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Think of it: The government prints more money or perhaps — god forbid — it taxes some corporate profits, then it showers the cash down on the people so they can continue to spend. As a result, more and more capital accumulates at the top. And with that capital comes more power to dictate the terms governing human existence.
UBI really just turns us from stakeholders or even citizens to mere consumers.
Meanwhile, UBI also obviates the need for people to consider true alternatives to living lives as passive consumers. Solutions like platform cooperatives, alternative currencies, favor banks, or employee-owned businesses, which actually threaten the status quo under which extractive monopolies have thrived, will seem unnecessary. Why bother signing up for the revolution if our bellies are full? Or just full enough?
Under the guise of compassion, UBI really just turns us from stakeholders or even citizens to mere consumers. Once the ability to create or exchange value is stripped from us, all we can do with every consumptive act is deliver more power to people who can finally, without any exaggeration, be called our corporate overlords.
No, income is nothing but a booby prize. If we're going to get a handout, we should demand not an allowance but assets. That's right: an ownership stake.
https://medium.com/s/powertrip/universal-basic-income-is-silicon-valleys-latest-scam-fd3e130b69a0
(Score: 3, Interesting) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Monday October 15 2018, @07:42AM (4 children)
... UBI will free us all up to pursue our creative interests. I think he must have a trust fund or something because he does alright despite never having had a job in the sixteen years I've known him.
However lots of people if they had UBI would never get out of bed. They'd just put a palette load of Cheetohs next to their beds then hook up their TV to their alarm clock.
Me if I had UBI I'd do nothing but write [warplife.com].
Yes I Have No Bananas. [gofundme.com]
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 15 2018, @09:43AM
Working-eating-sleeping-repeat pattern ain't that much different from that, except that you are also exhausted all the time.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 15 2018, @11:14PM (2 children)
That is incredibly naive. I've been unemployed, and it was fun for a little bit goofing off doing nothing productive aside from job searching, but it wore off quick. People want to be useful, sitting in bed all day eating cheetos sounds fun for one day. One.
What kind of bullshit is this anyway? You already have access to enough social programs you could do that... Is that AC who shit talks you all the time right about your persona being a lie? Why did you create soggy jobs if you only want to eat cheetos in bed?
(Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Tuesday October 16 2018, @12:47AM
-lessness on my own projects, but some people I know
I work like a demon it's just that I don't always get paid for it
Yes I Have No Bananas. [gofundme.com]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 16 2018, @06:16AM
After that, you'll need weed to go with your bed and cheetos.