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Wednesday, May 27, 2020

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

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



Universal Basic Income Is Silicon Valley’s Latest Scam

The plan is no gift to the masses, but a tool for our further enslavement

 

Link to article

Sunday, May 24, 2020

Unfair games

    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
    Comments
  • Frank Eggleton yeah, bloody nobody
  • Wells Tao leave'm alone
  • Frank Eggleton being poor is a terrible state of affairs
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  • Wells Tao managed state, terrible yep.
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  • Rob Mayes I’d use the word greedy instead of rich
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  • Wells Tao I prefer to bury the hatchet
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  • 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 ?
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  • Rob Mayes everyone should be ‘wealthy’. It’s when you take much much more than you need or that is in any way fair and decent that causes the capitalist problem
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  • 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.
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  • 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.
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    • 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...
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  • George Komarov I'm glad if it fits.
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  • Stevie McCabe also nobody should be locked up for dissenting against a corrupt/inept leadership
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