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"How will I pay my bills"
(Democratic) Socialism, UBI, and fair wages.
it's insane how deep propaganda has drilled into the heads of people where you have to specify the socialism is democratic
To be fair, there are a lot of tankies advocating for the non-democratic type.
They don't think they are. They defend the democratic veneer of Soviet-style systems and the funny thing is they're more right about that than it is to call your Stalin types absolute dictators.
There are many kinds of socialism, democratic socialism being one of them
New to lemmy?
I mean, you can go one further and establish public utilities that ration resources per capita instead of charging a vig on top of the production cost.
Why do I need UBI and wages if I can just claim a vacant apartment and be guaranteed power/telecom, of which their are millions nationally?
We could divert the tens of billions (converted to energy/man hours) we're throwing away on AI subsidies and everyone can live a comfortable middle class life free of charge.
Yes but yokels in the flyover states will say no, so you're not allowed to do this.
You give the yokels far too little credit. Quite a few of them are convinced it is the liberals who want to means test away their quality of life and expose them to the predation of foreign markets.
And they're often right. DLC liberals were perfectly fine with Midwestern deindustrialized, education privatization, military expansion, and corrosive financialization. The problem is that they're boxed in, with nowhere to go. Conservatives ensconced them in a media monopoly, screaming a partial truth - that liberal business interests have fully compromised their wing of government. That's made selling "we're all you've got" an incredibly powerful message on the right. Even as the Congressional paymasters tip both parties generously.
AI subsidies?
But think of the market!