John Rogers
We have enough evidence for UBI in general that this policy should be a given. But the difference is, to understand UBI works is to believe that people are fundamentally good. And a big chunk of society is built around the belief, *must maintain the belief* that people are fundamentally bad.

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Show threadJohn RogersFeb 4
If "all people probably need is a little help, and its wrong for people to hoard that help" was actually internalized in the US, entire power bases would collapse. One of the retirement porjects is a book on how a rabidly Christian nation obsessed with sin turned Greed into a virtue.
Show threadDoug WadeFeb 4
@johnrogers.bsky.social I’m not certain you even have to believe that people are fundamentally good to support UBI. I think you only have to believe that the people who are fundamentally good can provide for ourselves and the people who are fundamentally bad simultaneously.