By allowing oligarchs to continue owning the means of production (and wealth, control of the state, etc.), whereas workers will have lost labor to withhold.
soratoyuki
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The oligarchs will give us just enough UBI to not riot. It's going to be used as a bribe to keep them in power. That's my issue with calls for UBI; they permanently entrench class dynamics. Our only (peaceful) leverage as workers to improve our conditions is to withhold our labor. If AI actually succeeds in mass unemployment, we lose that and we'll be forever at their mercy.
It's depends on the subreddit, I think. Or a big disconnect between lurkers and commenters? Her posts in r/Comics used to be attacked (brigaded?) so often mods changed the rules to lock down commenting on her comics. Her comics are banned from r/bonehurtingjuice because she threatened to sue or the moderators.
I do understand the internal logic of an EV tax to compensate for lost gas taxes for road maintenance. But making electric vehicles less cost effective speeds up our increasingly likely impending ecocide. So I kinda feel like you can make up the tax deficit elsewhere.
It's a shame that we don't treat deaths from political violence the same way we treat other deaths.