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Re:The principled and pragmatic case for a Universal Basic I... by crdoconnor on Wednesday May 04, 2016 @03:37PM (#11631069)
>The current system in America provides a disincentive to work.

It also artificially eliminates jobs that need to exist via austerity (e.g. not building necessary infrastructure), offshoring (moving manufacturing jobs abroad) and massive transfers of wealth to the already wealthy (e.g. wall street bailouts).

The techno-utopian notion of us approaching a post-work society glosses over these three things in a major way.

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