I think there’s an assumption of innate responsibility in most or all people when approaching UBI.
There were similar assumptions when literacy became widespread or the internet became common – that the masses would use these to become intellectual, wise, and reach a new baseline of culture.
Edward Bernays, Freud’s nephew said something similar in his book Propaganda Universal literacy was supposed to educate the common man to control his environment. Once he could read and write he would have a mind fit to rule. So ran the democratic doctrine. But instead of a mind, universal literacy has given him rubber […]
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