Mastodawn

The Epstein Class believes that providing citizens with enough money to live a decent life while not requiring them to work will spoil them and turn them into useless marshmallows with toxic ideas, anti-social behaviors, and will actively tear at the social fabric.

Many experiments in Universal Basic Income have proven this to NOT be the case.

However, empirically, it turns out that giving someone 50 billion dollars causes them to cease making useful contributions to society, turns them into useless marshmallows with toxic ideas, anti-social behaviors, and they actively tear at the social fabric.

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johnny anhedonic 2d ago

@mralancooper i don't think they believe that, it's just what they have to say because saying “we don't want to pay you enough to have food and shelter because then there would be less money for us, and you are an extremely replaceable resource” would be less aspirational.

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Nuwagaba Gift 1d ago

@thegarbagebird
If we could have our own food and shelter without having to pay for them, would that make us free from them?

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johnny anhedonic 1d ago

@nuwagaba2 it would certainly help.

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Nuwagaba Gift 1d ago

@thegarbagebird
That's great. Can i share with you about my project?

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johnny anhedonic 23h ago

@nuwagaba2 sure, lay it on me

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Nuwagaba Gift

@thegarbagebird
It's about fighting hunger in my community, I work with 12 young volunteer farmers to make this a reality by growing food for the needy, educate local farmers with advanced agricultural skills to help them improve on their production as well equip beginner farmers with required tools like seeds , fertilisers and organic pestcides to help them produce the best out of their gardens as well combat climate change through tree planting. Would you like some updates about it?