“Dave Ramsey is a dickhead that nobody should listen to, and he should fuck off all the way over there” says doctortofu, a random nobody on the Internet

Ramsey added: “If the welfare system worked, people would be sprinting out of these government funded ghettos into a wonderful life, and instead they’ve set up camp there generationally.”

Just more Protestant bullshit that ignores every study and trial.

He said unconditional cash grants deterred people from working and reaping the benefits of success.

Just like the wealthy people who keep working after they’ve made enough to live the rest of their life on the interest.

It’s worth underscoring that many proponents of UBI disagree that it eliminates the desire or need to work.

Or you know you could just reference actual studies instead of countering one dude’s unsupported opinion with an unsupported opinion from “many proponents”. You don’t need to pretend like it’s unknown and the best we can do it jot down opposing opinions from random people.

I’m sure Dave Ramsey has never read Marx, and I’m equally certain he is proud of that fact, so how can he claim to know what Marx did advocate for or would advocate for? I’m not a Marxist, nor an expert in Marxian theory, but I have read and studied some Marx and based on what (admittedly little) I know, I don’t see a connection between Marxism and universal basic income. In fact, I think Marx would have been opposed to UBI, maybe even viewing it as something that would strengthen the capitalist class and weaken the working class.