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Re:Mark Zuckerberg doubles down on universal basic income af... by TheAdamAndChe on Wednesday July 05, 2017 @07:50PM (#14707142)
Socialism is a spectrum. We have a socialized public transportation infrastructure, socialized power industries, socialized water and sewage industries, and a lot more, yet most people don't complain about that. UBI doesn't designate how peoples' income is used, it merely provides a baseline income to facilitate survival at least.
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Re:Mark Zuckerberg doubles down on universal basic income af... by ryanx435 on Thursday July 06, 2017 @02:00AM (#14708436)
Are you really making the argument that government provided services are socialism lite?

So I guess the Romans were socialists then with their aquaducts.

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Re:Mark Zuckerberg doubles down on universal basic income af... by Broken_Hippo on Thursday July 06, 2017 @04:46AM (#14708965)
Yes, really, they are. And I'm not sure why this stuff is so surprising: one of the strong facets of scandinavian-style socialism is the government services and safety net. Single payer healthcare is often villified as "socialized health care".

I'm pretty sure UBI and healthcare fit into the spectrum.

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Re:Mark Zuckerberg doubles down on universal basic income af... by arethuza on Thursday July 06, 2017 @04:19AM (#14708887)
Services like the UK NHS are certainly regarded as a form of socialism, as Aneurin Bevan NHS found said:

"A free health service is pure Socialism and as such it is opposed to the hedonism of capitalist society."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aneurin_Bevan

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