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Originally Posted by belsarius
And you are ok with that?
It doesn't take much of a moral highground to get above - "people should be destitute so I can have someone clean my toilet for minimum wage."
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What's the option here. Are you stating these jobs shouldn't exist? Office workers should clean their own toilets?
Once again, this is a distortion of an argument. Obviously, no one likes the idea of having to clean a toilet for low pay. This is the world of unskilled labour, however. These jobs need to be done, and although cleaning toilets was the example, there are many other examples.
You may just be arguing that people working these jobs deserve more pay. Once again, this is just classic wealth distribution. In which case, the there are much better options than UBI. For example, a government stipend to just pay people who are actually working more. At the end of the day, this runs into the same problems that all government funded economic programs do, inflation, tax avoidance, etc..