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Yinlock
Oct 22, 2008

thehandtruck posted:

it doesnt need to trickle down. Its everywhere. Ask the average person in the post below yours what they think of UBI. Hell ask them who they voted for. Picture all the chuds on govt assistance, ask them their thoughts on govt handouts. Im surprised theres pushback on this idea lol, americans hate each other

It's because the rich have spent a...forever turning the working class against itself. I actually hold the opposite opinion that people are generally good, but this makes it easy for the few assholes to take power and turn them against each-other because normal people have trouble conceiving of the level of hosed-up it takes to willingly maintain the status quo, or how unfair the system actually is.

Your life's worth being defined by your job is driven into peoples' minds from birth from every facet of capitalist culture, shaking that mindset is extremely difficult even when you run straight into the sheer cruelty of it.

e: On UBI itself, i'm pretty sure the ruling class would burn the entire country to the ground before letting anything like it actually happen. It's an interesting discussion though.

Yinlock fucked around with this message at 19:26 on Mar 17, 2022

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