When talking to people who dislike UBI about UBI, they'll often say both that 'people need a purpose in life' and that 'nobody will work if they get free money'. - eviltoast

Those seem incompatible to me.

(UBI means Universal Basic Income, giving everyone a basic income, for free)

      • snooggums@kbin.social
        4·
        10 months ago

        I’m still not sure if he was actually in favor or just pandering, but at least he put it on the stage.

      • aStonedSanta@lemm.ee
        42·
        10 months ago

        Yeah. I supported Yang to help popularize the idea but he’s just a wolf in sheep’s skin trying to get rich.

        • flames5123@lemmy.world
          5·
          10 months ago

          How so? I canvased for Yang in 2019, but after he dropped, I kinda just stopped thinking about him. I know he started the Forward Party, and he’s had some bad takes on homelessness, but how is he a wolf in sheep’s clothing? He apparently has a net worth of at least a couple million living in New York, but he’s in his 40’s, so that‘s not really that far off from normal businessmen.

      • MonkCanatella@sh.itjust.works
        32·
        10 months ago

        I knew Yang was a fraud from the start. It was his “you have a freedom to choose between UBI and safety social nets” that made it clear to me. Took a long fucking time for other left leaning folks to catch on. He was getting way too much attention. That’s actually why I liked Michael Brooks so much. He was one of the few at the time that saw through it