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We need #UBI to be enacted & implemented.
@PhoenixSerenity
Yes... so long as it's not used as an inadequate replacement for existing programs and benefits.
@freediverx If we had UBI - some of those other welfare programs wouldn't be needed. Those programs are inadequate bandaids, while UBI provides more stability so people can actually lift themselves up because they're not over-stressed about paying basic bills & being able to feed themselves/family.
Under existing disability benefits - disabled people & their partners are punished by government if they cohabitate - benefits cut off or severely reduced. Many disabled people suffer due to that & disability advocates like me have been trying to get that cruel ableist policy removed for over 20 years.
@PhoenixSerenity
Potentially, yes. But it all depends on the implementation details. There is no magic bullet solution that can't be rendered useless by bureaucratic meddling.
@freediverx UBI essentially empowers citizens & that's the biggest reason governments have stayed far from it. Our governments don't want the citizens to become less financially stressed & more empowered. It goes against their capitalist corrupt power plans.
@PhoenixSerenity
I’m in favor of UBI in concept. I am suspicious of some of the political leaders who've promoted it (see: Andrew Yang).
@freediverx Anarchists who have built/support multiple mutual aid communities tend to have a better idea of how UBI can be implemented to benefit citizens as a whole, more than any politician. I'm pretty anti-government for many reasons but mostly because it's a corrupt capitalist system.
@PhoenixSerenity
True, a difficult lesson that took me too long to learn. See the Iron Law of Institutions.
@freediverx I became an anarchist in the 90s when I first saw how evil, corrupt & greedy our governments are. In late 90s, I stopped believing any colonial courts here would help to change things for the better. That's when I first witnessed severe injustices in BC Supreme Court, where violent loggers who almost killed an environmentalist comrade & put her into a coma with multiple broken ribs/other brutal injuries, got zero jail time.