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with the left, and have never identified with the right, I don’t like being called centrist, as it validates the outdated left-right continuum that I want to escape.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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I have no respect for most professional economists, so that is not very salient. UBI accepts market intervention and does it in favor of the workers, not the owners, meaning that it is left wing. Also, I didn't say Friedman was left, I said he moved more leftwards.
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UBI also shrinks the government by replacing the welfare state with one that provides no advantage to the disadvantaged, making it a fundamental violation of the left's principle of equality. This situation is nowhere near as clear-cut as your binary makes it out to be.
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Friedman is capable of having bad ideas, or ideas that are not politically consistent with his other ideas. He is also capable of being multi-faceted, like most human beings, another reason why political categorizations of left-right make for poor description.
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No, it's just the reason why the spectrum is a gradient, not a 0-1 categorization. You can be far-left, center-left, left of center, center, right of center, center-right, or far-right. Just because someone has ONE belief from the other end of the spectrum does not switch them
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