Universal Basic Income Is Superior to a $15 Minimum Wage (2019)

Re:Universal Basic Income Is Superior to a $15 Minimum Wage ... by aww_dang on Saturday January 30, 2021 @03:16PM (#25972556)

It appears as a variant of the 'check your privilege' argument. Everyone who disagrees with UBI, minimum wage increases is privileged and lacking empathy according to this generalization.

While the actual thread appears to be about incentives.

There are many who have worked entry level jobs who would object to UBI or minimum wage price fixing on purely economic terms.

There are also those who are unable to afford the current cost of living or gain employment due to interventions in the market. It wouldn't be difficult to unfairly characterize interventionists as insensitive to the plight of the poor.

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Re:Universal Basic Income Is Superior to a $15 Minimum Wage ... by gtsop on Friday February 05, 2021 @02:40PM (#26040338)

> Everyone who disagrees with UBI, minimum wage increases is privileged and lacking empathy according to this generalization.

First, I didn't make such a generalization and second, even if I did, you would have inverted the logic.

I said argument X comes only from people of category R, who are not affected by a problem.

This doesn't mean all people in R agree with argument X. It means That I've never heard argument X from people outside R

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