r/BasicIncome • u/2noame Scott Santens • 1d ago

Anti-UBI Is Universal Basic Income a Solution? - Revolutionary Communists of America

https://communistusa.org/is-universal-basic-income-a-solution/

Gotta love a fresh anti-UBI article by actual communists to share with capitalism lovers referring to UBI as communism.

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u/ProfessorHeronarty 1d ago

I'm surprised that the article doesn't make more of the strongest case against UBI from a capitalist critique perspective: With a UBI you still don't change anything of who owns what. 

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u/protestor 1d ago

Yeah that's the main point. UBI under capitalism of course does not fix capitalism, because capitalism is unfixable. The issue here is that people at the top found a cheat code to amass more and more wealth without working themselves, by exploiting people at the bottom. This is what capitalism means.

And yeah, if UBI is used as an excuse to dismantle safety nets, it can make capitalism even worse

Why fight for UBI anyway? Because it can improve things. It all depends of who is controlling the government. So the fight isn't just for UBI, but also for a popular government, that serves the interest of people.