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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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[–] 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