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The government’s too broke for that this time, though. Especially true after the bubble starts to pop and everyone’s credit gets downgraded again.

UBI has been demonstrated to work in test environments that were not able to isolate all externalities. It might work at scale, but that isn’t testable currently; you’d have to have a massive social experiment.

There’s also the problem that UBI would be putting everyone’s entire means for subsistence up to the whims of the government, which I would think would horrify more people. I dont trust my government to fill the potholes, let alone make sure I’m surviving and thriving.

I didn’t go to business school, so take this with a grain of salt: doesn’t business solvency require you to charge more for your product than it cost you to produce it and bring it to market?

He’ll just release Meta Monacles then.

At least Skynet would blow up these dorks.

Companies based outside the law’s jurisdiction can also claim that, or whatever they want.

If you take it a step further, such a society would also have very little content on OnlyFans in the first place, since many of those creators surely do so for lack of other options to make a living, which is caused by many of the same societal ills.

That said, marketing sex appeal is not, in itself, one of those ills. For example, a prostitute is not necessarily exploitative, but a pimp almost certainly is, especially in a black market.

Well said. They are a leading cause of the circumstances that lead to their plight. It is a vicious cycle that does not correct on its own, requiring a major external event to shake up the current status quo. I wonder what that event will be this time.

Most functioning societies have laws to protect the most vulnerable among them, and most consider being an uneducated, credulous rube to be a vulnerability. Unfortunately, many modern societies are having trouble functioning these days, leading to the predatory financial hellscape we find ourselves in.

Markets do have rules, though; rules are essentially all they are. If you play by a different set of rules than me, depending on what they are, it could result in one of us always winning every interaction because of the way the rules fail to line up.

In those scenarios, we have to be OK with that, agree to the same rules, or decide independently or together to play separately. Instead, we’re choosing option #1 and bitching incessantly about the unfairness. We can try the other options, but elites, at least until very recently, have been content to sell the future for more in the present. Now that it is “the future”, its biting them too and they suddenly see the issue.

People not paying attention in history class is why it keeps also being future class.