• Formfiller@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    What amazes me is how many people believe they will get universal basic income from the pedophile tech bro overlords who don’t pay taxes are actively gutting the meager safety net and worker protections we have. The cognitive dissonance is staggering

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      2 days ago

      There’s an argument that ubi will make you reliant on the state (which will be owned by private interest via the network state…)

      Basically. The elites recreate society through who gets meaningful work and who gets an ubi and has to dance on TikTok selling products to the other group who has the money to buy.

      Who gets meaningful work = the producers. Those who ship. The rest get to be beggars.

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        2 days ago

        I guess I should say, those who own the means of production. Since it might seem like I believe the elites produce, which I don’t.

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        I guess that’s why they’re trying to buy up all the farms. We really all need to have a permaculture vegetable garden and backyard chickens, ducks or rabbits

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      3 days ago

      I would worry more about what conditions come with that UBI. They can make you agree to anything.

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        3 days ago

        They all seem to just be lies dangled over everyone’s heads to keep them working into the grave.