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Re:Universal Basic Income Is Not Feasible by jadedhacker on Thursday April 26, 2018 @07:15PM (#16936859)
Why UBI is difficult to even make desirable: https://www.jacobinmag.com/2016/01/universal-basic-income-sw...

Alternative idea, a universal job guarantee: https://dsa-lsc.org/2017/09/30/why-socialist-job-guarantees-...

I'm still learning about this other take as UBI seems prima facie a good thing, but there are a number of severe flaws in the idea.

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Re:Universal Basic Income Is Not Feasible by icebraining on Thursday April 26, 2018 @07:45PM (#16937091)
Posting those two links is interesting, because as far as I can tell, they're essentially contradictory.

The first says UBI is not necessarily that great, because it might not free people from working, whereas the second says it's not great, because people will no longer work!

These two passages are particularly striking:

Jacobin: "The kind of freedom from work (...) that an LBI envisions is, in all likelihood, not compatible with capitalism’s requirements of profitability."

DSA-LSC: "With UBI (...) one's status (...) as a worker is tentative and subject to elimination."

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