According to the debate, they had their reasons. But still -- when one hundred and eighty six nations say one thing, and two say another, you have to wonder about the two.
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Fun fact, universal basic income leads to more people improving their lives and getting educated, working better jobs, reducing homelessness, and strengthening the job market, etc.
That's more than just free food! And yet it reduces all the bad things you blame on free stuff!
Then they should have talked about universal basic income. You gotta dig deeper than that. I'm responding to the bait that I saw. And UBI reduces all of the bag things for drones. Who's paying for this again? Btw, I grew up in it, and fought my way out. The depressing truth is that if the situation you are in isn't enough motivation to get yourself out, then I have to believe that you don't want to get out. Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. I'm not saying that we don't get out heads, and hearts stepped on by all the crabs wearing timberland boots over here. The tendency ought to be to look to our own, as opposed to others. Others keep us in bag life situations. They didn't put us there. Out own did that. All of this is general stuff. Something for nothing isn't a lifestyle I can abide.
Get a load of the temporarily embarrassed billionaire over here. He's currently pulling him self up by his bootstraps good and proper right now and those proles can f off if they think they can get their unwashed hands on his (future) money.
So, first off, what exactly is the most important thing people buy? It's food, and it'd water. So free food is the next best thing after universal basic income, and is in itself a form of universal income. Second, you say that it's not rich people and corporations that put us into this situation, and I just want to know where you got this idea, because it's not poor people who established a capitalist society, or artificially inflated the price of basic needs, causing people to give up less necessary items because they couldn't afford both housing and food. It's also not poor people who decided that the minimum wage shouldn't be livable. All of those things where done by rich people who were born into the right families and didn't work for a single day in their lives. So tell me again how this is poor people's fault?
Tell the heirs of rich people to give up their free money first
I am on disability and can easily live on it
I still work because it turns out I like to feel useful, even if I can't contribute fully
The vast majority want to feel useful, few will choose to just subsist on UBI. Even outside my own anecdote, this has been proven with every single UBI experiment