Ok so if you know it all so well, please do explain to me how and why governments would give billions of unemployed people free money and how this would be sustainable in a long term.
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Ah yes, a one-man opinion mostly based on "how it could be if politicians would be fair towards their citizens and they would listen to me".How Money is Born out of Public Spending and Dies by Taxes
If there's one thing most people don't seem to understand about how money works that I think would really help governments work better in the 21st century, it's that money does not flow in the way we perceive it does. It's an illusion. What money actually does is pop into
We are going to see a push from those who are dreaming about communism and they want everybody to believe that it has never been implemented " correctly " lol , they are likely to be used as useful idiots by big tech . There is also a trend to blur the definition of certain words ( Orwell ) like equality / equity or capitalism / oligarchy . Being anti oligarchy doesn't mean being anti capitalist or a communist . Capitalism allows you to have you own business , be successful , provide for your family , become wealthier ... They don't want that ! It wasn't a surprise to see big tech advocating for UBI , they are truly scared of that transition .Ah yes, a one-man opinion mostly based on "how it could be if politicians would be fair towards their citizens and they would listen to me".
Yes, in a perfect world it could work like this but we are not living in a perfect world. We live in a world full of corrupt, sick, power-hungry people who despite anyone who is not on their level of wealth and/or social status. You can dream that those people will let people under them (as they like to call us? Rats? Peasants? Ants?) enjoy free money for being unemployed.
Don't get me wrong. I would be happy if the world were utopian and everyone could get UBI without any disadvantages like social credit score and fear that one day UBI may disappear without any reason (what you would do in that case after being born into UBI without any job experience and employment perspectives?). As long as still have purpose and life and the possibility to improve our life situation.
Unfortunately, I live long enough to know that there are very powerful people who will do anything to not let this happen. It wouldn't be "fun" for them.
Another thing: I was born in (at that time) a '3rd world country' and with my own hard work I managed to get to the '1st world' and raise my status significantly. I managed to do that since I learned that my fate is in my own hands. A lot of people that I know, who rely on the government, are exactly in the same place where they were 20, 30 years ago. They still blame the government for all their faults in life. I strongly believe that a world where our fate is in our hands is better than a world where we all rely on the money given to us by our 'master'. I can imagine how many people would never evolve if they didn't have to. Why even go to school if you don't have to learn anything because you'll still get UBI? I can see how flat earthers would become a dominant religion in that world
I was born in communist country
At the end of it, but I memorised a few "pictures" from that abstract mental era 
What about things like " intersectionality " or " equity " ? So far the wealthy class has managed to push for the kind of " ecologism " that exclusively impacts poor people , we got a Bill gates schooling everyone about not moving or eating bugs while being the single individual with the biggest carbon footprint in the world , for example he doesn't have a privet jet he has a fleet of private jets . When I see big corporations pushing this kind of things , I don't even give them the benefit of the doubt , I know that they are using that against us and the result is a constant transfer of wealth from the bottom to the top .
Yeah, sure all of those sets of ideas are in play. These ideologies aren't left/right, they are universal, so all political cabinets contemplate how they can implement them. The balls are thrown up in the air, that must be the reason nobody has any balls..
actually people still talk about capitalism/communism/marxism all the time but perhaps not so much in the USA, which after all is just a small fraction of the global population. For example a Marxist might consider what is happening as primitive accumulation within a modern context. They might say that there has been a massive increase in demand for creative content but a shortage of the means for producing it - therefore capitalists will expropriate the means of production - in this case by using AI to steal the cultural capital that enables creation. Analogous to the famous enclosure of the commons.
Plenty of people with an opinion that art should be made for free. Because "I don't enjoy my day job so nobody should". Sometimes you can hear it right in your face. People have no shame in admitting that we should do music for free and they shouldn't need to pay for it.
Yes, people /laymen talk about this in that way, but it is not state-of-the-art in political science at all. These are crude 18th century ideas, which has been transformed numerous times since, and our societies and cultures are very different today. So it hurts me when I see people talk in the language of those old dichotomies, which is still promoted by manipulating influencers and groups online. We have come so much further, and know so much more than what is being displayed and promoted online, yet this old stuff is still dominating public discourse. It's so sad to see and I think it misleads a lot of people into imaginary conflicts today.. but that's "soup de jour".
completely disagree but can you link me out to some of the new theoretical work you mention and I will give it a read and maybe change my views. Thanks
Possibly your response is to me even tho I said nothing about communism - my point has been to promote lobbying for an UBI which for some obscure reason seems to be opposed. Anyhow I take your advice
Plenty of people with an opinion that art should be made for free. Because "I don't enjoy my day job so nobody should". Sometimes you can hear it right in your face. People have no shame in admitting that we should do music for free and they shouldn't need to pay for it.
But now even 'artists', like one of this famous singer/producer girl (I don't wanna put the wrong name here) is advocating for the removal of copyrights whatsoever. But she was married to a billionaire and now she is dating a popular DJ/producer - the son of a magnate family, so why would she care about people who may need money? Do they even exist? It's so abstract when you have enough money for a few generations upfront to live a luxurious life, ain't that right?
Work for free.
Don't own anything.
Advocate for digital currency (ideally with an expiration date).
Keep scrolling TikTok.
Enjoy the amazing life of a peasant addicted to digital goods
Remember when John Fogerty was sued by his former record label for sounding too much like himself on his new label?
