• SlopppyEngineer@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    If you have basic universal income, all products and especially rent becomes more expensive overnight so still not much of a safely net. Increase UBI to keep trend with the prices and you have some serious inflation.

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      7 months ago

      This is the same tired argument that’s been used by the wealth hoarding class since like the 1800s. The facts don’t support it.

      8 hour work days will kill the economy - nope

      5 day work week will kill the economy - nope

      Minimum wage will kill the economy - nope

      <Insert the same argument for UBI> - nope

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        7 months ago

        No, it’s a valid concern that MUST be addressed by any UBI plan. If it is ONLY giving people money, there is quite literally NOTHING STOPPING THEM from making the extra income moot.

        The fact you do not understand that is fucking pathetic. They’re not saying the plan is useless. They’re saying the plain, basic concept has some blind spots that would have to be addressed in any legislation. You CANNOT “simply give people money” to fix the economy. Period. Ever.

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          7 months ago

          So you can insult and call me pathetic all you want. It doesn’t really help your argument.

          How do you address the fact that every other time someone has claimed the same thing about any systemic economic change ruining the economy they have been proven wrong?

          [Edit]Oh I didn’t read usernames before replying. I should know better than to expect anything other than insults and boring old tropes from you.

          Fuck off.

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            Boo. I am in favour of UBI but I would like to disavow this line of reasoning. “You must be wrong because people like you have been wrong in the past” is just ad hominem with extra steps.

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            7 months ago

            No one has been proven wrong about anarchy because it has quite literally never existed in recorded history. Holy fuck your confidance in ignorance truly is pathetic.

            I only say the basics because you goons still don’t understand the basics.