Counterpoint: UBI is best used as one preliminary step amongst many on the way to abolishing capitalism.
It needs price controls in order to work properly. Otherwise the capitalist overlords just make everything more expensive by at least as much, eliminating the benefit completely.
That being said, having UBI+price control would
raise the spending power of 90%+ of people,
free dozens of millions from inescapable
generational poverty,
improve the mental as well as physical health of the population
free up time and resources for people to pursue beneficial activities that they’d otherwise never be able to, potentially unlocking brilliant scientists, civil rights advocates, artists and so on that are currently stuck behind the Great Paywall of Capitalism.
All of this happening WITHOUT the coming of Ragnarok and a Bigmac costing a thousand dollars would be an EXTREMELY effective way to make sure that people not only know but FEEL that the capitalism they’ve been brought up to venerate or at least consider necessary as a lesser evil is in fact not the best or even a good system for anyone except for birth lottery winners, people with a talent for getting away with extreme exploitation and fraud, and especially people who won the birth lottery AND have that despicable talent such as Trump, Musk, and nefarious mastermind Jack McBrayer
Counterpoint: UBI is best used as one preliminary step amongst many on the way to abolishing capitalism.
It needs price controls in order to work properly. Otherwise the capitalist overlords just make everything more expensive by at least as much, eliminating the benefit completely.
That being said, having UBI+price control would
All of this happening WITHOUT the coming of Ragnarok and a Bigmac costing a thousand dollars would be an EXTREMELY effective way to make sure that people not only know but FEEL that the capitalism they’ve been brought up to venerate or at least consider necessary as a lesser evil is in fact not the best or even a good system for anyone except for birth lottery winners, people with a talent for getting away with extreme exploitation and fraud, and especially people who won the birth lottery AND have that despicable talent such as Trump, Musk, and nefarious mastermind Jack McBrayer