JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · 10 months agoWhen talking to people who dislike UBI about UBI, they'll often say both that 'people need a purpose in life' and that 'nobody will work if they get free money'.message-squaremessage-square187fedilinkarrow-up1348arrow-down132file-text
arrow-up1316arrow-down1message-squareWhen talking to people who dislike UBI about UBI, they'll often say both that 'people need a purpose in life' and that 'nobody will work if they get free money'.JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · 10 months agomessage-square187fedilinkfile-text
Those seem incompatible to me. (UBI means Universal Basic Income, giving everyone a basic income, for free)
minus-squarephilomory@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down1·10 months agoBut that’s exactly what they just said isn’t UBI, with UBI you’d get to keep the money while working if you wanted to. “Universal” means everyone gets it, not just people who “claim to be uncomfortable working”.
minus-squareintensely_human@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up1·10 months agoWell those proposals are mis-using the term. The U is for Universal which means there are no conditions to receiving the money.
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But that’s exactly what they just said isn’t UBI, with UBI you’d get to keep the money while working if you wanted to. “Universal” means everyone gets it, not just people who “claim to be uncomfortable working”.
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Well those proposals are mis-using the term. The U is for Universal which means there are no conditions to receiving the money.
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