One overlooked potential of unconditional basic income is its ability to chill the Culture War. It could form the basis of a new economics that offers the best of Left & Right - equality of opportunity *and* individual freedom - thereby rendering the political spectrum obsolete.
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Replying to @G_S_Bhogal
Why is nobody talking about the horror of becoming totally dependent on a government with the UBI -- or arguably worse, bureaucracy?
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Replying to @KatMullaly @G_S_Bhogal
With the hodgepodge of programs we have in Canada, and likely other countries too, replacing them all with ubi could greatly reduce one group of dependents: Bureacracy.
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Replying to @SlagOffTwits @G_S_Bhogal
Agree. Hey, I think waste and inefficiency are secular mortal sins! But I'm still curious about volunteering to become complete slaves to a system being such a non-issue for so many. Or am I missing something?
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Replying to @KatMullaly @SlagOffTwits
We are all doomed to slavery in some way, we just have to choose our master. Not having unconditional income is itself a form of slavery, as it forces you to commodify yourself. I like to see UBI as liberation from wage-slavery, and a launching pad to financial independence.
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I mostly support ubi, but being a slave to the govt seems much less desirable than a slave to wages.
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You wouldn't really be a slave to the government, though. It would be giving you money unconditionally, which you could use to liberate yourself from dependence on anyone, including the government itself.
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Until the infrastructure begins to crumble because nobody wants to get their liberated hands dirty anymore. Trust me, I am mostly in favour of ubi, but to sell it as a silver bullet to all of our problems is naive imo.
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I never said it was a silver bullet. And I don't believe that infrastructure would crumble. Renovation would become automated like every other manual job, and I expect there would also be enough people willing to make large sums of extra money by doing what machines couldn't.
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