What if all the need to raise wages to entice people to return to work was just chicanery to backdoor an increase in the minimum wage without actually having to legislate it....
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Democrats, our Big Tech overlords and Big Corps all want UBI. I believe this unemployment situation gives them an opportunity to implement and test run UBI.
Minimum wage - in reality - appears to me to be negative infinity. I picture some liberal arts students paying to jump through arbitary hoops for ever-increasing (tuition, etc.) costs as the probability of some of them ever receiving compensation for creating actual value approaches zero.
"Minimum wage" on the other hand is a bumper sticker.
Univerisal basic income sounds different and may actually be different. I would like to at least consider it in theory for a moment before I write it off as a similar clap trap.
As a thought experiment, let's assume your first sentence is factual.
Why do you think they want UBI?
Why do you think the average person thinks the average person thinks they want it?
Universal Basic Income (UBI) is supported by large companies like Twitter's Jack Dorsey: https://www.foxbusiness.com/technology/jack-dorsey-3m-mayors-ubi
The Covid Plandemic was an attack on small business as a favor to big business. What better way to destroy our country than to destroy our entrepreneurs? Small business accounts for half of employment in the USA.
UBI would keep the plebes complacent while Big Business ravages the US.
I am not claiming what you are saying is not true. I am trying to comprehend how the average person that may support this justifies to themselves why this is a worthy approach.
Obiviously the average person is not thinking, "Let's do this so Big Business can keep us complacent and ravage the US."
For me personally, UBI is akin to putting more and more oil in the car everytime you want to travel somewhere instead of addressing the cause of the oil leak. It is an admission that our current system is broken.