• @unfreeradical
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    171 year ago

    The claim of UBI leading to runaway inflation is a myth given by reactionary propaganda.

    UBI would represent a major advance for the working class. Advocating against it seems impossible to reconcile with any attitude that is not accelerationist.

    Much of your commentary seems to reproduce mythical tropes such as of the “welfare queen”.

    Seeking meaningful contribution to society is a robust human tendency. Doing so under constant threat from greedy employers is not necessary.

    • @Wogi
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      -101 year ago

      Something is not propaganda because you disagree with it.

      I also make it clear in literally my first sentence that people living off the system without working is fine, but that most people probably won’t.

      I’m not sure you actually read the post you’re responding to.

      • @Daft_ish
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        1 year ago

        Something is not scientific fact because you declare it to be.

        • @Wogi
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          -81 year ago

          There’s scientific facts, economic reality, and then there’s the pipe dream that suddenly corporations will be less greedy just “cuz” under UBI.

          • @unfreeradical
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            1 year ago

            I have heard many different opinions about UBI.

            I have never heard any suggestion that it would make corporations less greedy.

            Perhaps your objection is directed at a strawman.

      • @unfreeradical
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        61 year ago

        I responded to the text of your comment, and my concern about your opening sentence is not its lacking truth, as much as the litany of untruthful claims you later made in contradiction.

        • @Wogi
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          -71 year ago

          So no, you didn’t.

          • @unfreeradical
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            I did. Your comment is littered with mythical tropes. Even the opening is suspect, due to the suggestion of people wanting to “live off the system”.

            Most want simply that their lives be not dominated by systems that are abstract, absurd, or inhuman.

            Even if some cope differently than you, perhaps consider not judging so narrowly.