Comments by "Historia, Magistra Vitae" (@Historia.Magistra.Vitae.) on "Could America Handle Universal Basic Income?" video.

  1. "That absolutely needs to change …." People like you always seem to forget that other people have to work, so that you can have those "basic needs".
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  2.  @seilaoquemvc2  "It’s impossible under capitalism, " Wrong. It is not, and you don't even have Capitalism in America in the first place. You have a mixed economy system, not Capitalism.
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  3. "Capitalism has failed, " Wrong. Capitalism doesn't fail, and your country doesn't even have a capitalist economy... you have a mixed economy, just like almost every modern day country. Governments have failed.
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  4. "Humans are not built to be inactive." While true, people would just focus on their own hobbies etc. which only makes things worse.
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  5. "I think most people wouldn't just sit around and do nothing either." For the most part they would, or they would consume entertainment etc.
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  6. so your solution is just blatant theft?
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  7. "Whilst unfettered capitalism reigns supreme " Wrong. It doesn't, and such a thing is properly known as Laissez-faire, and it hasn't been a thing anywhere.
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  8.  @WaterCarrier07  : The point is, that "unfettered capitalism" is not a thing, anywhere.
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  9.  @WaterCarrier07  : Because no country uses nor has such an economic system.
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  10. Wrong. That is not how capitalism works and capitalism is not even a thing in any country. Almost every modern day country has a mixed economy.
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  11. "The problem with this program from an American perspective is that it decreases corporate power" Wrong. Has nothing to do with some America. The problem with UBI is that it eventually kills the economy with a perpetuated inflation. It is economics 101.
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  12.  @seilaoquemvc2  "I’d say what really happens is that people like you forget that people has to work while Elon musk do nothing so he can accumulate by himself a crapton of money." Elon Musk doesn't need to anything anymore since he has provided services and products to the people and to the society as a whole, which people are willing to buy and pay for. He already did his share of work.
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  13. "It will increase quality of life" Nope. It won't.
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  14. "If you choose to use your time to help stray cats (for example - other God Causes are available), then surely that would benefit society as a whole?" Not really, since all you are doing is moving people away from the workforce to do other mundane things and suddenly you realize that the government doesn't get enough money back from the system to pay for your UBI which allows you to do mundane things.
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  15. @sfperalta: "that the arguments of the proponents are generally based on empirical evidence" Nope. Try again.
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  16.  @leobigelow7021  : It was a reply to the OP, not to you. I agree with you.
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  17. "it would give the common people power. " No it wouldn't. On the contrary, you would be even more dependent on government handouts, and government in general since they can decide how much and why those handouts are given.
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