• BarrelAgedBoredom@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    Hard agree on all points. It’s a bit of a bummer that Andrew yang of all people was the one to start the national conversation about UBI because his whole deal just pollutes the discussion from the jump

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      1 year ago

      It did at least introduce the concept to a lot of people, especially to those who have otherwise never have heard of it.

      Kind of like what Bernard Sandman did. He introduced people to a bastardized version of socialism but that still got people talking.