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cross-posted from: https://piefed.social/post/92667

  • A Seattle basic income pilot gave low-income residents $500 a month, nearly doubling employment rates. >
  • Some participants reported getting new housing, while others saw their employment incomes rise. >
  • Basic income pilots nationwide have seen noteworthy success, despite conservative opposition.
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[-] jol@discuss.tchncs.de 19 points 1 year ago

But that's what I don't understand. You can't have a slave class if they're all dead. Isn't a slave class more useful, more productive, if they're alive, reproducing, and consuming?

[-] ChicoSuave@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

No one is dying right away. While the masses are ground into mortality, they can get a few shifts out of em.

[-] chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The idea is for being alive to be contingent on doing whatever miserable low paid work is demanded.

[-] The_Che_Banana@beehaw.org 4 points 1 year ago

why do you think roe vs wade was overturned?

[-] jol@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 1 year ago

Exactly, that's the kind of lawful evil I expect.

[-] The_Che_Banana@beehaw.org 0 points 1 year ago

Everything the nazis did was "legal"

[-] jorp@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

You just need a high enough turnover whether through forced birth legislation, making it difficult or impossible to get birth control or sex education, or increasing immigration

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