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minus-square@whoelectroplateuntil@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilink0•edit-21 year agoHow else are you supposed to stabilize a highly-developed postindustrial economy with increasingly rare opportunities to get ahead for most of the population? Didn’t you people read your Friedrich Hayek?
minus-square@SwingingKoala@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilink0•1 year agoHayek was for private money, not infinite debt to pay for UBI?
minus-square@whoelectroplateuntil@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilink2•1 year agoIDK, he seemed pretty clear when he said that “the assurance of a certain minimum income for everyone, or a sort of floor below which nobody need fall even when he [sic] is unable to take care of himself, appears not only to be a wholly legitimate protection against a common risk to all, but a necessary part of the Great Society in which the individual no longer has specific claims on the members of the particular small group into which he was born.”
minus-square@whoelectroplateuntil@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilink1•edit-21 year agoSorry, what does “certain minimum income” mean in your native language?
minus-square@SwingingKoala@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilink-1•edit-21 year agoSorry, what does “even when he [sic] is unable to take care of himself” in your native language?
How else are you supposed to stabilize a highly-developed postindustrial economy with increasingly rare opportunities to get ahead for most of the population? Didn’t you people read your Friedrich Hayek?
Hayek was for private money, not infinite debt to pay for UBI?
IDK, he seemed pretty clear when he said that “the assurance of a certain minimum income for everyone, or a sort of floor below which nobody need fall even when he [sic] is unable to take care of himself, appears not only to be a wholly legitimate protection against a common risk to all, but a necessary part of the Great Society in which the individual no longer has specific claims on the members of the particular small group into which he was born.”
Social security isn’t UBI.
Sorry, what does “certain minimum income” mean in your native language?
Sorry, what does “even when he [sic] is unable to take care of himself” in your native language?