JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · 6 months agoWhen talking to people who dislike UBI about UBI, they'll often say both that 'people need a purpose in life' and that 'nobody will work if they get free money'.message-squaremessage-square240fedilinkarrow-up1351arrow-down132file-text
arrow-up1319arrow-down1message-squareWhen talking to people who dislike UBI about UBI, they'll often say both that 'people need a purpose in life' and that 'nobody will work if they get free money'.JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · 6 months agomessage-square240fedilinkfile-text
Those seem incompatible to me. (UBI means Universal Basic Income, giving everyone a basic income, for free)
minus-squareamio@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up22·6 months agoThe point is that there is no actual scarcity as in “we don’t have the resources”. We do have the resources, they’re just distributed in a way that is profoundly unfair.
minus-squareintensely_human@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down1·6 months agoSorta like nature. There’s calories aplenty to be had. They’re just protected by other organisms that don’t want to give them up. So even in nature, the scarcity is artificial.
The point is that there is no actual scarcity as in “we don’t have the resources”. We do have the resources, they’re just distributed in a way that is profoundly unfair.
Sorta like nature. There’s calories aplenty to be had. They’re just protected by other organisms that don’t want to give them up.
So even in nature, the scarcity is artificial.