JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · 8 months agoWhen talking to people who dislike UBI about UBI, they'll often say both that 'people need a purpose in life' and that 'nobody will work if they get free money'.message-squaremessage-square148fedilinkarrow-up1212arrow-down111file-text
arrow-up1201arrow-down1message-squareWhen talking to people who dislike UBI about UBI, they'll often say both that 'people need a purpose in life' and that 'nobody will work if they get free money'.JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · 8 months agomessage-square148fedilinkfile-text
Those seem incompatible to me. (UBI means Universal Basic Income, giving everyone a basic income, for free)
minus-squareRainfallSonata@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up26arrow-down1·8 months agoWe’ve already reached post scarcity. Any current scarcity is manufactured.
minus-squareZahzenEclipse@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down15·8 months agoIf you don’t have funds to buy resources then that seems to be accurate scarcity no?
minus-squareamio@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up18·8 months agoThe point is that there is no actual scarcity as in “we don’t have the resources”. We do have the resources, they’re just distributed in a way that is profoundly unfair.
minus-squareRainfallSonata@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up15·8 months agoThat’s a matter of access, not whether a sufficient amount of resources exist.
We’ve already reached post scarcity. Any current scarcity is manufactured.
If you don’t have funds to buy resources then that seems to be accurate scarcity no?
The point is that there is no actual scarcity as in “we don’t have the resources”. We do have the resources, they’re just distributed in a way that is profoundly unfair.
That’s a matter of access, not whether a sufficient amount of resources exist.