The Spaceballs Argument for Unconditional Basic Income

Re:The Spaceballs Argument for Unconditional Basic Income by Aunche on Wednesday January 11, 2023 @03:23PM (#34344097)

UBI in theory means that everyone in the world should receive a modest income (in the order of $2/day). This is something that I would support.

UBI proposals in practice means that an exclusive in-group gets gets the wages the comfortable middle class wages for free and outsource all their work to an out-group that doesn't qualify for UBI. Working conditions for the out-group are slow to improve because they have very little political power. Meanwhile, the in-group stagnates and becomes completely dependent foreign work paid for by free money. This is exactly is what happens in the Gulf oil nations.

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Re:The Spaceballs Argument for Unconditional Basic Income by yadoomerta on Wednesday January 11, 2023 @03:29PM (#34344197)

What do you expect someone living in America to do with $2 a day ?? UBI doen't have to be global, though ideally it would be, it can have a huge good for people working in exploitive jobs or doing make-work, freeing them to contribute and volunteer as they see fit. But only if it's enough to actually live on

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Re:The Spaceballs Argument for Unconditional Basic Income by neon_electro on Wednesday January 11, 2023 @05:55PM (#34346266)

U in UBI is Universal.

Everyone gets it, those that make money pay extra in taxes such that it nets out to $0 beyond a certain income level.

Is that difficult to conceptualize?

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