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[–] dumpsterlid 18 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

A man that feels he has nothing to lose is a dangerous thing.

Billionaires with nothing to gain but money for moneys sake are far more dangerous, it’s just they are going to kill your loves ones with crushing debt or an opioid prescription not a bullet.

Between 1999 and 2015, around 350,000 people died from opioid addiction related deaths in the US.

350,000

Guess whether any of the Sacklers went to jail who knowingly pushed opioid prescriptions in situations where it was dangerous or unnecessary based rational from studies conducted to purposefully sell more opioids?

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352827319300096#:~:text=According%20to%20the%20CDC%2C%20there,counties%20from%201999%20through%202015.

[–] Dkarma 1 points 9 months ago (2 children)

This is why we can kill 2 birds with one stone via smart ubi

[–] dumpsterlid 7 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I mean as long as UBI isn't spearheaded by a bunch of libertarians who think they are bravely forging an unprecedented path forward towards creating a social safety net while ignoring the long history of social safety nets in different societies, and the entire left movement in the US that fought successfully for things like the 8 hour work day.

I think UBI can be great, but there are wayyyy too many libertarians into UBI to the point that the ruling class has a super clear route to catastrophically cutting social welfare programs across the board while saying "we don't need these if we have UBI!", making UBI completely insufficient, and fooling libertarians into taking the bait hook line and sinker because they don't have political or historical knowledge about how social welfare in societies is actually achieved through organization of worker power to leverage against a hostile ruling class.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

smart uzi

FTFW

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