I love Universal Basic Income but I need people to promote it in addition to other solutions and not as a substitute for them.
"Corporation stole your life's work? Well if there were UBI you wouldn't mind!"
"Robot stole your job? With UBI you wouldn't need your job!"
"Not enough help for disabled people? If we all had UBI that would replace disability payments!"
"Corporations conglomerating into a few huge unregulatable cartels which hike up the prices of everything forever? Just tax them and do UBI!"
Like, yes UBI would certainly help those problems. I'm not at all saying it wouldn't.
But if we do not actually fix society in a few key ways, we're going to end up right back where we are now.
For instance, if we had UBI nationally (instead of just in test areas), these big colluding megacorporations would simply raise the prices of everything to recapture the money. The only limit in the money they extract from us right now is how much we have. If we had more, they'd take more, and monopoly gives them the ability to do that efficiently.
UBI isn't going to hire a special ed teacher in my kid's school or make your apartment ADA compliant.
UBI shouldn't be a consolation prize for destroying a job someone loved. Humans like to work, and we like to benefit from our own work. I do not want to have my industry demolished to be done worse by a word salad machine, and be compensated by a check.
And of course, with corporations so huge they can buy politicians, they will soon vote the taxes down and UBI back out.
regulations that protect ordinary people without a lawyer
I could go on and on but I think I've made my point. UBI and other laws and systems that promote justice, not just one or the other.
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