• CascadianGiraffe@lemmy.world
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    12 hours ago

    Nationalize Corporations and use the profits to fund UBI

    As a retail manager for many different stores in the past and as someone who once had serious drug addiction and spent time in jail and homeless. I understand both sides of the issue.

    In my opinion Universal Basic Income is the only solution that is actually viable. And you will still need to lock things up, just not to the extent we do right now.

    Also, most of the loss prevention is a requirement of the insurance companies, not individual companies or stores.

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      11 hours ago

      UBI is one of the least effect means of wealth distribution and it fails to address the largest issue and that is capitalism at largr, the rich still get there disproportionate power, they still own the means of production, all we are doing now is letting them toss a concession, and likely after a few years they will lower pay and bennifets and or increase cost to regain the lost money.

      Now if I where asked to vote on it I would say yes, but lets please address the serious lacking of this plan, instead of treating it like a silver bullet

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        8 hours ago

        Oh I don’t disagree with you. As I said, I think it’s the only viable solution because capitalism at large won’t be solved. You need to fix education to fix the human greed problem, and even then that’s going to be a very long time in the making. Like generations upon generations.

        And yeah, UBI isn’t a solution for wealth gaps. But it will help the suffering of the poorest, which is a good start. And it might make climbing the social/economic ladder a little easier if you started at the bottom.

        There is no silver bullet solution and waiting for one doesn’t do anything to help. So we gotta start somewhere. Let’s start at the bottom and work our way towards better overall solutions.