The idea that people would be deincentivised to work because of UBI is bunk. Simply ask anybody if they would retire for $1,000 a month. Ask yourself, ask everyone! Guess how many you would find?

The real problem isn't that workers will be wholesale disincentivized from working, its that many of those huge corporations rely on a discontented captive workforce that would suddenly find itself with new opportunities, and that scares them.

The systems of capitalism are quite effective here. People aspire for more both for the sense of achievement and standard of living. UBI would remove the desperation that locks people into situations where they don't have the time or energy to invest in themselves to pursue it.

Isn't Mortgage Interest Deduction a program for the wealthy who don't need it?!

You're one of the most refreshing sources of political commentary right now

How do we prevent the market from absorbing a UBI? I worry housing and car payments will make it obsolete within a few years. The only way it will truly work is combined with a massive decommodification of food, housing and transportation.

more fear more profit in capitalism

...incentivized to fire union organizers and block unionization because there are no legal consequences to doing so. Neoliberalism incentivizes shitty behavior by billionaires and trillion-dollar damage to the economy.