Just because something is easier to implement doesn’t mean it will work better.
Honestly, that’s the biggest hurdle our current economic systems are facing. People go for the easy option that seems like it should work instead of the longer term plan that has more flexibility and chance for success.
The problem with your suggestion is that it still hinges on the capitalist system to provide for people. And thus is far easier to exploit.
Yes, and then that smaller firm fails because they take too many risks that have little chance of success. They end up being bought up by the larger firms, and all their assets put towards those higher value investments.
I mean… yeah… that’s what UBI is.
I was criticizing UBI as a concept, not how it’s implemented.
Is there a specific mention of that, or just something people assume? I googled a single reddit thread, which clearly makes me an expert (/s), and it seemed as though money was really just kind of a fuzzy concept up until they declared they didn’t use money sometime around Star Trek 4.
Yes, but if you do it in the form of currency without changing the system in which the currency is used, it’s just feeding that system. Are capitalists suddenly going to be less greedy, and more likely to care about their compatriots instead of eager to exploit them because we give them more power and more money?
No. They won’t. They’ll just find better ways to exploit this sudden surge of basically free money.
At best it would prop up capitalism until we can replace it with something better.
It’s literally just giving people more money to shove into the capitalist system. You don’t change a system by feeding it.
I won’t say it’s a bad thing… but it’s not a solution. It’s a stop gap.
Just because something is made a democracy in principle doesn’t mean it’s democracy in action.
Often these proto-democracies are more prone to corruptive influence because their populace is under-educated and eager for someone to give them easy answers to their problems.
That’s a major reason the US is in the state it is, despite there still being a great deal of political power in the hands of the populace.
The rule of internet polls is that the funniest answer is always over-represented.
If they wanted to live, they should have gotten a car.
/s
Ah, so you see a mirror and you don’t like it.
I never said it didn’t happen, I said you had to take steps to make it not happen.
Why are you like this? With the incessant need to be right and everyone else wrong?
Ah, so not even speaking from experience, then.
It doesn’t happen to me, but I took a proactive approach to prevent it from happening. I don’t remember what that action was, since I did it years and years ago… but I know it’s possible. You just have to literally more than nothing to prevent these things.
Or you could switch to linux… but that takes an even more proactive approach.
Some people are really into South Park.
So not really the flights themselves, just the regulation overseeing the flights.
They’re both trash people who tried to use the other to make themselves look better.
In the end they both came out covered in shit.
No, one should not trust the US by default, but one also shouldn’t dismiss the conclusion just because the US is one of the ones who came to it.
I mean, is the US really the metric you want to use? If anyone is even slightly better, even fractionally, than the US it means they’re doing fine? Seems like too low a bar to me.
The more that someone drinks it, the higher their likelihood of dying.