• Flying Squid
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    23 months ago

    You’re making no sense. How is giving everyone the financial help to keep them clothed, housed, fed, etc. without needing to work for it not going to fix anything as long as you prevent price gouging?

    • @Wogi@lemmy.world
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      13 months ago

      Ok, let me recontextualize here. “if we can terraform mars, why wouldn’t we migrate because of climate change on earth?” In that scenario, why wouldn’t we fix our climate?

      If we have the power to regulate pricing, why would we need UBI?

      It’s socialism with extra steps. You can just do regular socialism, you don’t need to enshitify socialism with capitalism. You really don’t.

      • Flying Squid
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        13 months ago

        If we have the power to regulate pricing, why would we need UBI?

        Because no matter how low priced something is, someone who has no job still can’t afford it.

        • @Wogi@lemmy.world
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          23 months ago

          So, provide the necessary things. Provide housing, medical care, and clothing to anyone that wants it, doing so will probably be necessary for price controls anyway. I’m not saying those things should be unobtainable. I’m saying UBI is a dumb way to go about providing them.

          • Flying Squid
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            13 months ago

            So all food should be free? Or should poor people only be allowed to have certain foods for free but rich people can have anything they want to eat?

            • @Wogi@lemmy.world
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              23 months ago

              I think basic needs should be met, and if you want something better than that you’d need to pay for it.

              • Flying Squid
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                13 months ago

                Ok, which foods should people with no money not be allowed to have?

                • @Wogi@lemmy.world
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                  23 months ago

                  Anything that is outside of basic needs? I thought that was fairly obvious. You need a certain number of calories each day, and those should come with decent nutrients. Outside of that there’s literally no reason to say because we can’t even get that right yet.

                  Fix the actual problems, don’t just slap a stupid band-aid over the problem and pat yourself on the back.

                  Buddy you’re waisting a lot of energy debating someone who already mostly agrees with you.

                  • Flying Squid
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                    13 months ago

                    So your UBI-free solution is actually worse than the food stamps program?

                    I don’t know that you do agree with me if you think rich people deserve better food than poor people.