Universal Basic Income can never happen under Capitalism. It’s impossible. Were it to happen, it would literally collapse the system. Unemployment and the threat of such is the engine that keeps people in the wage slavery grind. Take that away and nobody would opt to be a wage slave as opposed to just coast on UBI and enjoy life. And even if not everyone took the UBI route, the remaining workers would have so much bargaining power, they would dictate terms to the bosses, and we can’t have that.

Stop thinking UBI has any chance of happening in any large scale.

  • db0@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPM
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    19 days ago

    Money is an extension of that idea—that not everyone is suited to produce the exact same resources—allowing people to pursue different roles and get the necessities they need for life without literally carrying chickens around to barter with.

    Yeah that’s a convenient myth. You should read Debt.

    Separation of skill doesn’t require capitalism or money. Improvements in life are the result of the scientific method. I’m not suggesting primitivism. I am pointing out that human psychology doesn’t work the way you think.