Re:A Year of Tech Solidarity
by alexandercrohde on Wednesday November 15, 2017 @11:22AM
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Not really right.
Anti-surveillance, anti-war, mildly anti-consumerist, mildly pro-immigration, mildly anti-religion, anti-nationalism, anti-monopoly, anti-drug-war, anti-1%
Right-wing politicians campaign on the exact opposite of all of these positions. It's not too different than libertarian, but right has almost nothing in common with libertarian anymore.
Re:A Year of Tech Solidarity
by peoplewindow on Wednesday November 15, 2017 @08:50AM
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Anything related to universal basic income? UBI is a hard left policy - it's essentially welfare+++
Re:A Year of Tech Solidarity
by dragonwriter on Wednesday November 15, 2017 @08:56AM
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Much of the support for UBI comes from a segment of the libertarian right which sees it as a way to eliminate welfare bureaucracy and regulation (not just regulation in the public benefit space, but also minimum wages and some others.)
It's not really a “hard left” policy, it's more a policy of pragmatic libertarians on both left and right, opposed by both dogmatic libertarians (because it remains a public intervention, if lighter-touch than the status quo policies it would displace immediately or over time) and those on the left and right with a stronger preference for government control and direction.
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14754772
[2] https://hn.algolia.com/?query=diversity&sort=byPopularity&pr...