This onion cuts deep for those who insist that a jobs guarantee must accompany basic income. It exposes the contradiction of offering security while still demanding justification for one’s right to it.
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UBI is an unconditional right—one that fulfills Locke’s promise of securing life, liberty, and property by ensuring everyone has the means to participate freely in society.
To resist the sirens' call of tribalism, universal must be unconditional. We can't trust ourselves to choose, and we are unable to create systems that choose without bias.
Universal human rights start with universal suffrage, universal basic income, and the elimination of the death penalty.
It isn't. A jobs guarantee is that if you're out of work and you need a job, you'd go to a division of the federal government and they'd locate you a job suiting your requirements and help train you to do it.
What the OP misinterpreted is a WORK REQUIREMENT, i.e., you must work to receive benefits.
We should have both, though. A job guarantee is for those who are able and willing to work, it'd be a federal jobs placement program that would be guaranteed to find them a job with what they're asking for.
That is not mutually exclusive with a UBI. That, we need anyway.
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Universal human rights start with universal suffrage, universal basic income, and the elimination of the death penalty.
What the OP misinterpreted is a WORK REQUIREMENT, i.e., you must work to receive benefits.
Thank you for the clarification!
Jobs guarantee is just political as we all know it’s required.
Call it want you want it’s a backhanded way to deny ones rights.
That is not mutually exclusive with a UBI. That, we need anyway.
You are confusing it with a WORK REQUIREMENT, which is "You must be working according to these arbitrary standards to receive this assistance."
Unconditional basic income or bust.