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Originally Posted by blankall
UBI under our current system is just wealth redistribution. It's no different than expanding the current welfare system, which is already teeming with abuse.
In order for it to actually work, you need a system where labour is largely no longer required and the work is being done by government owned machines. In other words, at this point, it's science fiction. It's a good philosophical talking point, that can spur on conversation about inequality and ways to improve our current system. However, it's an ideal that would be a huge disaster if implemented.
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Isn't the point of UBI, in part, to completely eliminate abuse of the system? If everybody is getting the same basic amount, how do you play that system when it's so simple? Removal of an ungainly and misused system that is currently in place would be part of the attraction.
I also don't quite understand the 'poor people are lazy, they just won't work' argument. If the UBI is a guaranteed amount, then working beyond that would simply augment the income of each person. With the movement away from full time to part time jobs, this would actually help to fill positions on the lower end of the spectrum.
Absolute destruction of the current system is a selling point.