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@KawaSeadrake UBI is necessary in an economy that doesn't have enough need for labor to employ everyone, and I suspect nothing will make it happen right up until it is obviously and horribly necessary.
Might as well make it happen sooner so people have alternatives to pointless make-work jobs sooner, I guess
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@Thaminga @KawaSeadrake I see UBI as the only reasonable way to save capitalism in the face of an economy that doesn't need nearly as many workers as it has, personally.
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@Kistaro @KawaSeadrake And relating to that... honestly, I don't see that happening at this point without a literal revolution.
America's political system - hell, the entire Western world's political systems - are just too utterly entrenched in capitalism to make a measure like that happen without some kind of mass upheaval.