whoelectroplateuntil,

How else are you supposed to stabilize a highly-developed postindustrial economy with increasingly rare opportunities to get ahead for most of the population? Didn’t you people read your Friedrich Hayek?

SwingingKoala,

Hayek was for private money, not infinite debt to pay for UBI?

lolcatnip,

Infinite debt? You’ve never heard of paying for things with taxes?

SwingingKoala,

Have you ever looked at a budget in your life?

lolcatnip,

Are you just chatting me up now? Because you’re certainly not addressing anything I said.

whoelectroplateuntil,

IDK, he seemed pretty clear when he said that “the assurance of a certain minimum income for everyone, or a sort of floor below which nobody need fall even when he [sic] is unable to take care of himself, appears not only to be a wholly legitimate protection against a common risk to all, but a necessary part of the Great Society in which the individual no longer has specific claims on the members of the particular small group into which he was born.”

SwingingKoala,

Social security isn’t UBI.

whoelectroplateuntil,

Sorry, what does “certain minimum income” mean in your native language?

MonkeMischief, (edited )

“Money isn’t a birthright” says political faction in favor of tax-free inheritance for its filthy rich members. More at 11:00.

EDIT: weird mobile correction typo

UnderpantsWeevil,
@UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world avatar

That’s different. Those inter-generational landlords went out and earned it.

Asafum,

Could you do what they did? No, I didn’t think so!

It’s not easy being born to the right family, if it was easy everyone would do it and it wouldn’t pay so well! Duhhhhhh

:P

BigMacHole,

I’m a Lifelong Republican and I LOVE how the Republican Party is a CHAMPION for the Working Class! Money is NOT a Birthright unless you’re already super rich and then it’s OK to suck at the Government’s Teat!

docAvid,

Lol I came so close to downvoting. You really need a /s in there.

xantoxis,

Survival is a birthright you absolute fucking vultures. We made money a requirement for that.

SkyeStarfall,

And it’s not like you can screw off into the forest to live a self-sufficient life either, because I’m pretty sure that’s illegal in most places in the world. If the forest isn’t already devoid of resources due to human activity that is.

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