Lori Summers (aka MadLori) posted this insightful thread about discussing Universal Basic Income. Many people have spent their whole lives so deeply steeped in unfettered capitalism that they can’t even imagine anything beyond our system that exploits workers and enriches the exploiters. Hopefully reading this will make people think something fundamentally different and better might just be possible one day:
Source: Lori Summers
(via: Amy Edwards McFadden)
Obviously we have a long way to go toward a universal basic income and change is hard. Of course this is being idealist, but it brings to mind the iconic Captain Jean-Luc Picard quote from Star Trek: The Next Generation, “The acquisition of wealth is no longer the driving force in our lives. We work to better ourselves and the rest of humanity.”
This is possibly the single best argument for Universal Basic Income I’ve ever seen!!
This is one of the great dichotomy is between liberal and conservative thinking. Liberals say, this would help many people legitimately, so it is worth allowing for the few miscreants who will abuse it. Conservative say, this might include some of the wrong people, so to prevent that we will not do it even though it might help the large number of legitimate people. Witness the conservative attitude toward funding any sort of public activity like recreation and swimming pools – since the “wrong crowd” might come in, there’s nothing available for the “right” crowd to use.
and it’s still bloody effing valid today in ’24