What country do you live in? I do believe that bitcoin should receive more widespread adoption for day to day transactions. But I also believe that UBI pilots have demonstrated to help assist people who are struggling while working full time jobs, etc etc.
Discussion
How does Ubi work under hard money?
It relies on a fiat money printer, inflating the money supply making everything more expensive...... wheelbarrows of cash for bullshit is how it ends and ppl needing more and more cash to buy less and less shit.
Who is creating the wealth from where UBI stems? The money printer?? Lol.
Ppl being productive is way better than UBI.
Not necessarily. Increasing taxes can generate the money for UBI and OpenAI has proposed a tax on AI revenue to pay for a global UBI fund. I’m not saying that particular plan is good but taxing the productive gains from ai could be a good direction.
UBI is not about people just doing nothing, for the time being anyway. In the US studies I’ve seen post COVID it’s supposed to be a form of relief assistance for the severely impoverished who often do work (and many times have kids). There was a great documentary that released recently you should watch.
Ofcourse there are bad implementations of UBI. There are bad implementations of any policy. Is this an ideal situation? No it’s not. Is it more helpful than sitting by while people struggle to make ends meet? Yes.
Taxes are theft and Sam Altman is a shitcoining scammer that made an okay product. All UBI is based on socialist ideology. The stimmies caused a bunch of government scamming, wealth redistribution, asset price inflation, and consumer price inflation. UBI wouldn't even be a topic of conversation if the USD was backed by gold instead of violence.
The main problem that I see with UBI is that it is just an extension of late stage capitalism. It doesn't solve anything just keeps empowering the same people, and extends what ever it is that you are trying to solve for. There are only two system implicit and explicit exploitation (however you define it) 99% of these discussions are just mental rope-a-dope's that dont achieve anything. Might makes right, always, just go do
I don’t deny that this is an extension of late stage capitalism. I don’t think it’s an end solution but more of a bandaid solution. But plenty of people need a bandaid right now.
I can appreciate your compassion, but it is not a solution. It intentionally only compounds the current issue (however you want to think about them) trying to bring about a class revolt. It is hoped that UBI is the most passive vs actual revolt, but it just encourages the same that lead to this destination. It's just passing the buk so we dont have to do the work
Am I correct in understanding that you are in favor of a class revolt? Or are you saying that class revolt is not preferential.
Mmmm, not sure. Because for me this things get squishy. These things and terms are all relative to the individual and their perceptions. To cop out of an answer... Above you put forth a definition of an appeal to authority, we could quibble about all those points contend with personal percieved definitions until we start talking about how many Angel's can fit on the head of a pin, it's just utopian mental rope-a-dope. To digress, a class revolt for who, why, and against who, these thing are so nebulous they become meaningless. I am convinced that a class struggle/revolt is a bad framing of the issues and solutions, they are better served as tools to critique.