SoylentNews is people
SoylentNews
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, Insightful) by c0lo on Monday October 15 2018, @12:52PM
Minor specific differences of people vs robots:
- they are obstinately refusing to eat directly from the energy socket and demand organic nutrients (soylent at a minimum)
- they are not willing to part with whatever money - umm... the "mean" to achieve might, influence or power - they (actually don't) have; so they are actually useless as a source for might, influence or power
- unless reigned by fear, they may be willing to violently revolt. And imposing that fear brings in cost
They might be as idiots as you describe.
In extreme: imagine a single human controlling the entire Earth, populated by robots but devoid of any other human being.
Isn't this the apotheosis of might and power and wealth?
But... does it still have any meaning?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford