Comments by "Scott Franco" (@scottfranco1962) on "Why you are wrong about Universal Basic Income | The power of AI within the hands of the few" video.

1. Universal basic income is communism warmed over and repackaged to look new to todays kids. 2. It will probably look very attractive to the next generations, who find history boring and are ripe and ready to repeat histories biggest mistakes. 3. UBI, as all socialist plans, rapidly devolves in practice to enforced communism. Those receiving it feel less and less incentive to work, while those paying it feel more and more incentive to avoid paying for it, or simply switch teams and become takers themselves. 4. With less and less people providing the income and more and more people taking it, the system rapidly goes out of balance unless more and more force is applied to take more and more from providers. This in turn increases flight from the provider class and accelerates the process in a loop. The final end of this is not good. It never is. It never will be. And yes, mankind is destined to repeat it. Over and over again.
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Redistribution, a nice word for taking people's money and passing out to others, can be called "socialism" if done by the government. Communism is Socialism achieved by force. Since, the last time I checked, nobody works hard to get income and then voluntarily turns it over to the government, socialism is a fantasy and communism is the actual system being advocated. Are we "advancing past the need for economic systems of the past" as in, of course, capitalism? Humm. Socialism/communism is not a new system, has killed of massive numbers of people, has been "reintroduced" several times with a new coat of paint and ends the same: A little of it causes problems, a lot of it kills people. This is hardly an advance. It is hardly new. I'm sorry you don't feel like working, but that's not my problem, I work for a living. Go try it and quit bitching.
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