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0 pointsglobular-toast1y ago0 comments

That's obvious. The point is inequality is reduced.

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So a progressive tax system like what we have? (ignoring capital gains taxes)

UBI represented as a progressive tax system would be so wildly different from our current brackets it would be qualitatively different. Some brackets would be negative.

drekipus1y ago

"negative brackets" is a truly great idea and would help many affected by poverty.

but that's not what adherence to UBI is about. UBI is about chasing an impossible utopia and burning ourselves in the process so that we have greater net inequality.

Stick to the plan. Call out anyone who tries to make UBI work by watering it down from our idealized end-goal as nay-sayers. Clutch to random hypothesis'.

It's the only way we can bludgeon them through democratic or revolutionary means.

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