capitalists: ‘you just hate capitalism just cause you’re lazy and dont wanna work’
me:
crazy thought - i DONT wanna labor away and never truly experience living my own life?
These are always funny to me because they don't want communism--they want to be royalty. They don't want this life of leisure for everyone, because their electricity, food, plumbing, appliances, medicine, etc., aren't going to just drop out the sky. Someone is going to have to work and work hard to provide for them while they contribute nothing to anyone, like the indolent spare heir of monarchy. They're just trying to cloak their parasitic desires in benevolent mask.
I think something similar about UBI proponents; they just want the free money, they do anything to avoid thinking about the frankly obvious unintended consequences.
Like, what are you going to buy when the first round of payout drops and half or more of the Walmart employees don't show up, or come in as customers to hassle the managers while a flood of people come in to spend their first UBI payment.
Will the store even be functional by 14:00, or will the looting have started?
I think that kind of explosive collapse is a district possibility, especially if the "Trust me bro, it will just work out." mindset becomes a majority.
Alternatively it could be a slower burn as we get a feedback cycle of people being picky about what jobs they take, to employers having to pay more, to prices having to go up to cover higher wages, to the UBI going up, back to people being less willing to work...
Basically a zimbabwe-like hyperinflation spiral. Because ultimately, the point of a UBI is to allow anyone to have all their needs met without having to contribute anything in return. The point is the problem, because if too many people kick back on the UBI and not enough people provide what other people are consuming, it's not going to "just work out."
I remember when GuerrilaTech said that because volunteer firefighters, Wikipedia editors, and minecraft servers exist, all of society can be run on an ad-hoc volunteer basis. Other reds have made similar arguments that people will do the scut work voluntarily.
We always get hung up on "so are you going to volunteer to pick up everyone's trash?" when we point out the gaping flaws in the indolent communism fantasy, but what about the skilled labor? Who will run the nuclear power plants? Who will build houses? Who's going to perform surgery? Invent new medicines? Make microchips? Do they really want a volunteer removing their appendix or building their airplanes?
These are basic questions that come to mind the moment you propose an entirely voluntary society, which is why I'm not surprised someone with "anarco" in their blog name has never thought of them.
