Yes, I believe there are seismic social changes ahead of us. Universal Basic Income won't be the utopian fix most people expect to be. (Yay! I will be paid to play all day... because it is my basic human right!) No, it will be the final chains of slavery... that people will line up for and willingly choose, because they continue to falsely believe that they have influence over the government.
You are viewing a single comment's thread from:
Universal Basic Income may be a temporary fix for such a fate at best, but, yeah, eventually people will need to find alternative ways to gain back their livelihood if our society is to continue to thrive as a democracy. Saudi Arabia has something similar to Universal Basic Income. Then again, they have all that money from their oil and gas industry, so they can afford it as a whole. The Universal Basic Income eliminates any homelessness problems they might have otherwise. However, the monarchy there still has full control over every aspect of every Arabian citizen's life. And perhaps that is good enough for the civilians there, because they have never known any differently. However, we Americans here in our nation will always need our freedom at the end of the day.
UBI comes at a price... freedom. If you do something that the State or Monarchy disapproves of, then goodbye UBI. It is a tool of control, not freedom or assistance.
The best slaves are willing happy slaves.