I don’t favor race-based reparations, though I do think that’s part of the rationale for a UBI, i.e. that some part of the current wealth distribution is due to injustice of many kinds (and moreover that that will always be true).
What’s the difference between universal basic income and receiving a small poultry sum of money living off of an Indian reservation? Is everybody going to be on an universal basic income? If no, who won’t be?
Is everybody on a universal basic income going to be herded up into neighborhood favelas?
Where’s the money going to come from to fund this societal operation?
It seems universal income will be the final act of dealing with all the undesirables, obsolete people, outcasts, and lost causes. Certainly you can see where that dangerous rationale leads to.
You know what I think, I think this failed modern society will become so brutally oppressive eventually that many in great numbers will flee to inhospitable wastelands just to escape in living and government organizations will fear that their tax serfs or slaves will be running away [can’t have that] doing everything they can to stop them. That’s my vision of the future in how all of this ends.
[Assuming we even get to that point.]
Are you really asking what the difference is between a universal basic income and slavery?
Were native Americans free on the first Indian reservations, yes or no? They also were completely dependent on a Federal government for all their needs in living.
See, like this. 25% of US citizens aren’t white. When we talk about “the US”, it includes a whole lot of people that aren’t white. When the right talks about a version of the US that is all white, they’re talking about a time that never really existed, and never will exist, and they’re failing to describe a realistic vision of the future.
Before the 1965 immigration act 80% of the United States population was European/white and it is predicted that this number will drop down to 50% around 2045. The same thing is happening in Western Europe, Australia, New Zealand, and Canada. If you think there will be no violent repercussions or considerable consequences to this kind of population replacement and diminishing you are naive. If you deny the magnitude of anti-white and anti European sentiment in neo liberal government institutions you’re not paying attention.
While I don’t agree that this is true of “most” problems, I do agree that over-commitment to an ideal is dangerous. This is a solid response to my argument here, and one that I will need to think about more.
I am still sticking by my statement of most, it will have to be a situation of where we agree to disagree.
When you come to the rest of your conclusion let me know.