Sacha Greif · Apr 21

"hey don't get mad at us cause you lost your job, we suggested everybody get UBI and a free puppy but nobody listened!"

Anita Lettink · Apr 21

Let’s think about that for a second: where will the money for UBI supposedly come from? From the government taxing corporations. Because that currently works so well…. oh wait.

@osboman.bsky.social · Apr 21

I’ll figure out other reasons to leave the house as long as money’s not an issue

Una mujer y dos gatos 🐈🐈‍⬛ · Apr 21

Which they know, but what good guys they are to think of us

@landisr.bsky.social · Apr 21

Gauzy promises, even if initially met, might dissolve into our version of the Irish potato famine.

Ripley · Apr 21

1. The ‘pull yourself up by your bootstraps’ party will never vote for this 2. UBI will be so low that we’ll be surviving but not thriving 3. The only jobs available will be military, ICE, and various blue collar jobs - basically Bladerunner 4. We’re choosing this outcome as if it’s inevitable. 😠

LindaG23 · Apr 21

Is the answer that tech companies would not be willing to be taxed to support it?

Ken from Chicago · Apr 21

It's amusing how much of UBI discussion IGNORES adults who don't have jobs, retirees, trust fundies, college kids and young adults living at home. Do they lack dignity, purpose, reasons for waking up? How much is the argument for jobs akin to working at an office? It's what we've always done.

@squishyhobo.bsky.social · Apr 22

Ubi doesn't stop you from doing your job. You just get to do it on your own terms. This is bootlicking nonsense

@squishyhobo.bsky.social · Apr 22

Let people make their own reasons for leaving the house. We're not children. Don't parrot conservative anti-socialist talking points. I mean ubi won't happen for sure but not for good reasons.

Dadbod · Apr 21

There’s nothing in the last 50 years of our country’s history that says UBI is anything but a pipe dream tech oligarchs want us to believe….at least for a little while.

reality check 🤔😕😢 · Apr 21

Nailed 1 and 2 from the World Economic Forum's top three reasons why AI is the fastest-growing risk to society over the next 10 years. Mass unemployment -> economic and social instability Inferiority to machines -> crisis of meaning