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0 pointsalabastervlog1y ago0 comments

> 2. UBI is basically keeping humans as pets.

UBI is similar to confining an animal? Deciding what and when it eats, when it bathes, where it goes? Training it, whether it likes it or not? Deciding whether it gets medical care? Whether it gets to have companions of its own kind?

I thought it was giving people money.

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Loughla1y ago

I mean, depending on the amount, yes it could be deciding all of the things you said. You would be limited in your choices depending on how much the ubi actually is.

alabastervlogOP1y ago

Right now I get zero ubi so I guess I am even more limited on all of those, and am even more a pet.

c0nducktr1y ago

Right now you can live without it.

alabastervlogOP1y ago

As a pet. More of a pet than someone on UBI. I'm someone already experiencing the bad thing we worry might happen to someone on UBI—withdrawal of it.

Not the worst, unclear to me why this was a concern in the first place. Be cool to have UBI though.

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Loughla1y ago

I mean, depending on the amount, yes it could be deciding all of the things you said. You would be limited in your choices depending on how much the ubi actually is.

alabastervlogOP1y ago

Right now I get zero ubi so I guess I am even more limited on all of those, and am even more a pet.

c0nducktr1y ago

Right now you can live without it.

alabastervlogOP1y ago

As a pet. More of a pet than someone on UBI. I'm someone already experiencing the bad thing we worry might happen to someone on UBI—withdrawal of it.

Not the worst, unclear to me why this was a concern in the first place. Be cool to have UBI though.

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