2023 will mark ten years of my advocating hard for unconditional basic income. At this point, one of the things that annoys me most is the new claim from conspiracy-fueled people that the rich and powerful fully support UBI and want to use it to make a subservient population.
First of all, most obviously, UBI is unconditional. It’s in the damn definition. If cash comes with strings attached, it’s not UBI. So you can’t make the argument that UBI will be conditional. That’s like vegans deciding to argue against eating carrots, because carrots are made out of meat. Can you […]
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