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Seattle gave low-income residents $500 a month no strings attached. Employment rates nearly doubled. (finance.yahoo.com)

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A Seattle basic income pilot gave low-income residents $500 a month, nearly doubling employment rates. >

Some participants reported getting new housing, while others saw their employment incomes rise. >

Basic income pilots nationwide have seen noteworthy success, despite conservative opposition.

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[–] MajorHavoc@programming.dev 59 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

Yep. We now know Univeraal Basic Income (UBI) works well, even when it's not remotely enough to live on. People buy transport, or childcare, or medicine, or whatever they really need, to get to work.

My un-generous hot take is that leaders opposed to UBI sure look like they're only opposed, because UBI disrupts their plans to establish a slave class in the social strata.

[–] jol@discuss.tchncs.de 19 points 4 months ago (4 children)

But that's what I don't understand. You can't have a slave class if they're all dead. Isn't a slave class more useful, more productive, if they're alive, reproducing, and consuming?

[–] ChicoSuave@lemmy.world 12 points 4 months ago

No one is dying right away. While the masses are ground into mortality, they can get a few shifts out of em.

[–] chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

The idea is for being alive to be contingent on doing whatever miserable low paid work is demanded.

[–] The_Che_Banana@beehaw.org 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

why do you think roe vs wade was overturned?

[–] jol@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Exactly, that's the kind of lawful evil I expect.

[–] The_Che_Banana@beehaw.org 0 points 4 months ago

Everything the nazis did was "legal"

[–] jorp@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago

You just need a high enough turnover whether through forced birth legislation, making it difficult or impossible to get birth control or sex education, or increasing immigration

[–] antlion@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 4 months ago

Bad idea. Next thing you know these guys will have enough free time to vote. And they’ll probably vote for stupid stuff like child care, education, bicycle infrastructure, and criminalizing food waste. It will basically become illegal to make a profit on basic human needs. And then what’s left for profiting?