[FRIAM] The case for universal basic income UBI

[jon zingale]

"""
The very little Marxism I know tells me that it is the "triumph" of
capitalism
to reduce all relationships to money. 
"""

To reduce all relationships to money is an operation that seeks to objectify
things via construal as scalar valuations. That is, two things are
considered the
same if they trade the same. The pedantic here may point out the possibility
of
vector valuations, but the idea for me would be no different. This is one
reason
I feel that it is fair to criticize EricC when he suggests that two theories
ought to be considered the same if they measure the same.

"""
Reduction is a triumph if it captures what you're looking for.
"""

When reductions capture what one is looking for then the resulting
categories
make for powerful rhetoric. IMO, it is exactly that reductions to crisp
objects
capture what *some* want, while obfuscating the desired objects of others,
that
makes the whole reduction-objectification game so insidious in practice (a
kind
of conceptual imperialism?). Sometimes objects can be presented with such
clarity
and precision that it becomes difficult to imagine any others, to dislodge
unproductive beliefs or practices, or to remember that the objects are
fantastic
shorthands.

"""
But, ultimately, it's a capitalist suggestion, proposed by *conservatives*
who
want to prolong the status quo.
"""

And in theory, services could be provided (at reasonable prices) to these
*conservatives*, services that ultimately (once capitalism enters its death
throes
and not even the most unscrupulous can frack it for value) provide
infrastructure
for the next and hopefully more equitable world to come.




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