| ▲ | ShinyLeftPad 5 days ago |
| What idea is a trap? That population will live at behest of overlords who control technology and give people the minimum necessary? Such an appealing trap huh |
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| ▲ | lazide 5 days ago | parent | next [-] |
| Compared to mass unemployment, eating dog food to stay alive, etc. which is the other obvious alternative? Why do you think the musks of the world keep touting it. |
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| ▲ | ShinyLeftPad 5 days ago | parent [-] | | compared to a future where the tech they use to wield this sort of power is not allowed to exist. or even to status quo. they tout UBI because it's one more way to control. | | |
| ▲ | lazide 4 days ago | parent [-] | | Eh, status quo is impossible once the cat is out of the bag. It’s essentially nuclear weapons, except for social manipulation and propaganda production. It’s too tempting/useful for any gov’t or large corporation to really allow to be banned. At least for them. | | |
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| ▲ | Apocryphon 5 days ago | parent | prev [-] |
| Again, the trap is believing that there is even an will to create such a bandaid, when the status quo could just continue indefinitely. |
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| ▲ | ShinyLeftPad 5 days ago | parent [-] | | Again the status quo continuing is the good outcome here. UBI is a means of control, not some utopian communism. |
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