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Do you think UBI will be the future of the world? (lemmy.world)

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I was once talking with one of my classmates and he said that in the future, there will be universal basic income implemented by entire world. I was not convinced at that time and thought he is just being stupid but given the layoffs happening and massive amount of unemployment, I am thinking about this possibility. What do you say?

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[-] gwl 2 points 13 hours ago

OP said rich, not the guy who's only got like $2 million that you know

[-] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

More like 30 million. Not sure about the other two I know less well, but one has private jets, and the other has a Grammy.

They tend to believe things that are convenient for rich people to believe, just like my own stratum does for our own sake, and stratums below that do as well. But, on a personality level, they're the same damn humans as everyone else.

[-] gwl 1 points 5 hours ago

Sounds like a prick to me, and you've just got a high tolerance for bullshit

[-] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

If you're just basing that on the wealth figure I gave, that's circular logic. They're a dick because they're wealthy, so the wealthy are dicks.

If it's the second paragraph, the Lemmy "upper middle class" worldview grates way more, because it's actively hypocritical. You said 2 million. People here are not poor or uneducated, and I'm guessing some have or have that coming to them. Most of the rest have more than 0, which is about the actual median.

Guess what! Kind-of-rich people collectively own most of the capital, and yet everyone thinks they're the proletarian vanguard.

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