• octopus_ink@lemmy.ml
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    2 months ago

    Ironically things like UBI might level the playing field a bit in terms of entrepreneurship becoming more accessible, but for some reason capitalism advocates don’t actually want more people to be able to participate in capitalism.

    Because the moment someone is given something like UBI to help lift them up and provide an equitable playing field for everyone, you get some asshole focusing on how they don’t “deserve” it. As if the only thing you can possibly to in order to “deserve” to live is have a job where you are paid the bare minimum your company thinks they can get away with paying you so a few folks at the top get filthy rich and a few in the middle get rich enough not to think to much about the folks at the bottom.

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      2 months ago

      Yep, and tell me how peopke born into richesses “deserve” it…

      It’s also the slippery slope towards the idea that some people are worth less and some more, as the rich worthless people with inflated egos needs to have something to project their useless souls onto, wanting to believe they are worth more “because they are inherently better”. And we all know where that leads to.

      So they are not just useless, but also dangerous.