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  • Redderthanmisty@lemmygrad.mltoFuturology@futurology.today•Universal Basic Income: Costs, Critiques, and Future SolutionsEnglish
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    17 days ago

    Here’s the thing I don’t like about UBI though.

    If the govt pays out, say 500 bucks every week into my account as part of a UBI payment, what stops landlords from just increasing their rent, or supermarkets and local utility monopolies from raising their prices just because they can?

    At that point, you’re back to square one, and still under threat of being homeless and starving just because you’ve been priced out of the market. Additionally, UBI will only exacerbate the problem of wealth inequality, as while poorer families will be using the payments to pay for necessities they need to survive, wealthier families who straight up don’t need the extra help will just use it to accumulate and horde more assets, on top of receiving increased profits from all the poorer families putting their entire UBI payments towards affording their increased prices.

    What we should be doing instead, is providing universal basic services. Free housing, food, water, electricity, transport, healthcare, education, guaranteed work, and so on. Everything you need to live a basic subsistence, provided at little to no cost to everyone who needs it with no strings attached. From there, if you want additional luxuries like a bigger house, vacations abroad, etc, then you would need to work, but you won’t be fucked if there happens to be no work going around.

  • Redderthanmisty@lemmygrad.mltoMemes@lemmy.ml•Fuck Tankies
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    2 months ago

    Firstly, how do you consider China to be a fascist nation?

    Secondly, When since 1990 did “tankies” uncritically support Russia?

    Thirdly, assuming you manage to establish even a remotely socialist government, how would you go about ensuring its survival against embargoes, espionage, invasion, counterrevolution, etc without ending up like Allende or Lumumba?

    Fourthly, what the hell even is that graphic? Assuming you’re supposed to overlay the political compass on top (which is a poorly designed and arbitrary graph that doesn’t have room for nuance anyway), What right wing economic arguments do you think we promote? Because I’m pretty sure the abolition of private property isn’t something Friedman, let alone Hitler, particularly agreed with.

  • Redderthanmisty@lemmygrad.mltoMemes@lemmy.ml•Fuck Tankies
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    2 months ago

    Fuck right off with this infighting and division bullshit you’re pushing. What does this serve to achieve other than divide the left and prevent it from organising and taking action?

    The only reason “tankies” are “authoritarian” (two words that have lost any meaning at this point), is because after seeing repeated examples throughout history where liberal socialist movements have fallen and collapsed to capitalist backed fascist militias and infiltration, they are willing to do what it takes to ensure the socialist state lasts long enough against counterrevolution to begin building the foundations for a truly free socialist society.

    Even if that means a few dead monarchs, billionaires, and fascists along the way, then I have no objection against those whom you call “tankies”.