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A comment on /r/antiwork: A tragedy of sanewashing and social gentrification. Parent comment

Re:/r/antiwork: A tragedy of sanewashing and social gentrifi... by quirino on Monday February 07, 2022 @12:59PM (#30248504)
Taxes wouldn't necessarily be raised. The idea would be to replace many (possibly all) of the usual government social services by these payments.

You already pay taxes, and they are already used to fund other people. The idea would be to allow people to choose individually how to spend this money. The goal is efficiency, fair distribution of benefits and elimination of bureaucracy and administrative overhead.

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Re:/r/antiwork: A tragedy of sanewashing and social gentrifi... by thecolorblew on Monday February 07, 2022 @02:53PM (#30250070)
Well, you'd still need the usual government social services though in order to protect those who might still be homeless or hungry even with the UBI.
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