Trying to Exist on Purpose.

Thirty-something He/Him.

[arthur-bn]

Guilty Spark and an Aggressor Sentinel from Halo:CE. * Models available to download for free on my Ko-Fi page this Friday *

[jennelikejennay]

I love Universal Basic Income but I need people to promote it in addition to other solutions and not as a substitute for them.

"Corporation stole your life's work? Well if there were UBI you wouldn't mind!"

"Robot stole your job? With UBI you wouldn't need your job!"

"Not enough help for disabled people? If we all had UBI that would replace disability payments!"

"Corporations conglomerating into a few huge unregulatable cartels which hike up the prices of everything forever? Just tax them and do UBI!"

Like, yes UBI would certainly help those problems. I'm not at all saying it wouldn't.

But if we do not actually fix society in a few key ways, we're going to end up right back where we are now.

For instance, if we had UBI nationally (instead of just in test areas), these big colluding megacorporations would simply raise the prices of everything to recapture the money. The only limit in the money they extract from us right now is how much we have. If we had more, they'd take more, and monopoly gives them the ability to do that efficiently.

UBI isn't going to hire a special ed teacher in my kid's school or make your apartment ADA compliant.

UBI shouldn't be a consolation prize for destroying a job someone loved. Humans like to work, and we like to benefit from our own work. I do not want to have my industry demolished to be done worse by a word salad machine, and be compensated by a check.

And of course, with corporations so huge they can buy politicians, they will soon vote the taxes down and UBI back out.

We need, for starters:

robust anti trust

money out of politics

regulations that protect ordinary people without a lawyer

I could go on and on but I think I've made my point. UBI and other laws and systems that promote justice, not just one or the other.

[oneheadtoanother]

The reason technocrats are often weirdly okay with promoting UBI is it has the potential to be the entitlement equivalent of a flat tax, which is less corrective of inequality than progressive taxation. They're looking at UBI as a way to control per capita spending on us. Some of those savings would come from cutting out the layers of bureaucracy that currently means-test and gatekeep access to benefits like disability and food stamps, but a simplistic UBI system could leave the most expensive care cases in the cold to make up the difference on their own. UBI needs to be additional to other safety nets (or be sophisticated enough to adjust individual income payments to cover disparate living costs e.g. medical expenses, regional variations in cost of living, etc.) in order to be a real concession to the working class.

[girldraki]

[swamplevel]

i think it's ok to play fighting games to cum. there are worse reasons to do something

[slygirlboy]

and yet, when i play magic the gathering to cum, suddenly its ok to make fun of me

[swamplevel]

it's never okay to play magic the gathering for any reason

[fladurblegon]

Inside of me there are two Squirtles

[time-left-to-kill]

et tu brute?

[lesbianmarrow]

free use is kind of a funny kink bc it relies on the idea that everybody wants to touch you and have sex with you but what if they don't. what if you tell everybody at the party you're free use but they all ignore you and mind their own business

[tunnaa-unnaa]

taking notes

[the-worms-in-your-bones]

Anxiety is stupid because your brain will go ‘what if they kill me with hammers for talking to them’ and it’s people you talk to regularly who have never given any indication that they’d kill you with hammers

[heartpdf]

[kosmogrl]

[meanbuddhist]

i found something inside me that i’m scared of and now i’m going to domesticate it

[whyenn-reader]

''what if you regret it'' then you will expirience regret - a normal and unavoidable part of the human expirience.

[meanbuddhist]

i want freedom i want freedom i want freedom *is granted freedom* noooooo my attachments

[guerrillatech]

[jakerycakery]

The Moment of Clarity

[centrally-unplanned]

Must be pretty insulting to know that your boss and all of his inner circle do exactly the same thing you did, and even brag about it to the media, but you get suspended for it because You Are Not Important Enough. Real "high school lunch table bullying" moment - most adults don't get told right to their faces that they just aren't one of the cool kids.

[dinoserious]

a nicely framed silverfish for @squiddity3! stylistically based on an older ghost mantis piece of mine