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willingly agree to expropriate itself

[...] recently even billionaires have been paying lip service to the idea that some version of the policy could make existing social spending more efficient, labor markets more flexible, and so on. As we have stressed, however, implementing any version that could plausibly be called liberating for …

—p.175 Catalyst Vol. 1 No. 4 The Basic Income Illusion (151) by Alex Gourevitch, Lucas Stanczyk
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we, all of us together, should

In our view, the tendency persistently to overlook these facts owes to a certain familiar but problematic approach to normative inquiry. The problematic orientation is on display whenever theorists on the Left — rightly concerned by the many social ills we face — ask in response what sorts of polic…

—p.153 The Basic Income Illusion (151) by Alex Gourevitch, Lucas Stanczyk
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UBI is already a form of communism

Here, then, is the fundamental problem. Those who advocate for an emancipatory basic income policy while showing considerably less interest in the persistent dilemmas of class politics have forgotten, or failed to see, that what they are pushing for is already a form of communism. There is conseque…

—p.153 The Basic Income Illusion (151) by Alex Gourevitch, Lucas Stanczyk
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7 years, 10 months ago

UBI is already a form of communism

Here, then, is the fundamental problem. Those who advocate for an emancipatory basic income policy while showing considerably less interest in the persistent dilemmas of class politics have forgotten, or failed to see, that what they are pushing for is already a form of communism. There is conseque…

—p.153 The Basic Income Illusion (151) by Alex Gourevitch, Lucas Stanczyk
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7 years, 10 months ago

UBI is already a form of communism

Here, then, is the fundamental problem. Those who advocate for an emancipatory basic income policy while showing considerably less interest in the persistent dilemmas of class politics have forgotten, or failed to see, that what they are pushing for is already a form of communism. There is conseque…

—p.153 The Basic Income Illusion (151) by Alex Gourevitch, Lucas Stanczyk