Guns_and_glory99

Guns_and_glory99 t1_j29hnbl wrote

So then go full Star Trek where there is no income because everything you want is free. UBI is short-term thinking as it literally says, I’ll replace your current income from a productive job helping society, to a non-productive role in society where I just give you money.

That overlooks the deep societal and human benefits of self worth and purpose and productivity that comes from all ‘jobs’.

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Guns_and_glory99 t1_j29gb27 wrote

That’s short term thinking. You are overlooking entrepreneurship and potential for exponential income/wealth growth. For example, the guy flipping burgers, promoted to manager, becomes Francisee, ends up owning 50 stores. With UBI, he would be stuck at pay rate of flipping burgers when replaced by robot with no chance for upward mobility.

UBI isn’t the answer. Society adapts. We transitioned from agrarian to services industry without any radical UBI type policies. UBI eliminates incentives to improve and innovate, that is why it has always failed in every country tried, and will continue to fail.

Think more creatively than the limited cudgel of UBI.

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Guns_and_glory99 t1_j1vy7x2 wrote

LOL I linked you a dozen articles describing the failures. If you are too lazy to read them, that’s on you. Keep spouting your erroneous view that ‘UBI is a success’ and you will keep running into people like me pointing out you are wrong. Stop being wrong, then you won’t get your feelings hurt anymore.

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