• Cryophilia@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    All I’m reading from the OP is “gimme gimme gimme”

    There are good arguments in favor of UBI but this is just whiny.

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      1 year ago

      The argument is that a person can be willing and able to work, but because resources were distributed unevenly before we were all born, it’s possible to be homeless and hungry. Or more likely, scraping by with a job while a small percentage of wealthy people take a cut of everything you do and you have to be careful not to displease them.

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          1 year ago

          Well it certainly drove some discussion.

          I think talking about land, some people think it’s about buying a nice house or something, but really it’s about being able to exist in any physical space. You’re born and now you’ve got to be somewhere, you’ve got to sleep somewhere and work somewhere. If you’re lucky your parents own something. If you’re not you’ve got to pay. (Of course even owning you’ve got to pay tax but that’s another conversation)

          • Cryophilia@lemmy.world
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            1 year ago

            Everyone needs an income source and needs to pay for necessities.

            Some people have income purely through inheritance and that is not fair. It’s not just to do with land. “Trust fund babies” have been a thing since forever.

            • LesserAbe@lemmy.worldOP
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              1 year ago

              You’re right, everyone needs to pay for necessities. Some people don’t need an income source, because of inheritance.

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        1 year ago

        Your original post is really shit and no one will take you seriously. Everyone has to contribute for society to exist. Even if land was free, we would love in a society. There is no living “alone”. Everyone lives together and everyone contributes. Now, is it the reality currently? Maybe not, but your post does not even address that and it makes just some wild statement about we “have to pay to live and that’s atrocious” while in reality, even in the goddamn wild you have to pay. Not with money but with labour which is what money is about.