Fine, but it would lift a burden from around people's necks and literally improve the lives of so many. Sure it's not socialism, but what's wrong with it in the mean time?
Welfare/dole money isn't socialism either, but I doubt you could find a leftist who would agree with taking it away, so why the rage against UBI, which is literally a universal welfare and isn't means tested either, removing the power of bureacracy.
Imagine the impact on alleviating mental health alone
it's a stopgap, an attempt by capitalists to kick the can down the road to stave off the inevitable instability and unrest prior to political upheavel.
Isaac Ortiz
its just a neolib privatization scheme and it will inevitably lead to gross social control. all the yang gangers fail to realize that to get that 1k you're going to have to be on the good citizen list and stop posting mean things about corporations and minorities
Lincoln Gray
It makes the working class directly dependant on the state, leaving open the possibility of more aggressive policing and surveillance of the masses (similary to chinese social score, but for the interest of the ruling class). This already happens in most welfare states, as in, if you try and dissent, you get banned from state welfare and are bound to life in poverty, because of inflation of rent and commodities caused by inflation.
Gabriel Howard
It would be cool if people could just have money, and not have to worry. Everything else that came after would be because you want, not because you must.
Christopher Taylor
I mean "caused by redistribution". Because of gentrification, you would see the emergence of "social ghettos", for the capital dissenters.
Kevin Gomez
It's a marketization scheme and markets are cancerous. It's also an attempt to gut already existing entitlements which is bad.
