UBI is not going to be without its problems, but it might be a stopgap to delay the onset of too many homeless starving people (which will result in police action, outlaw groups and eventually a proper Rebel Alliance, also a Résistance since chronic police brutality historically results in a résistance.

In the Great Depression, FDR enacted the New Deal because the choice was that or tremble before the Communist Revolution < swelling Bolshevik chorus > since an awful lot of Americans were living in paint-can shelters and dying of malnutrition on flour paste while Hoover was laughing and smoking cigars and playing poker with all the industrialists. Good times!

Here in the US, we've been inoculated against alternatives to socialism, but the ownership class whinging about quiet quitting and in the meantime not paying us enough to survive is running thin, so we're probably going to see something between a civil war and a genocide of non-whites, non-Christians, uppity women, people who are the wrong kind of Christianity, and eventually people who fail to snap their salute quite snappy enough.

Because we entirely failed to fix these problems during the last century, and will probably fail to fix them during the next too.

But man, I totally hope I'm wrong. Please make me eat crow.

[–] woodenskewer 5 points 4 months ago

Yep, Lemmy on web browser no longer allows me to post images in comments.

I actually prefer the time when if someone wanted to post an image or gif it was a link you chose to click on or not.

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