• Mycatiskai@lemmy.ca
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      11 months ago

      What value is a universal basic income to the shareholders? That is the question to ask in this capitalist hellscape.

      • lad@programming.dev
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        11 months ago

        I’d say that sometimes it may even be beneficial to shareholders because they will not have to deal with people in the company that are there only to up the workspace numbers. You know, those job positions that only exist because of how wrecked the system is now

    • tinkeringidiot@lemmy.world
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      10 months ago

      Maybe one day many, many years from now when there are far fewer humans and machines have taken over nearly all production. UBI isn’t feasible on this side of the coming demographic boogaloo.