Without a "Universal Basic Income," a capitalist economy guarantees that a small percentage of the population will live and die in the streets. They will not find work and they will not survive.
This guaranteed failure rate of humiliation and despair, is what capitalist economies use to motivate the rest of us to continue to work (so we can avoid a similar fate).
How moral, just, or fair, is ANY social system that plans on the fact that a small percentage of the population has to have a miserable, short life of despair, just to guarantee that the rest of us work and the very rich can continue to enjoy a pleasant lifestyle.
Can you imagine polite conversation with comfortable people humorously chatting about trivial matters while a person lays dying, and gasping for air, on the floor beside the table? Someone is dying and the party just continues as usual. Nobody even notices. That is what is happening in America. That is what is happening in Los Angeles.
While the wealthy elite celebrate their success in their Hollywood Hills mansions, their compatriots are sleeping in the rain and dying on the sidewalks of Los Angeles.
Presently, there are 60,000 people living on the streets of Los Angeles. Nobody cares about these people. Nobody helps them. They are already dead and nobody cares. This IS America. This IS the USA. The land of the invisible dead.
Without a Universal Basic Income, All Americans become cold hearted, selfish, criminals.
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William Schaeffer
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