• TranscendentalEmpire@lemmy.today
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    6 hours ago

    That’s pretty fucking stupid since people worked on stuff outside of subsistence farming well before money existed.

    Economics existed before capitalism… Macroeconomics does not solely consist of the evaluation of currency. You can do a modern economic evaluation of subsistence farming communities, or a historical macroeconomic evaluation of previous societies.

    Macroeconomics studies large scale forces of the economy, like a population’s effect on productivity, labor policy, government type, taxation, or even how weather will affect food growth.

    In your bleak worldview humanity must enslave itself.

    Lol, even in economies where people equally own the means of production, individual people still have to be productive…

    You are just a lazy ass who wants to receive the benefits of a socially and economically equitable society without labouring for it.

    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.

    I started this conversation by arguing we should have a system that already insured our needs were met… You just want your needs met and then extra money so you can be a lazy ass and not contribute anything to society.

    UBI is a scam that billionaires put forward because they know cutting a check for 500 bucks every month is a hell of a lot cheaper alternative than providing food, education, housing, and healthcare.

    Maybe learn a iota about the economy before you start gargling Andrew Yang’s ballsack…