I’m fully aware friend. I’m not arguing the merits, multiple successful studies, or the desperate need.
My point is how do we convince the poor, deluded, beaten dog people to vote for leaders promising to enact this policy? Can’t you already hear the ignorant screams of “TROJAN HORSE COMMUNISM!!!” Yes, fully aware its not.
How do we sell this on a bumper sticker? A paragraph won’t help with most Americans.
Ah, sorry. I wasn’t replying against your comment but trying to add my ideas/explanation to it and the idea of UBI.
My only ideas on how to convince Americans aren’t great: that UBI will prevent homelessness both of them and probably prevent people sleeping on the streets. It’ll prevent hunger which means no real risk of not being able to feed your kids. Overall it’ll prevent some desperation so it’ll prevent a lot of the causes of crime.
Buuuut that won’t convince the majority of Americans who think it could never happen to them. Honestly we’ll probably get universal healthcare before UBI and I’m not holding out hope to see that in my lifetime. :(
Buuuut that won’t convince the majority of Americans who think it could never happen to them.
Even worse, I got conservatives in my family I know will say “but those people deserve to be there. They made bad decisions and should suffer for them.” Even though the “bad decision” premise is bullshit before we get into the cruelty of “deserving” suffering.
To those conservatives: Since the far and away best indicator of a person’s wealth is how wealthy their parents were, I guess that means that poor people deserve to be born from poor parents, huh?
Well when Republicans didn’t want to forgive even $10k worth of student loans cuz it’s “not fair to the people who paid it off” I’m not too optimistic we could convince them of UBI
it isn’t really fair… so you make public trade schools, public technical colleges, and undergrad at a public college or university free, too.
‘here. go (back) to school, paid for by the wealthy.’
