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Employees should not depend on the government for their ability to walk away from a job. They should depend on real assets that help them live more self suffici
by arunkd13 6y ago
Employees should not depend on the government for their ability to walk away from a job. They should depend on real assets that help them live more self sufficiently outside of their employment. This should include family, friend and other forms of community ties.
- manigandham 6y agoThe power divide includes having this kind of support and real assets. You have to start somewhere.
- machiaweliczny 6y agoWhy not?
- 5ersi 6y agoThey would not really depend on "the government" as UBI would be codified in law and universally available, so government could not take UBI away from an individual or a group. Also, we already depend on "the government" to make available (or protect) some pretty important stuff we depend on: rule of law, public safety, healthcare (in most developed countries), etc..
- deelly 6y agoYes, this idea is so simple but sometime is so hard to grasp. Also, people should not kill each other.
- ivalm 6y agoBut they factually don’t have these real assets and can’t gain them. This is why poverty can trap people.
- michaelmrose 6y agoHow is this working out in America today? Is there any reason it will ever work for half the nation?
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- bmitc 6y ago> They should depend on real assets that help them live more self sufficiently outside of their employment. That is simply an impossibility for the majority of people.