That's not the idea. Inequality is reduced with basic income and everyone gains the power to say no to wage slavery.https://medium.com/basic-income/cutting-the-gordian-knot-of-technological-unemployment-with-unconditional-basic-income-e8df7f8eaa16 …
The idea behind Universal Basic Income is industry will be automated, a few assholes will own everything produced, but give away a tiny bit.
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Which is, I'm sure, why it is being most strongly cheer-lead by tech billionaires who have spent their lives crushing worker's movements.
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That's why we need Universal Extravagant Income instead.
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What if the automated labour belonged to a Common Wealth?
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If u think the rhetoric around job creators is bad, under UBI they will just be like: “we own them, we can do whatever we want”
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Still better than the current system
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