Universal Basic Income demand: ain't working for workers' liberation
Submitted by AngryWorkersWorld on Apr 15 2017 08:52
Parts of the radical left see the Universal Basic Income (UBI) demand as a potential vehicle to a) ‘make people think’ about productive potentials and wealth distribution in capitalism; and b) unify a (fragmented and atomised) working class through a common demand. We think that the demand ain’t helpful for the following reasons.
What is wrong with free money?
Critisticuffs and Gruppen discuss Universal Basic Income (also known as Citizens income, Citizens Wage etc) and critique the idea from an anti-authoritarian left position as fundamentally inadequate and mistaken.
Universal Basic Income: freedom for workers?
Submitted by AnarchoDoom on Dec 13 2016 00:26
A post on why workers should oppose automation unless we can carry it out in our own interests and why a Universal Basic Income is not going to be the answer to the resulting immiseration
Artificial intelligence, tech workers, and universal income: An interview
Submitted by Chilli Sauce on Oct 13 2015 03:19
What are the possibilities for artificial intelligence to free us from the drudgery of work? How about the class outlook of those developing those technologies? Read and find out.
