Comment on A Universal Basic Income Is Being Considered by Canada's Government
Bonehead@kbin.social 11 months agoAs long as you're honest about wanting to give rich people money simply so that you're strict definition of "universal" is maintained, I'll be willing to explain what the "universal" in UBI actually means is "universally available" as opposed to "universally applied".
chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 months ago
Just call it something else. It’s not UBI.
Bonehead@kbin.social 11 months ago
Just because you're hung up on the name is no reason not to move forward with it.
chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 months ago
Agreed. As I said, that’s not what I’m arguing here.
Bonehead@kbin.social 11 months ago
That's what it seems that you're arguing. But as I said, "universal" can mean whatever we want. Let's just give poor people money so they can survive a little better and not worry about what the exact connotations the name might imply.