why is this shit being sold to me by every neoliberal shill. Something seems shady about it. I doubt it will work. What are your opinions anons?
REDPILL ME ON UBI
Dominic Reyes
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Easton Long
Jews want to create an even more compliant populace to fatten up and have them consume their goods. Due to capitalists being cheap they’re making the surplus population superfluous so now they’ll pay them just to live and consume until we hit Calhoun’s rat utopia levels of fun. Niggers will multiply with free money, as will all sorts of other filth
Ethan King
It would be the one time that automation would reduce the amount of people working for government and make things more efficient.
Obviously the big-government™ doesn't like it.
Justin Powell
Whether it's good or bad is a matter of execution.
UBI that guarantees people food, housing, some spending money, etc without other costs to them is an improvement (but not going to happen).
UBI that gives you some cash but also raises regressive consumption taxes is bad (this is what silicon valley wants).
Henry Jenkins
This, basically. At best, it's an extension of other supports such as welfare, pensions, and minimum wage, coupled to other crucial reforms such as a job guarantee. At worst, it's the abolition of all other poverty mitigation, replacing them with a sub-poverty wage used as a subsidy to shady employers so they can stop paying people in actual money, and restore the truck system of indenture to create a permanent underclass of quasi-employed.
Alexander Collins
Because they hate the poor. The appeal of UBI is that it will replace every other kind of social support, the poorest recipient will get the same amount as some rich fuck. This is why they like it, because they can say that they are helping without having to worry about social mobility.
Kevin Butler
Next thing you’ll tell me is that paying someone a wage for worker is “anti-worker” or that slavery is inhumane even though your master provides you with free food, clothes and a place to sleep
Jacob Watson
Elon Musk even admitted that the only advantage of his "hyperloop" compared to conventional metros, the advantage that outweighs all apparent disadvantages, is that he does not have to share the space with poor people.
Charles Bell
They don't want to give them free money. They want to also raise the effective price of consumption. It provides the illusion of free money or more purchasing power, when in reality the purchasing power drops. The effect is raising the level of exploitation at the consumer end, driving up profits and economic activity a bit more. But it's unsustainable because people are going to realize that they have to re-budget to account for the higher cost of living (taxes included) and we'll end up right back where we started (worse really) after maybe a few months. This is more or less emergency life support for capitalism, since we're already past the point where creating actual (new) social programs would force us to raise taxes on corporations to the point that it would drop the rate of profit low enough that the system fails. It's why you've got austerity being pushed so hard, because the bourgeoisie are at least self-aware enough to realize that if they can't boost profits soon (before the next crash is probably the deadline), the system will go down too hard to recover from.
Matthew Lewis
UBI is seen as a substitute for an increase in minimum wage or various welfare programs. While that alone doesn't make it bad, assuming it doesn't come with slashing wages, the intention is to shift away conflict from the point of exploitation and into the halls of government. The goal for neoliberal shills is to damage any worker's movement and solidify the state as the sole avenue of protest.