lemm.ee

-16 points

9 months ago

Eh. Watching what was basically a UBI trial run during Covid in Canada and how it, among other things, has really put financial strain on the government and citiizens, has definitely made me opposed. This shit bankrupts nations.

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Powerpoint@lemmy.ca

4 points

9 months ago

That was nothing of the sort

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-6 points

9 months ago

it was a guaranteed amount of income monthly for those chose not to work. “But that wasn’t real UBI” fucking whatever.

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Barometer3689@feddit.nl

3 points

9 months ago

Ain’t that just welfare? I thought UBI means that you will get the money, even if you work.

TBH my perspective might be skewed cause I am qualified for disability income, but I choose to work anyway. So I naturally tend to assume that others would do the same.

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2 points

9 months ago

No, the Canadian CERB payout was basically structured and set up just like a UBI. You could get it even if you were capable of working, I could have had it too, simply by stating I was uncomfortable keeping working under the circumstances (May have been less true for me personally, I was “essential service”). People on welfare just stayed on welfare.

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philomory@lemm.ee

1 point

9 months ago

But that’s exactly what they just said isn’t UBI, with UBI you’d get to keep the money while working if you wanted to. “Universal” means everyone gets it, not just people who “claim to be uncomfortable working”.

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2 points

9 months ago

Every proposal for UBI test projects I have seen, sets UBI as a failsafe cutoff, a guaranteed income, not a provided income. This interpretation of how it would work is ridiculously worse for the economy than the idea I thought I was arguing against.

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