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James A. Robichaux
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Photographer, writer, pop-culture critic, journalist, educator, and inter-parish man-of-mystery.
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James A. Robichaux
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Could Bernie Sanders's rejection of UBI be at least in part because he perceives UBI to be about job losses due to automation?
If yes, could that be because almost everyone who has tried to persuade him to back UBI has said that it is about automation?
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James A. Robichaux
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Whenever I hear stories about people treating service workers poorly and unfairly, I imagine the perpetrators to be anti-UBI.
That is also why we need to make the strongest arguments, arguments for bodily autonomy, when arguing for UBI.
#BasicIncome
#geoism
#ThisIsWhyUBI
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James A. Robichaux
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Why would you object to a policy based on having to pay in taxes money that would not be in your possession in the first place without the spending generated by the policy?
It's like objecting to eating because you'll have to take a dump later. HELLO!
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James A. Robichaux
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Taxation *cannot be* a cost of UBI, because the entire point of UBI is that people will SPEND the money, sending it TO the people pretending to be burdened with the taxes "to pay for it."
And I don't understand why UBI advocates don't point this out.
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James A. Robichaux
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THAT is why the more intelligent anti-UBI people are opposed to it. They just *claim* that their objection has to do with other things like taxes because that is an objection that is easier for them to defend.
DON'T FALL FOR IT.
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James A. Robichaux
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I can't imagine the magnitude of the break that you need and deserve, Heidi.
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James A. Robichaux
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But, if you are someone who treats wait staff, service workers, and employees like chattel or robots, you'll be paying the highest body rent in a UBI society.
Which is why, if you are such a person, you probably already are staunchly opposed to UBI.
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James A. Robichaux
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This couple was one of the two last clients whose house this lady cleaned (once every other week) into her 70s when her kids were financially successful, she was driving a nice vehicle, and she didn't really need the money anymore.
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James A. Robichaux
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I know a couple who had a housekeeper whom they treated almost as family. If you were observing and didn't know better, it would've looked like someone went visit a friend and slowly started taking out cleaning supplies and eventually started cleaning while the convo tapered off.
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James A. Robichaux
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If you are the kind of employer or customer who treats the people doing your bidding like human beings, like social equals (or better), then universal basic income won't cost you much if anything at all.
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James A. Robichaux
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Mais, quoi?
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James A. Robichaux
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If you are the kind of employer or customer - and universal basic income will help us blur the distinction between employers and customers - who currently relies heavily degradation and intimidation to get people to do your bidding, you will pay a big cost (or quickly adapt.)
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James A. Robichaux
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That rent is the difference between what you must do now to get people to do your bidding and whatever additional measures you will have to take to get people to do your bidding once everyone has unconditional access to enough money to avoid homelessness and hunger.
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James A. Robichaux
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I don't know!
Maybe?
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James A. Robichaux
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The cost of universal basic income is not the total quantity of dollars spent on UBI payments (nor is it any "net transfer.")
The cost of universal basic income is the rent that anyone and everyone currently collects off of other people's lack of consenting power. twitter.com/JamesRobichaux…
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James A. Robichaux
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James A. Robichaux
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automation!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Scott Santens🧢
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Our entire democracy is a muddled mess. We desperately need voting reforms like ranked-choice voting, automatic voter registration, open primaries, election holidays, and Democracy Dollars to wash out the influence of lobbyists. As for Iowa, these caucuses are just plain weird.
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"America used to be a beacon of freedom, liberty and anti-corruption efforts," says Nataliya Gumenyuk, a Ukrainian journalist who grew up admiring the U.S.
"Now a lot of Ukrainians feel like ... we are by ourselves." trib.al/nKkfPkj
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James A. Robichaux
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Well, some of the JG proponents are for reducing paid-labor hours per week and adjusting the hourly wage so that the total take-home pay is the same.
But, given how private sector jobs might respond to that, I don't see how that wouldn't be inflationary.
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