What’s your stance on this?
Let’s have a respectful and informed discussion about this topic and the different perspectives. Feel free to share your thoughts in the comments section below.
I support it. Literally the entire purpose of living in a society vs. as hermits, is so that we can help one another out. Lets do more of that.
UBI isn’t one policy. The hard right want to use it to voucherise public services and punish single parents. Tech wants to use it to giggify work. Social democrats want to use it to make benefits cheaper and easier to distribute. Socialists are still mostly suspicious but it could be used to force employers to behave themselves. Any version of UBI will struggle to ensure that it doesn’t make immigrants even easier to exploit (and some of those with the power to implement will seek to make sure this happens).
I am in favour of a socialist UBI which works well for immigrants too but it is extremely unlikely that any such thing will be implemented in this current reality. So, I am not against UBI but I am very wary of how it might be designed to work in practice.
I have always been against UBI because it is funded by the taxpayers - so people that work are forced to support people that wont (“my job was automated” is not a valid excuse to laziness). our mommy state policy is bad enough as it is, we dont need to add more of a load on the taxpayers.
just federally mandate how/when automation is allowed to be used. it’ll have a negative impact on some aspects of creativity but at the cost of providing income to a great many people.
