Sorry disabled people, there might be a wide spectrum of disability with different access and support needs, but we're not going to do any individual assessments to ensure your autonomy is respected and you get the kind of help you want. It's one size fits all, now. And you can forget about support to enter the workplace....

in the UK some people were able to almost use the dole like a UBI during the crushing recession of the late 70s and 80s - take the payments without looking for a new job, and spend the time doing non-profit or low-profit work like art, music or political organizing. What's changed? UK benefit system is now geared to harrass the long-term unemployed into work, the actual amount of money is much lower than it used to be, and the costs of housing has ballooned due the end of social housing and increasingly hostile laws against squatting.

Understood.

• Cutting a check for everyone without much fuss makes sense, at least in the short term. Long-term: I am too lazy to think or talk about this in further detail, but in short, I think it's easy to argue that additional structural changes beyond UBI would be needed for equity in society to be established and maintained.
• I agree that implementing UBI today would be a hard sell to many people, not even accounting for the counter politics from anyone right of centre.
• Also, techbros love simplistic solutions to complex issues that let them stop caring and go back to trying to suck from VC money hoses.

I think something like UBI will succeed but it won't look to us like UBI. Like, maybe it seems stupid, but as far as political systems go, the key is persuasion in absurdity and narrative. To persuade people into UBI it has to be dressed up politically as --something else-- in the same way that all kinds of welfare (social and corporate) tends to get simultaneously denied and reinforced with conflicting narratives.

Once enough disparate and contradictory parties are convinced that "more of the good guys benefit from this than the bad guys", it gets locked in and becomes political cannon. Until later when the political systems feint undoing it again for a different set of points.

"The Treadmill and the Poor Law are in full vigour, then?" said Scrooge.

"Both very busy, sir."

"Oh! I was afraid, from what you said at first, that something had occurred to stop them in their useful course," said Scrooge. "I'm very glad to hear it."

"Under the impression that they scarcely furnish Christian cheer of mind or body to the multitude," returned the gentleman, "a few of us are endeavouring to raise a fund to buy the Poor some meat and drink, and means of warmth. We choose this time, because it is a time, of all others, when Want is keenly felt, and Abundance rejoices. What shall I put you down for?"

"Nothing!" Scrooge replied.

"You wish to be anonymous?"

"I wish to be left alone," said Scrooge. "Since you ask me what I wish, gentlemen, that is my answer. I don't make merry myself at Christmas, and I can't afford to make idle people merry. I help to support the establishments I have mentioned: they cost enough: and those who are badly off must go there."

"Many can't go there; and many would rather die."

"If they would rather die," said Scrooge, "they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population.

I thought it was bears.

1. make an economic system which is presumed to collapse at full employment
2. make it so you have to work to live
3. ?????

Yeah, and they recently just admitted this, all this work stuff is just a scam!

1. dump alla this dumb shit into your head
2. remember it with the bit of your brain that tells fucking wild but true stories

positive https://www.econlib.org/archives/2010/07/the_neo-reactio.html