Like I said before, amazing how people will argue against their better interests. Really bold of you to assume I’m just lazy, too.

It’s really funny that you got this bent out of shape when someone just asks “why not both”

Ah well can’t help everyone, especially when they won’t bother trying, right?

That’s pretty fucking stupid since people worked on stuff outside of subsistence farming well before money existed. You’re so wrapped up in how things are and how you think things should work you’re not seeing anything potential. In your bleak worldview humanity must enslave itself. Maybe if you had a perspective that was more focused on the happiness and well-being of humans you could use that oh-so-massive big brain of yours to figure out a way for people to have their needs met and have a functioning society, but your motivations are clearly set in a different direction.

Whatever man if you care more about macroeconomics than actually helping people that’s a pretty sociopathic take. We could easily pay for a ubi with tax reform and it is one of those things that generates more money than we put into it, but what do I know, I’m someone you assume is an idiot.

That’s missing the point of my metaphor.

Squares come in different sizes and colors. There is a spectrum of squares, some very small and some very large, with all sorts of colors.

This does not mean circles are squares.

It’s amazing to me how some people fight so hard against something that would benefit them. Like, if I offered to send you $500 a month no strings attached, would you really be against it?

They have done a lot of studies and test runs with UBIs, they seem to work pretty well and most people use them to pay off debts, save up some, educate themselves and still work. Iirc employment actually went up and people were more productive because they didn’t have to worry as much. (Not that productivity should like, be a goal that magically makes something valid to exist and if it isn’t should be scrapped) You’ve probably seen a bunch of stuff online about it so I doubt I’d convince you of anything at this point.

As for inflation, looks like people can price gouge their way to hyper inflation just fine without a ubi, so yeah, not sure why you’d be against a check every month.

A global society where science has advanced enough and everyone is wealthy enough to be able to do this? They can do what they want with it I guess, we’ll never see it

We could be solarpunk. Like, right now. With everything using clean energy and plants everywhere.

So that goes back to my original comment, porque no las dos?

Did you mean to say if they weren’t a right?

Porque no las dos

I like your funny words magic man

This made me sad

This guy breaks it down pretty well I think

Bruv it might be time to take a break from the Internet for a bit and focus up on your personal life, this seems like real hardcore bad world syndrome and, while I feel you, I really do, this comment sounds like your mental health is in a bad place and you might want to take a break.

Ah, so passing on the tradition of not supporting your children, got it

Oh, I see, you misunderstood here. I was doing this old school traditional thing called “social graces”, which evidently you’re unaware of. It’s so people can save face, among other things. I was using a tactical social maneuver called “giving you the benefit of the doubt” and “giving you an out”, so that you could make yourself look like less the fool.

Since you’re clearly uneducated on social graces, you failed to “read the room” and what you posted could be interpreted as insulting most of the people commenting, but was vague enough to be about other people.

So I gave you the opportunity to explain yourself in a polite way, and now you’ve thrown it back into my face with an insult.

I had no idea I was talking to the societal equivalent of an angsty slug, but that’s what the benefit of the doubt is for.

You sad, lonely thing you.

Are they? Disney has been around like, what, about a century? Popular media makes money. How exactly do you think these culture monopolies are temporary?

Til

A sack of potatoes and cat litter.

From my mom who usually shops year round for Christmas to save the hassle of buying at the end of the year.

My siblings got stuff that they wanted and could use and I got… Those two things in a very flimsy laundry basket.

She did not approve of my girlfriend and probably me living with her.

They weren’t even wrapped.