• Zorcron@piefed.zip
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    19 hours ago

    I suppose the common response would be that preventing billionaires from hoarding insane amounts of wealth would remove incentive from them to “innovate and create jobs”. Not that I buy that as being true or worth the wealth disparity currently seen.

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      19 hours ago

      To that I’m thinking that humans have an innate desire to innovate, and we wouldn’t need jobs if we had fair taxation of the ultrawealthy and UBI.

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        15 hours ago

        Yeah, I mean whether you subscribe to the belief or not, that is the general liberal thinking. If they thought differently, they probably wouldn’t be liberals anymore.

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        14 hours ago

        IMO the main argument against UBI is:

        “I think all the money would go to landlords because I don’t know what elasticity is but nonetheless feel qualified to speak about economics.”