The Billionaire-Fueled Lobbying Group Behind the State Bills to Ban Basic Income Experiments in the U.S.
The Billionaire-Fueled Lobbying Group Behind the State Bills to Ban Basic Income Experiments in the U.S.
The Foundation for Government Accountability - a Florida-based lobbying group backed by the richest 1% - is working to get basic income experiments banned by state legislators across the U.S. As a well-known quote often wrongly attributed to Mahatma Ghandi says, “First they ignore you, then they ...
The richest one percent spending their money to keep everyone else poor. I'm shocked, shocked i tell you. Well, not that shocked, maybe just hungry? Eat the rich.
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#YeetTheRich
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One thing I can say, if I had UBI, I'd try to start my own business.
Yeah that might cut into the billionaires profits, so no UBI for you. Here's a UTI instead.
That's not a bad deal. Without healthcare or a steady income that's something that'll last a while.
I think the main reason is that if you had an UBI, you'd be way more eager to join a union, strike, or quit a shitty job. They know their fortune is built on labour exploitation, even the supposed 'tech' companies.
One thing I can say, if I had UBI, 100% of it would go to my landleech to line his pockets
doing what and why can't you do it without UBI?
I mean presumably because they can't afford the risk of failure?
Why is no one also mad at the lobbying group? They come up with ideas to thwart any improvement for us all and don't see any ethical issues with what they are doing. Being paid to be genuinely evil is something that shouldn't exist as a job.
Because there's a lot of naive people who think that we can fight lobbying of big corporations by bunch of people and small business cooperation with each other.
Lol.
Imagine bunch of people trying to cooperate in lobbying vs 1 paid lawyer with unlimited budget
This really speaks to the issue of the ultra-wealthy being more interested in power over others than satiating their own needs or desires. Pathetic on their part, like a mental illness for power, manifest through the accumulation of money.
It's not really much of a surprise, human beings have been lying for power and influence over a dominion for thousands of years. The modern iteration isn't much different, aside from the modern global reach.
If we know who the billionaires are, why don't we, like, just get rid of them? This is the easiest trolley problem.
The switch in this trolley problem is inside a room and the door locks permanently if you use the switch.
I could tape a stick to an RC car and use that to flip it.
There's easily enough walls for every single one of them
Because that's terrorism or something when you start talking about the brass tacks.
Whenever anyone tells me that capitalism leads to efficient solutions or some such BS, I point them to things like this.
Come on. You realise things aren't all bad or all good right?
Yes it's true that capitalism hasn't worked out, but it's not true that capitalism has no beneficial qualities whatsoever.
Capitalism is a domination based economic strategy that's killing most of the life on this planet.
There's also partnership based economic strategies that probably would be more in harmony with the earth as well as other human beings, like cooperatives, non-profits, and of course socialism etc.
So, I guess as far as domination based strategies go, Capitalism is very efficient. And offers a veil of autonomy that feudalism and slavery didn't. But it's only a veil. The rich get richer, the poor relatively poorer. And while the planet burns, most human beings are still slaves to their paychecks while the oligarchs call the shots.
I don't see any benefit in this, but you do?
What? Capitalism has no intentional benefits that aren't personal.
Every single feature benefits specific people instead of... Everybody.
Are you high?
Even Henry Fucking Ford knew to let his employees have disposable income. Who are these dumbfucks?
The conspiracy theory that there's a small group of evil, rich people controlling the world keeps getting validated.
it's really astounding how many people choose to believe that poor people and minorities are the REAL problem, despite the fact that rich people are consistently and quite obviously being cartoonishly evil
There HAS to be a good chunk of the population that are poor as fuck, that way rich folks can keep getting those who work for them by the balls "you fuck around and I'll hire that person who's dying to take your job with a lot less pay than you" . Why do you think they hate unions and UBI and other things that could make people live a bit comfortable?
Here is a good video about it
Wonder why they're so afraid of UBI
Because if we get most of our needs met by UBI, we'd have less reason to work their horrible low paying jobs and less likely to stay a wage slave.
Yup. And they know we know that. It is now officially a fight between us and them, quite literally.
Downvote me if you want but using ai images in an article bashing the rich is extremely hypocritical. AI is a content theft machine that takes from artist so websites like this can generate images without paying actual artist.
