The entire point of the UBI is to provide enough to live on.
Assertion: capitalism 1.0 as implemented in the US today, rewards sociopathy more than intelligence or work ethic ( or any other sort of ethic for that matter).
Sociopathy I use loosely in both its narrow technical, and lay, uses.
Lemma: many of the current "unicorns" lionize sociopathy under the pithy cover of "breaking things," such as laws, not least through exploitation of societal and legal zero-days. Their fully disclosed business model has been to exploit the slow response time of legal and societal remedies long enough to burn VC buying customers and building a defensible monopoly.
The point of the UBI is to provide a defense of last resort for citizens of one of the wealthiest, and rapidly stratifying and polarizing, cultures on the planet.
We are likely agreed that it shouldn't be the only and first source of income,
but it should absolutely be the last.
That it would also help prevent the absolute devastation looming from this pandemic, not least by allowing businesses to remain solvent during black swan events,
makes it more pressing, and obviously beneficial, than ever before.
For my next rant, I'll address why single-payer healthcare is in the same situation.
Assertion: capitalism 1.0 as implemented in the US today, rewards sociopathy more than intelligence or work ethic ( or any other sort of ethic for that matter).
Sociopathy I use loosely in both its narrow technical, and lay, uses.
Lemma: many of the current "unicorns" lionize sociopathy under the pithy cover of "breaking things," such as laws, not least through exploitation of societal and legal zero-days. Their fully disclosed business model has been to exploit the slow response time of legal and societal remedies long enough to burn VC buying customers and building a defensible monopoly.
The point of the UBI is to provide a defense of last resort for citizens of one of the wealthiest, and rapidly stratifying and polarizing, cultures on the planet.
We are likely agreed that it shouldn't be the only and first source of income,
but it should absolutely be the last.
That it would also help prevent the absolute devastation looming from this pandemic, not least by allowing businesses to remain solvent during black swan events,
makes it more pressing, and obviously beneficial, than ever before.
For my next rant, I'll address why single-payer healthcare is in the same situation.