I've read several articles that talk about UBI in the context of job displacement by automation.
Quite frankly don't know what to think about it. I'm old enough that I'm not going to have to deal with the prospect like younger folks will have to.
The UBI itself may not actually be socialism, since EVERYONE gets $1,000 a month. But there is validity to the argument that funding such an endeavor with a VAT reeks of socialism. The argument against is that if the VAT is levied on the basis of jobs replaced by robots/automation it is in essence defraying the cost to society of those lost jobs.
Another solution might be to get involved in a two front war with China and Russia as a method of population control.
Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the President... - Theodore Roosevelt, Lincoln and Free Speech, Metropolitan Magazine, Volume 47, Number 6, May 1918.
Every Communist must grasp the truth. Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun. Our principle is that the Party commands the gun, and the gun must never be allowed to command the Party Mao Zedong, 6 November, 1938 - speech to the Communist Patry of China's sixth Central Committee
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