your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦1d ago

RE: https://mastodon.social/@nixCraft/116380044468638699

Microsoft Office is one of the largest #welfare programs in the world. it diverts REAL billions of dollars from the public coffers of governments, into the pockets of Bill Gates and his #EpsteinClass cronies.

Brasil pays for basic universal health care and UBI for kids because it said NO to Microsoft in 2005 & moved to #linux & #LibreOffice.

thanks to Trump, #Microsoft finally lost the 2nd largest economy in the European Union and the 7th largest in the world.

merci a la France.

Show threadGustavo1d ago
@blogdiva Hey, what do you call UBI for kids? Bolsa Família or Pé de Meia? I wouldn't call those UBI, but welfare programs. UBI looks similar, but IMHO those are fundamentally different.
Show threadyour auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦

@qgustavor i thought they extended the UBI they set up for orphans of femicidio to kids under a certain age.

edit: i forgot the Pé de Media. for real though, y’all giving more money to people directly, especially the youth, than here in USA. never in a million years i thought i’d see the day, yet here we are.

FWIW: i have an MPhil in Latin American Studies and Brasil was one of my areas of interest because of Celso Furtado & Henrique-Cardozo (they were popular in the 80s & 90s)

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Show threadGustavo23h ago

@blogdiva I mean, those are really good programs, I just don't think they are UBI because... well, UBI should be Universal, it's in the name, and those programs are no close to universal.

AFAIK UBI does not have one of the issues many people criticize about Bolsa Família: many people claim many people on this program actually defrauded it and don't actually need it, so UBI, having lower requirements, would be easier to manage and to control fraud.

I love those programs! Many right-wingers (and people influenced by them) go against those. I lost count of how many times I heard people saying that those programs make people lazy. No way! I still love them! I went to public college, I got my home with the help of Minha Casa Minha Vida.