Support me on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ComradeHakimTwitter: @YaBoiHakimI'm late to the discussion but, UBI is still popular amongst the wider left. H...
Right now Basic Income is $0. The proposal is to make it > $0. Happy to discuss the particular political strategy of a UBI starting point. But suggesting "you can't call it basic income because that language is a compromise" is just kinda blind to the status quo.
I'm reminded of the fights over minimum wage, where leftists pretend the minutea of the debate even matters in a national legislature that refuses to do anything good ever for any reason. Give me a national organization with some traction on the issue and then talk to me about what specific bullet points they should include in their manifesto.
Calling it basic income is just the same classic move of compromising to the bare minimum before the negotiation even begins.
Right now Basic Income is $0. The proposal is to make it > $0. Happy to discuss the particular political strategy of a UBI starting point. But suggesting "you can't call it basic income because that language is a compromise" is just kinda blind to the status quo.
I'm reminded of the fights over minimum wage, where leftists pretend the minutea of the debate even matters in a national legislature that refuses to do anything good ever for any reason. Give me a national organization with some traction on the issue and then talk to me about what specific bullet points they should include in their manifesto.