Memes of Production

UBI keeps capitalism and thus inequality. It’s a zero sum game where people’s wealth will flow towards the rich, enabling them in future to amass power to undo UBI and repeat the mistakes we have now.

Better solution is to ditch currency and focus on meeting people’s wellbeing needs directly.

UBI will just cause inflation, it increases aggregate demand without increasing aggregate supply. More dollars chasing the same amount of goods leads to inflation.

It also doesn't really address inequality, anyone's relative position on the income hierarchy doesn't change, if I make $500 more than another guy before UBI, I'll still make $500 more than them after UBI, and your position on the income hierarchy determines your standard of living, not your absolute income. Eg. If you get a raise that matches inflation your absolute income may have gone up, but your relative income stayed the same and thus so did your standard of living.

We need to stop focusing on money and focus on the systems of production and hierarchy that actually determine our living standards. Money is just an expression of those structures, it's downstream, and changing that won't change the actual structures.

My cousin has consciousness as well as Chromosome 5q minus. She can not preform any type of labor.

Fucking abelist class traitor.

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Leftists: “We’re trying to convince you”

No, that's modern social democracy, which is generally considered fairly centrist. The issue with that is that capitalism still allows massive accumulation of power into the hands of individuals who can they leverage that power in an oppressive manner which is difficult to combat by ordinary folk.

With your local communist party. No guarantees, but the current system definitely won't get you there.

Leftists really need to drop the "Holier than thou" ego. Like many social-democrats have their political worldview specifically because they are/have vulnerable people in their life.

Like I want stronger, higher societal floors built from recycled pieces of ceiling. I want a society that is built to support people from the bottom not control people from the top. I don't want my standard of living to be held up by the backs of other people sacrificing their lives, domestic or abroad.

Everyone trying to divide voters left of center are either misguided or misguiding.

It still is, there just aren't more than a handful of left wing politicians in this country.

Neoliberals are NOT the left. These are the corporate Democrats that tsk at Trump's speech and actions, but ultimately agree with what he is doing because the same donors are making money.