• Signtist@lemm.ee
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    7 months ago

    Sweet! I sure hope the inflation wouldn’t completely invalidate the extra income, but I still have very little faith in American capitalism allowing for there to be money not immediately being funneled into the bank accounts of the 1%.

    • loopedcandle@lemmynsfw.com
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      7 months ago

      IIRC, that was one of the ways Nixon sold it. If the plebes have more money, they spend it on more consumerism bullshit . . .which is money that ends up in the hands of the 1%.

      Again, this is a 20 year old college course, so my memory could be way off (and aspirational b.c. I personally like UBI).