irelephant [he/him]@lemmy.dbzer0.com to Flippanarchy@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish · 1 month agothe economy is a social constructlemmy.dbzer0.comimagemessage-square105linkfedilinkarrow-up11.1Karrow-down127file-text
arrow-up11.07Karrow-down1imagethe economy is a social constructlemmy.dbzer0.comirelephant [he/him]@lemmy.dbzer0.com to Flippanarchy@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish · 1 month agomessage-square105linkfedilinkfile-text
Transcript A tweet saying “bruh the economy isn’t even real, we literally fucking made it up, just let people have food wtf”
minus-squaresome_guy@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up22arrow-down1·1 month ago“If we gave them food and housing, how would we force them to perform the labor that generates all my wealth?” -1%
minus-squaremorphballganon@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up5·1 month agoYou make rice, beans, most veggies and micro-apartments ultra cheap and subsidized, so everyone can at least survive. People will be motivated to upgrade, which incentivizes work.
minus-squareDeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 month agoWell, if automation replaces people, no one would have to work, we can all benefit from UBI funded by robot manufacturing.
minus-squareObliviousEnlightenment@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·1 month agoPfffffft UBI, they’ll just let us starve fam
minus-squareFrezik@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 month agoUntil they realize that you can’t sell overpriced cars to starving people. Then they’ll concede UBI. That said, UBI is pretending to be socialism, but it’s rooted in capitalism.
minus-squareObliviousEnlightenment@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 month agoThey can move upmarket and just sell to each other
minus-squareDeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up4arrow-down4·1 month agoThis is why I hate when the libs on Lemmy/Reddit keep advocating for gun control. You have no leverage if you give up all the guns to the state.
minus-squaresome_guy@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 month agoThis degree of optimism suggests that we have wildly different takes on the world.
“If we gave them food and housing, how would we force them to perform the labor that generates all my wealth?”
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You make rice, beans, most veggies and micro-apartments ultra cheap and subsidized, so everyone can at least survive. People will be motivated to upgrade, which incentivizes work.
Well, if automation replaces people, no one would have to work, we can all benefit from UBI funded by robot manufacturing.
Pfffffft UBI, they’ll just let us starve fam
Until they realize that you can’t sell overpriced cars to starving people. Then they’ll concede UBI.
That said, UBI is pretending to be socialism, but it’s rooted in capitalism.
They can move upmarket and just sell to each other
This is why I hate when the libs on Lemmy/Reddit keep advocating for gun control. You have no leverage if you give up all the guns to the state.
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This degree of optimism suggests that we have wildly different takes on the world.