Who in their right mind wants that? UBI just means signing your soul away to the state, who then can mandate your lifestyle completely including health procedures and even military conscription. No thanks.
Hopefully before I die I can witness a strong implementation of UBI. It would directly reflect in culture in terms of music and the arts. Little funding for the arts currently combined with massive rent nearly everywhere leaves little room for cultural phenomenon that was possible in places like the lower east side bowery for example. Or arts funding in the USSR and other soviet bloc countries.
Time is more valuable than anything else.
Your fun time was extremely damaging to people everywhere but of course, we can pretend "it was necessary because COVID" which we then knew and now it's undeniable, was an absolute farce of hygiene theater.
The people who worked paid for you to do nothing at your parents home. That's all there is. Meanwhile, there also were massive transfers of wealth with the same excuse, from tax payers to the wealthies company owners.
This is pretty good example why UBI is dangerous. Those funded artists were very happy to suck it up and go along with the regime. The censorship was in place, but self-censorship was even stronger.
Meanwhile a lot of art existed outside of the system with people working some shitty jobs and doing arts in free time.
Eventually Solzhenytsin was kicked out from USSR and had to take exile in west. Do you really want to use him as an example of Soviet artistic freedom?
Hearing parents and grandparents stories... And having talked to older artsy people who did grow up before the fall of USSR... Self-censorship was the default modus operandi. Sure, few didn't do it. Most of those paid the price either in gulags in earlier years or mental asylums later.
Who are you even arguing with at this point?
Funny how the biggest part of the US budget is funding that.
Free means you didn’t do anything to get something.
Ever been shot at before?
Those living in poverty. Speaking from personal experience.
> UBI just means signing your soul away to the state, who then can mandate your lifestyle completely including health procedures and even military conscription.
The state can already do this without UBI.
Not saying UBI is flawless though.
Should we not move toward a society that can not go hungry?
"Universal" health care.
What the word in quotes means is they're unconditional.
“A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have.”
How are the governments and economies in the happiest countries structured, for example.
Nothing to do with UBI; the gov of the country you live in can do that period. Really no clue what it has to do with UBI.
Most people have nothing in the current system.
Some people have these without UBI. In fact theres nothing stopping the state from doing these things right now.
This study didn't say, we gave 1200 to people and then dictated their lives like a dictator.
Citation needed. Authoritarians always love to go dismiss anyone who doesn't just take anything they're given.
>Governments don't exist to redistribute money
Citation needed.
Citation needed
It works both ways.
The goal of the government is not stated as such. It's not "the social contract".
But hey, your phrase sounded confident so you have that going for you.
The wording was very intentional and very wrong. Specially because it's uses as an argument.
Entirely unlike modern America, where utility providers for food and water are regulated for what's healthy and representative legislature decides when to draft you for Vietnam 2.
Anyone that is repulsed by a system that requires an underclass of desperate people for it to work.
> UBI just means signing your soul away to the state
As opposed to sign your soul away to corporations instead?
In the US, health procedures are currently in the hands of oligarchical profit-maximizing middlemen; the first assassination has already happened.
I really don't know what your objection is to improving people's lives.
The only problem is that every person is a government-owned livestock unit. Their thoughts, knowledge, career paths, kids, even their private life, everything is controlled by government, that also obligates you to watch after your neighbours and co-workers. You can't even leave the country without government permission. You can expelled if you don't like the government though. You can't work where you want after getting your degree, government will send you where they think they need you to be. School is never ending propaganda. We literally had "political information" every Monday, since grade 1. Also, since grade 1 you're in one of the tiers of the only allowed political party of the country. There's tier for grade 1 to 3, then for 4 to 8, then from 8 to 10. Every 18yo is drafted for 2 years for armed forces (3 for navy). I can go on and on.
I remember it too well and would never trade messy and chaotic capitalist society to that labour camp with "free" rations.
It's frightening that so many people in 1st world want to live in a cage with 3-times-a-day meal.