UBI saves boatloads of public money. That should motivate certain types of people. But it’s also kind. Which fills those same people with a straight up berserker rage.
i'm not pro UBI (i'd rather see the basic necessities of life decommodified) BUT it's always blown my mind that "just giving people money is good for the economy" isn't seen as the most obvious thing ever. you can't believe in marginal utility and not also realize this!!
Ahhh... Believing suffering is caused by moral failing and not wanting "them poors" to get aid they aren't also getting
"The aid for me is righteous and justified, the aid for them is a waste and evil!"
There is a sizable subset of the population who would rather burn down their own house than let someone else live in it or anywhere near it. It's never been about saving money, it's about maintaining the hierarchy.
Man I wish there was disability or unemployment checks in my country. You have no idea how not having to worry every month if we'll make enough to eat would free me to just work on all my creatives projects with a mind unburden by anxiety.
Can't even run UBI trials in Texas due to the craven a-holes in power making it illegal to just give people money (unless those "people" are multi-billion dollar corporations, then that's just fine)
also, many of those people who saving public money might motivate are also the same ones who don't think the public support UBI reduces the need for should exist in the first place. (unless they need it)
So does housing first for homeless populations, and access to preventive healthcare and care for illnesses before it rises to emergency room required, and so many other things like that. It's one reason I got out of disability policy work. Government (mostly) knows what to do but won't/can't.
It’s things like this that have me thinking if I ever got given a time machine to do the whole “set right what once went wrong” trope my target would proooobably be John Calvin.
