medium.com/basic-income/universal-basic-income-as-the-social-vaccine-of-the-21st-century-d66dff39073 https://medium.com/basic-income/universal-basic-income-as-th... And here's an article that includes just how much we are spending on a whole lot of things as a society, and how UBI would reduce these costs: https://medium.com/@2noame/how-we-can-transform-americas-broken-economic-system-to-work-for-everyone-ddba38fc328a https://medium.com/@2noame/how-we-can-transform-americas-bro... This particular blog post of mine was purely an analogy made to make a single point.

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dragontamer 12y ago
Interesting, you wrote both the blog post and the medium.com article. I really do think you did a good job in the article, but your blog post is just... not very good honestly. I appreciate you getting back to me, but your blog post suffers from "false analogies". http://onegoodmove.org/fallacy/falsean.htm http://onegoodmove.org/fallacy/falsean.htm Its a common fallacy to make arguments from analogy. And honestly, it weakens your argument significantly compared to the article you wrote elsewhere. Arguments by analogy "feel" good because it sounds like you're getting the point across in fewer words. But really... you're preaching to the choir at best. An argument from analogy is only as strong as the connection between your analogy and reality. Unfortunately, talking about water jetpacks and occulus rifts break your analogy wide open. It is clear that you aren't talking about reality anymore, and the analogies barely serve their point when they're so disjointed to the reality on the ground. If you do take this argument form again in the future, please stick to something more real.

by 2noame 12y ago

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dragontamer 12y ago

Interesting, you wrote both the blog post and the medium.com article. I really do think you did a good job in the article, but your blog post is just... not very good honestly. I appreciate you getting back to me, but your blog post suffers from "false analogies". http://onegoodmove.org/fallacy/falsean.htm http://onegoodmove.org/fallacy/falsean.htm Its a common fallacy to make arguments from analogy. And honestly, it weakens your argument significantly compared to the article you wrote elsewhere. Arguments by analogy "feel" good because it sounds like you're getting the point across in fewer words. But really... you're preaching to the choir at best. An argument from analogy is only as strong as the connection between your analogy and reality. Unfortunately, talking about water jetpacks and occulus rifts break your analogy wide open. It is clear that you aren't talking about reality anymore, and the analogies barely serve their point when they're so disjointed to the reality on the ground. If you do take this argument form again in the future, please stick to something more real.