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by muuh-gnu 3881 days ago
Whatever I'm advocating, youre advocating flat out mugging, and to conceal that, youre giving it other names.

Muging, aka forcible redistribution of other peoples wealth is called "communism", so stop pretending youre advocating something completely different by rebranding it over and over and over again.

UBI _doesnt work_ without forcibly taking from one group of people and giving it to another group. How forcible redistribution ends up you saw in Soviet Russia. Are you earning so little that you'd rather see our economy crumble like Soviet Russia, than to have hard working people keeping their wages to themselves without being mugged by envious low-earners?

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I'm sure we can agree to disagree on what are the most viable and desirable ways to distribute wealth, but any form of taxation is backed by force, and any spending of that tax leads to it being given to someone else. If you don't pay taxes, you go to jail. When government hires someone to do a job, they give some of that money to someone else.
> most viable and desirable ways to distribute wealth

None.

> If you don't pay taxes, you go to jail.

"If you dont pay protection money, we demolish your restaurant."

So essentially youre advocating for a society thats indistinguishable from a Yakuza-run shanty town.

Congrats, which basically ends our small discourse.

I don't agree with you, but I'm sorry you're getting downvoted for contributing constructively to the conversation.