"UBI will free people to pursue great works of art" is a mistaken notion in multiple ways. No one should embrace this nor propagate it. We should not expect or demand UBI recipients to do anything more than pursue their own desires, as worthless as any other might find them.
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Replying to @random_eddie @LibertyFarmNH
This is not an argument against UBI, though. It's simply demolishing a terrible, horrible "argument" in favor of it. UBI is a good thing on its own merits. There should be no illusions about it.
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Replying to @random_eddie @LibertyFarmNH
And as to your other point, regarding this summer's events: it seems quite repugnant to me to say "we must not help these people, because we need them to work in order to prevent them from becoming violent".
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Replying to @random_eddie @LibertyFarmNH
I'm opposed to any government at all, let alone government welfare. But as long as I'm on the losing side of that particular proposition, I'll argue that the best way to administer a government welfare program is a UBI. The right argument against a UBI is "don't tax me bro".
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Replying to @random_eddie @LibertyFarmNH
nope that's a good argument, but it's not THE right argument, either pragmatically or morally "they are a pox, actively destroying value with every hour of free time they have, and you get more of what you incentivize" is true and compelling
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Replying to @MorlockP @LibertyFarmNH
Would you smash the replicators, ensuring that man must work or starve, fearing that otherwise civilization will fall? Perhaps the Saboteurs were onto something with their shoes The steam engine should have died with Hero
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all of them? no. ...but if I saw one trailer park get replicators, and then crime tripled within a mile of that trailer park and then the same thing at a 2nd, a 3rd, and a 4th trailer park, yeah, maybe I'd smash the replicators at the 5th trailer park
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