• TheMurphy@lemmy.world
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    UBI is necessary for this to be positive, so that’s our problem. Not the machines taking the job.

    Don’t throw shit at this, throw it at politicians.

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      And yet you cheer on the loss of jobs and hand wave away issues as someone else’s problem. That makes you part of the problem as the side cheering on the destruction of people’s lives. Seriously how do you “workless utopia” fuckwits not see this?

      I know how actually: you don’t work these jobs and it will make you feel better about your demand for more and excessive consumption because “well at least it didn’t hurt a human” but it does and will. You speak from an ivory tower and say it will be good when you hear less screams from below without caring for how the screaming stops.

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        I actually just want UBI so every single working class can get the basic needs instead of the rich getting richer.

        I’m pretty sure I’m in the ground, and not in a tower with this opinion.

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          Sure but right now that isn’t happening and robotics dismantling jobs destroying income is real. We are focusing on idealism and not reality.

          Wanting it is fine but advocating that it’s the only solution right now is not.

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          B-but the billionaires will get angry you have your basic needs met despite it not hurting them whatsoever! You might actually not be a slave for a few seconds!

        • r3df0x ✡️✝☪️@7.62x54r.ru
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          The pandemic showed us that people shouldn’t have their income tied to the government.

          The corporations should be required to fund public housing. No one pays more then 10% of their income.

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      I have really mixed feelings about automated UBI societies. UBI needs to be tied to some form of “adulting” otherwise you’re just going to end up enabling people. The idea of tying people’s income to performing certain tasks is also very scary for the potential of abuse. Letting people sit at home and be slobs all day will get us Brave New World.

      I think the way to help people is to drastically lower the cost of housing and other essential costs. A government allowance just makes people slaves to the government.

      I feel like UBI only works out when people have very strong religious morals that give them discipline and will stop them from becoming fat slobs if they don’t need to work.