Comment by TimorousBestie
Comment by TimorousBestie 21 hours ago
UBI proponents, in the US at least, usually don’t discuss investing in the public good because both political parties and most of their respective wealthy donors are actively hostile to the public good. The current administration just decimated weather forecasting earlier this year, after all.
UBI sneaks around the problem by giving the rich the same exact benefit as the poor.
Yes, and this is why I’m a bit skeptical of the idea of UBI in general, as I can already tell it will be used to politically justify cutting public services in the name of efficiency.
I don’t think a society with poor public services and UBI is a desirable one. It sounds pretty dystopian to me, frankly, especially if people become dependent on the payments.