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You stay poor, we get rich
We
have literally been starving a large section of the population for
years. I was thinking that finally, the middle class will find out what
it is like to be starved by the state...
But no. They learn their privilege will be retained intact.
- Worik Stanton
But no. They learn their privilege will be retained intact.
- Worik Stanton
Let's go live
Let's go live
mono on mono form from my colleseum to yours dying on the vine the feedback on facebook must get through the biological holding the power of two stars light of the fire place light of the screen this strawberry full moon perpetuate the story while I remember and forget Hecate servant of time the big fish eating me here I am the compassionate mother even as a man |
Universal Basic Income Is Silicon Valley’s Latest Scam. Robin Öberg to Richard D. Wolff's Anti-Capitalist Enterprise
find it fascinating that so many low-income earners speak well of UBI. Makes one wonder exactly why.
Here's what a Black Socialist of America has to say in response to them:
"A lot of you are clearly reacting without having read the article, so here is the summary of the basic points:
1. The UBI is a means for the government to subsidize the extraction of more value from markets, and so the pubic pays their workers the wages that the companies should be paying them
2. UBI has the additional effect of reducing people into society to consumers who, while no longer participating in the economy still buy things from the corporations, which will continue to perpetuate captialism and the inequality of wealth
3. Income inequality is only a secondary issue: the problem isn't that people aren't being paid enough, the problem is that the basics of survival are outside of their reach.
3. An alternative, that does all of the things that UBI supposed does without strengthening the hold that corporations have over society, is a system of Universal Basic Assets, in which the access to essentials of food, clothing, shelter, healthcare, fuel, and education are not dependent on income at all."
Robin Öberg
to
Richard D. Wolff's Anti-Capitalist Enterprise
May 17 at 11:21 PM
Here's what a Black Socialist of America has to say in response to them:
"A lot of you are clearly reacting without having read the article, so here is the summary of the basic points:
1. The UBI is a means for the government to subsidize the extraction of more value from markets, and so the pubic pays their workers the wages that the companies should be paying them
2. UBI has the additional effect of reducing people into society to consumers who, while no longer participating in the economy still buy things from the corporations, which will continue to perpetuate captialism and the inequality of wealth
3. Income inequality is only a secondary issue: the problem isn't that people aren't being paid enough, the problem is that the basics of survival are outside of their reach.
3. An alternative, that does all of the things that UBI supposed does without strengthening the hold that corporations have over society, is a system of Universal Basic Assets, in which the access to essentials of food, clothing, shelter, healthcare, fuel, and education are not dependent on income at all."
Robin Öberg
to
Richard D. Wolff's Anti-Capitalist Enterprise
May 17 at 11:21 PM
Universal Basic Income Is Silicon Valley’s Latest Scam
Tuesday, May 26, 2020
Sunday, May 24, 2020
Unfair games
- Frank Eggleton yeah, bloody nobody
- Wells Tao leave'm alone
- Frank Eggleton being poor is a terrible state of affairs
- Wells Tao you would
- Wells Tao I've walked away from real physical and material wealth three significant times in my life. The license and access of everyday 'greed' that these ordinary white educated male roles had me lined up for was part of what I walked away from. So, personally I feel qualified to call it. But it's not like it doesn't make me uncomfortable it does. It's like a body check, how healthy am I ?
- Stevie McCabe do you feel healthier now than you did when you were offered those WMPs?
WMP = White Male Privileges - Stevie McCabe Rob Mayes we are all 'wealthy' inasmuch as we are all 'worthy'.
We deserve what we get but all too often we don't get all we deserve, that's what the working class struggle is about... greed is the word - Wells Tao Stevie McCabe I feel healthy around my clarity around what informed my decisions and what continues to be more of a passing interest. Resisting WMP is a daily thing where I have to choose my battles, even if the war is mine, or ours, us who don't identify as white, but know what you mean.
For me there is no working class struggle. Though there is talent there and Unions can make a powerful contribution to improving some conditions. But nah, for me it's a management issue, that they've got it upside down, they get paid the small wages, in exchange for not needing to work fuck all, and the worker get a democratically decided share. Eliminating poverty. No poor worker. Statistically, the majority of the poor, have a job, two jobs, two kids and a mortgage.
It's not greed, it's farming. - George Komarov Yep, exactly. So what?
I'm a communist not because I like poor people per se. I find the concept of 'liking people' at best questionable, I like individuals, not groups.
But I strongly dislike unfair games.
No one should be depraved of happy childhood, quality education and health-care, safe environment, and/or job opportunities only because their father or grandfather didn't make a fortune out of exploited labour of others. That's it. - Wells Tao thank you for taking a chance, the above instant facebook poem was interesting to me just for its effortlessness and also for this sudden juxtaposition and ambiguity. But I'm with you. So what! Interesting critizism. "Unfair games" the best description of capitalism I've heard for a long time...
- George Komarov I'm glad if it fits.
- Stevie McCabe also nobody should be locked up for dissenting against a corrupt/inept leadership
- Reply
- Edited
Socialists don't love poor, people they hate rich people Change my mind.
A generalization
coming from Ignorance
Ignorance, a freedom to be bought off and sold
like any other resource
Too much supply
manufacturing is cheap
Cheap as Chips
cheaper
A generalization
coming from Ignorance
Ignorance, a freedom to be bought off and sold
like any other resource
Too much supply
manufacturing is cheap
Cheap as Chips
cheaper
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