You can Spin it ANY way you like.... its is Still Fucking Communist Bullshit...!! ...There's right and there's wrong...No Inbetween...If you fuck up you face the consequences of your actions... SIMPLE...!Just Obey The Fucking Law...SIMPLE...!
I can absolutely see it from your perspective. These UBI experiments are always going to be controversial for that reason. Many people aren't hugely supportive of paying people for meeting the basic requirements of being a good citizen, but some liberal theories will say that if someone is stuck BELOW those requirements, then we can either just shoot them like a wounded horse, or we can try to find a humane solution that prevents the need to turn to crime in the first place.
And considering the speed at which automation and AI is developing, I wouldn't say that exploring UBI is necessarily a bad thing, even if we separate it from crime. We're heading to a world where cheap machines are going to take over an enormous number of jobs in a capitalistic slaughter, and we have no way to offer these displaced people a way to afford food.
It's not bad to dip our toe into some solutions before we end up with entire states of people out of work when WalMartTron takes over all farming duties in Iowa.
You can Spin it ANY way you like.... its is Still Fucking Communist Bullshit...!! ...There's right and there's wrong...No Inbetween...If you fuck up you face the consequences of your actions... SIMPLE...!Just Obey The Fucking Law...SIMPLE...!
I can absolutely see it from your perspective. These UBI experiments are always going to be controversial for that reason. Many people aren't hugely supportive of paying people for meeting the basic requirements of being a good citizen, but some liberal theories will say that if someone is stuck BELOW those requirements, then we can either just shoot them like a wounded horse, or we can try to find a humane solution that prevents the need to turn to crime in the first place.
And considering the speed at which automation and AI is developing, I wouldn't say that exploring UBI is necessarily a bad thing, even if we separate it from crime. We're heading to a world where cheap machines are going to take over an enormous number of jobs in a capitalistic slaughter, and we have no way to offer these displaced people a way to afford food.
It's not bad to dip our toe into some solutions before we end up with entire states of people out of work when WalMartTron takes over all farming duties in Iowa.