YoBuckStopsHere@lemmy.worldM to Colorado Politics@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year ago2 participants in Denver's basic-income experiment say it's helped them buy a car, rent an apartment, and turn their lives aroundwww.businessinsider.comexternal-linkmessage-square44fedilinkarrow-up1223arrow-down18
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minus-squareshalafi@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down1·1 year agoReasonable opinion that’s not completely, unflinchingly left-wing? Here? Go to the penalty box and think about what you’ve done. Seriously, I had not considered what interest groups would do. The right: “How come them lazy blacks get the same I get?!” The left: “How come privileged whites get the same as black people?”
minus-squareJasSmith@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down2·1 year ago The right: “How come them lazy blacks get the same I get?!” The left: “How come privileged whites get the same as black people?” Great examples! Both of these would be popular narratives, and whoever wins would end up putting their thumb on the “UBI” scales.
Reasonable opinion that’s not completely, unflinchingly left-wing? Here? Go to the penalty box and think about what you’ve done.
Seriously, I had not considered what interest groups would do.
The right: “How come them lazy blacks get the same I get?!”
The left: “How come privileged whites get the same as black people?”
Great examples! Both of these would be popular narratives, and whoever wins would end up putting their thumb on the “UBI” scales.