The Angine de Poitrine Argument for UBI (scottsantens.substack.com)

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Why Angine de Poitrine's viral microtonal math rock KEXP session, Ireland's permanent basic income for artists, and Albert Einstein are three sides of the same human triangle

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[-] ChicoSuave@lemmy.world 8 points 5 days ago

I want UBI but this article was absolutely not worth the time to read. The author uses something weird to grab attention and then links it with pseudo scientific spiritual thinking.

Just give people UBI if costs to live are required. It's that simple. Keep the economy flowing by injecting it with lots of little investments.

No need to invoke Einstein or math rock. Just make the fucking point.

[-] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 5 points 5 days ago

just grabbing clicks by mentioning Angine De Poitrine.

[-] Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 4 points 5 days ago

GPS satellites have to correct for his equations or your phone would send you to the wrong address. The energy released by splitting an atom is accounted for by his equations. Our entire picture of space and time is his.

While Einstein's value is incalculable, the author's attempt to put a monetary value is bad.

Without Einstein, GPS would have a mystery fudge factor built in like so many other engineering projects.

The association between Einstein and the atom bomb is historical, not based on his work. E=mc^2 applies just as much to a flashlight as the atom bomb. In Einstein's own book he uses the example of a flashlight. The energy from splitting the atom is from the experimentally discovered binding energy. There is no way to theoretically predict that binding energy from relativity.

[-] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 1 points 5 days ago

Einstein was not allowed to participate at Los Alamos, he was considered "too liberal" by the military. He had no desire to work on the bomb.

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