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
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Richard D. Wolff's Anti-Capitalist Enterprise
May 17 at 11:21 PM
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