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   TheJen is inconsolable (thejen@beige.party)'s status on Monday, 13-May-2024 00:18:36 JST TheJen is inconsolable

   Maybe I'm weird for a trained capitalist, but it seems to me that Universal Basic Income would be a boon for the economy and not a detriment. Why?

   Because people could then do the work THEY WANT TO DO.

   Humans find happiness and fulfillment in work. I'm not talking about the corpo 9-5 grind, I'm talking real work. Making things. Doing creative work.

   Ancient people had no bosses, but they worked. They fed their families, they made things, they had time in the evenings to draw on cave walls. Invent. Innovate.

   Whatever.

   I have more fully formed thoughts around this, but I'm tired.

   Suffice it to say that modern work is not a natural state. It's completely artificial and it's killing us.

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     Timo (timo21@mastodon.sdf.org)'s status on Monday, 13-May-2024 00:18:35 JST Timo

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     @TheJen UBI would be great depending on its implementation. It could simplify a lot of government processes and reduce admin costs if done correctly. With technology taking a lot of people's jobs, UBI is a necessity to avoid becoming an even more terrible society. BUT conservatives also want UBI so they can get all government programs in one place and slowly strangle them.

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     TCat likes reality (tcatinreality@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 13-May-2024 02:48:02 JST TCat likes reality

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     @TheJen
     I'm a big fan of the UBI idea, but there's one key caveat. There must be public ownership, or profit limits, on essential goods and services.

     Just look how energy and food companies used #Greedflation to suck up all the available money that people saved during the pandemic.

     UBI, without the prevention of such exploitation, will only lead to another round of energy, food, housing inflation ...because they can.

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