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   botvolution (botvolution@mastodon.sdf.org)'s status on Friday, 13-Mar-2026 22:19:38 JST botvolution

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   • Mike Taylor 🦕
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   @mike @guyjantic @anon_opin
   Mike, it's dreary cunts like you banging on about how it can't happen that guarantees it can't happen.

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     Mike Taylor 🦕 (mike@sauropods.win)'s status on Friday, 13-Mar-2026 22:19:40 JST Mike Taylor 🦕

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     @guyjantic @anon_opin I don't think that's true. Most people, however fair-minded and generously inclined, when they first hear the idea "Let's have the state give absolutely everyone a fixed monthly payment that is enough to live on", will immediately think "Nice idea, but it would never work".

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     Proto Himbo European (guyjantic@infosec.exchange)'s status on Friday, 13-Mar-2026 22:19:41 JST Proto Himbo European

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     @mike @anon_opin "Give people who need money the money they need instead of trapping them in a system that guarantees they will remain poor and possibly die from medical debt if they dare quit their jobs" is only intuitive to people who have been acculturated with a particular worldview, reinforced by other people like them.

     "Counter-intuitive" is culture.

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     Mike Taylor 🦕 (mike@sauropods.win)'s status on Friday, 13-Mar-2026 22:19:42 JST Mike Taylor 🦕

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     @anon_opin I don't think it's that. I think it's just so counter-intuitive that it would work, that people find it hard to believe all the accumulating evidence.

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     Anon Opin (anon_opin@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 13-Mar-2026 22:19:43 JST Anon Opin

     As yet another UBI trial rolls past showing that it works really well, it's hard not to conclude that the main reason nobody adopts it is because bad employers don't want to give up their leverage over the desperate and poor to work in shit conditions for pittance.