Even though I no longer identify with the left, and have never identified with the right, I don’t like being called centrist, as it validates the outdated left-right continuum that I want to escape. In the spirit of today, I’d rather be known as “political spectrum non-binary.”
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In espousing the support for a UBI, he has admitted that the free market does not work, meaning he has conceded his economic framework (whether he admits it or not) and therefore has to harbor economic intervention. This means he has moved left.
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I think that, contrary to this framework needing to be changed in the modern world, many people actually just need to be educated about the foundations of the framework. It has existed for a reason; it describes an extant binary.
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UBI is communistic. It is a horrible idea, and will either a) become nothing more than a flow-through gift to landlords & grocers or b) require further gov intervention in housing & commodities. Efficiency doesn't mean right-wing, despite conservatives claiming economic acumen.
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I would actually agree that UBI has some fundamentally communistic underpinnings. The thing that truly separates it, is that under communism, currency has been abolished and the free flow of goods is distributed by need. Thus why I call it left of center.
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In isolation, it will fundamentally allow the continuation of capitalist exploitation and thus it has a very real capacity to do damage. That being said, it seems hard to argue it will not be outweighed by the benefits of workers being allowed to fluidly change jobs.
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