tintory@lemm.ee to politics @lemmy.world · 8 months agoWhy Republicans are fighting the basic-income programs many cities and states are adopting: 'Is money a birthright now?'www.businessinsider.comexternal-linkmessage-square40fedilinkarrow-up12arrow-down10
arrow-up12arrow-down1external-linkWhy Republicans are fighting the basic-income programs many cities and states are adopting: 'Is money a birthright now?'www.businessinsider.comtintory@lemm.ee to politics @lemmy.world · 8 months agomessage-square40fedilink
minus-squarewhoelectroplateuntil@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up0·edit-28 months agoHow else are you supposed to stabilize a highly-developed postindustrial economy with increasingly rare opportunities to get ahead for most of the population? Didn’t you people read your Friedrich Hayek?
minus-squareSwingingKoala@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkarrow-up0arrow-down1·8 months agoHayek was for private money, not infinite debt to pay for UBI?
minus-squarewhoelectroplateuntil@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up2·8 months agoIDK, he seemed pretty clear when he said that “the assurance of a certain minimum income for everyone, or a sort of floor below which nobody need fall even when he [sic] is unable to take care of himself, appears not only to be a wholly legitimate protection against a common risk to all, but a necessary part of the Great Society in which the individual no longer has specific claims on the members of the particular small group into which he was born.”
minus-squareSwingingKoala@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkarrow-up0arrow-down3·8 months agoSocial security isn’t UBI.
minus-squarelolcatnip@reddthat.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·8 months agoInfinite debt? You’ve never heard of paying for things with taxes?
minus-squareSwingingKoala@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkarrow-up0arrow-down2·8 months agoHave you ever looked at a budget in your life?
minus-squarelolcatnip@reddthat.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·8 months agoAre you just chatting me up now? Because you’re certainly not addressing anything I said.
minus-squareSwingingKoala@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkarrow-up0arrow-down3·8 months agoAre you just chatting me up now? Because you’re certainly not answering anything I asked.
How else are you supposed to stabilize a highly-developed postindustrial economy with increasingly rare opportunities to get ahead for most of the population? Didn’t you people read your Friedrich Hayek?
Hayek was for private money, not infinite debt to pay for UBI?
IDK, he seemed pretty clear when he said that “the assurance of a certain minimum income for everyone, or a sort of floor below which nobody need fall even when he [sic] is unable to take care of himself, appears not only to be a wholly legitimate protection against a common risk to all, but a necessary part of the Great Society in which the individual no longer has specific claims on the members of the particular small group into which he was born.”
Social security isn’t UBI.
Infinite debt? You’ve never heard of paying for things with taxes?
Have you ever looked at a budget in your life?
Are you just chatting me up now? Because you’re certainly not addressing anything I said.
Are you just chatting me up now? Because you’re certainly not answering anything I asked.