>>226966There is this lie among (economically) right-wingers that UBI, welfare or anything given for free is bad supposedly because it demotivates you. They say if you get free stuff or money just like that then people won't want to work. But being realistic, if UBI was a thing, it obviously wouldn't be on the level of minimum wage but somehow still enough to get by in life. Now, the big majority of people are greedy assholes, would they be satisfied with that only? Obviously no. So of course the majority would still go to work to earn more money that they can spend on stupid shit or to impress succubi with their wealth. And even people who are ascetic in their worldview would most likely continue working too because fact is most people need work, they need to feel productive, they need to feel they belong somewhere, they need to follow instructions…Because most people would be bored otherwise.
So in the end, everything would be the same but people like us wouldn't have to worry about going homeless…But (economically) right-wingers think that is a big no-no, we can't have lazy men sitting on their asses and just watching anime all day! Where would this lead us?! (Ofc, it's all about the rich and middle class people fearing that they need to pay slightly higher taxes to keep low class people like us fed. They would rather spend their money on buying another car they don't need or purchasing a new house they don't need…)
And I say this as someone who isn't even a big fan of UBI. UBI would be improvement over nothing, don't get me wrong but I don't think the government should give money to EVERYONE. I mean, why give money to rich people too? I oppose universality in that sense, there should be some limit on who gets the basic income. Rich people don't need that extra lunch money.