tintory@lemm.ee to politics @lemmy.world · 2年前Why Republicans are fighting the basic-income programs many cities and states are adopting: 'Is money a birthright now?'www.businessinsider.comexternal-linkmessage-square120fedilinkarrow-up1410arrow-down14cross-posted to: politics@beehaw.org
arrow-up1406arrow-down1external-linkWhy Republicans are fighting the basic-income programs many cities and states are adopting: 'Is money a birthright now?'www.businessinsider.comtintory@lemm.ee to politics @lemmy.world · 2年前message-square120fedilinkcross-posted to: politics@beehaw.org
minus-squarewhoelectroplateuntil@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up6·2年前IDK, he seemed pretty clear when he said that “the assurance of a certain minimum income for everyone, or a sort of floor below which nobody need fall even when he [sic] is unable to take care of himself, appears not only to be a wholly legitimate protection against a common risk to all, but a necessary part of the Great Society in which the individual no longer has specific claims on the members of the particular small group into which he was born.”
minus-squareSwingingKoala@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down6·2年前Social security isn’t UBI.
minus-squarewhoelectroplateuntil@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up4arrow-down1·edit-22年前Sorry, what does “certain minimum income” mean in your native language?
minus-squareSwingingKoala@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down8·edit-22年前Sorry, what does “even when he [sic] is unable to take care of himself” in your native language?
IDK, he seemed pretty clear when he said that “the assurance of a certain minimum income for everyone, or a sort of floor below which nobody need fall even when he [sic] is unable to take care of himself, appears not only to be a wholly legitimate protection against a common risk to all, but a necessary part of the Great Society in which the individual no longer has specific claims on the members of the particular small group into which he was born.”
Social security isn’t UBI.
Sorry, what does “certain minimum income” mean in your native language?
Sorry, what does “even when he [sic] is unable to take care of himself” in your native language?