irelephant [he/him]@lemmy.dbzer0.com to Flippanarchy@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish · 2 months agothe economy is a social constructlemmy.dbzer0.comimagemessage-square103linkfedilinkarrow-up11.1Karrow-down127file-text
arrow-up11.08Karrow-down1imagethe economy is a social constructlemmy.dbzer0.comirelephant [he/him]@lemmy.dbzer0.com to Flippanarchy@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish · 2 months agomessage-square103linkfedilinkfile-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-squareDeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up1·2 months agoWell, if automation replaces people, no one would have to work, we can all benefit from UBI funded by robot manufacturing.
minus-squaresome_guy@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 months agoThis degree of optimism suggests that we have wildly different takes on the world.
minus-squareObliviousEnlightenment@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·2 months agoPfffffft UBI, they’ll just let us starve fam
minus-squareFrezik@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 months 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-up1·2 months agoThey can move upmarket and just sell to each other
minus-squareDeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up4arrow-down4·2 months 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.
Well, if automation replaces people, no one would have to work, we can all benefit from UBI funded by robot manufacturing.
This degree of optimism suggests that we have wildly different takes on the world.
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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