• Soup@lemmy.world
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    16 hours ago

    Sure, but that doesn’t excuse anything. And if a solution looks to good to be true then you gotta back it up with studies and trials and evidence not just feelings and decades of complete failure. UBI is an elegant and simple solution and tests for it have gone well. Getting rid of regulations and taxes and expecting trickle down economics and the free market to make everything wonderful is the realm of the stupid and insane.

    So even if it is “most people” there’re still two groups within it.

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      10 hours ago

      I’m not disagreeing! A long time ago there was a very popular tv commercial with a big, red “easy” button. It was popular because most of us wish for it, while understanding it’s the work behind the scene, often for years, decades, that makes the magic. Imagine if all we leftist regular people had the will and fortitude to get on board with the ones doing the heavy lifting what we can accomplish! It doesn’t mean we’ll even live to see results, just that we can envision a better future for everyone, if we just keep working for it…