Comment on A universal basic income to the ultra wealthy would be perceived by them as being given a couple pennies every month

possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• rockerface@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Not sure when poor people being able to survive had become politics, but you do you

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  • possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    When it involves terms like “universal basic income” it becomes political.

    I just don’t like seeing left propaganda all over Lemmy. If you want to create community fine as I believe in free speech but don’t pollute other communities with your beliefs. I’ve noticed that Lemmy has gotten a less political overall but I still have noticed bad moderators for time to time.

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    • sparkle@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      “left propaganda” BAHAHAHA that’s like complaining about seeing people use science in their daily lives and calling it science propoganda

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      • rockerface@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        That would have been one of my points too, how can you claim UBI is leftist when ideally you wouldn’t need it under a working left-wing system in the first place. I’m not very knowledgeable about politics, but “this is leftist propaganda” isn’t it, chief

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    • themurphy@lemmy.ml ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Better living standards for everyone is “left propaganda?”

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      • Landsharkgun@midwest.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        It unironically is.

        Posts like the above are why I’m a communist now.

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    • rockerface@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      So, you support free speech… as long as you don’t see it. Feeling cognitive dissonance yet?

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  • Dark_Arc@social.packetloss.gg ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    You are literally extracting the political token of why universal basic income is helpful, and then claiming that it’s “not political”…?

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    • RGB3x3@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Oh my god, helping people! How political!

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      • Dark_Arc@social.packetloss.gg ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Helping people via the government is political.

        Political isn’t some word for “government action that’s controversial.” It’s just the discussion of government actions.

        It’s inherently political to discuss universal basic income and acting as if it isn’t, is intellectually dishonest.

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• loobkoob@kbin.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I agree. As much as I agree with the idea of universal basic income - because I think supporting society while reducing the work necessary is something we should aim for, because it's the best way to ensure everyone gets a fair lot in life and because I think it's a necessity with the direction the labour market is heading - this isn't really the kind of thing I want to see in this community, personally. Hell, UBI doesn't really have much to do with the thought of "if X is Y% of Z then 1000X is Y% of 1000Z" - it's just basic maths really (and OP seems to have got the maths wrong, too).

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  • 3volver@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I got it backwards, and rewrote it very clearly,

    The way someone with $100,000,000 would perceive $1000 is how someone with $100,000 would perceive $1.

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