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No, not all. For example not a positive right to healthcare. UBI is transparently an attempt to redistribute tax income to private companies such that no opportunity for profit sta…

Sure, just weird that everyone is enamored of a "literary" truth at the expense of grown-up historical research.

I think this is the message the investor class is trying to send to ordinary people: "If we can't find a place to invest at a reasonable rate of return, we will find a way to loot …

Solzhenitsyn's Ex‐Wife Says ‘Gulag’ Is ‘Folklore’: https://www.nytimes.com/1974/02/06/archives/solzhenitsyns-ex...

UBI can also be inflated away to nothing. It's a neoliberal scam.

That would certainly be much better, and I actually came to the Forbes piece from an article that pointed how little of these rare earth metals e-bikes use compared to electric car…

Maybe it's a bit gauche to comment first on your own link, but these quotes from the report seem most salient: "In the long-term, widespread personal vehicle ownership does not app…

There are some really interesting comments in this thread, but I wonder what people think: Where does value come from?

But where does that value come from? Did Bezos create it?

UBI smells like a trojan horse for privatization of what remains of social security, disability, unemployment, etc. I would much rather have a robust national pension system than "…

Here's how you perpetrate a wealth transfer from average homeowners to the rich: 1. Deregulate mortgage lending to cause a housing bubble. 2. When it bursts, bail out the banks, an…

Right, and the enormous pressure constantly put on the average person by advertising and work to somehow be a super being: fitter, happier, more productive, etc, as the fella says.…

My favorite instance of this was an Amazon review that rated a book in part based on cost per page of text.

I wouldn't pay to look at Western media either.

I would settle for 2 four-hour days, I think.

Uhh but weren't the maple trees there before that?