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Society is Limited by Wage Slavery (europe.pub)

submitted 1 month ago by Five@slrpnk.net to c/anarchism@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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[–] quips@slrpnk.net 24 points 1 month ago (4 children)

This is why a ubi is so essential when society evolves to a post scarcity state.

[–] ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net 15 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

I'd recommend reading The Dispossessed by Ursula LeGuin if you're interested in an in-depth depiction of how an egalitarian stateless society could function without money.

[–] quips@slrpnk.net 5 points 1 month ago

Thank you for the rec I’ll check it out!

[–] CrabAndBroom@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Her short story "The Day Before The Revolution" is a good add-on to this too, and the preface is interesting IMO.

My novel The Dispossessed is about a small worldful of people who call themselves Odonians. The name is taken from the founder of their society, Odo, who lived several generations before the time of the novel, and who therefore doesn't get into the action-- except implicitly, in that all the action started with her.

Odonianism is anarchism. Not the bomb-in-the-pocket stuff, which is terrorism, whatever name it tries to dignify itself with; not the social-Darwinist economic "libertarianism" of the far right; but anarchism. as prefigured in early Taoist thought, and expounded by Shelley and Kropotkin, Goldman and Goodman. Anarchism's principal target is the authoritarian State (capitalist or socialist); its principal moral-practical theme is cooperation (solidarity, mutual aid). It is the most idealistic, and to me the most interesting, of all political theories.

[–] whoisearth@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yup but that would require the true ruling class to see their blood spilled to get it. Progressive people have tried and continue to try to push UBI throughout the world. In Canada alone we have had recent experiences both on the Federal and Provincial level. They intentionally get hamstrung or directly shut down to poison any potential results.

The longer we go without UBI the worse it's going to get. Christ look at youth unemployment globally let alone the general struggles youth are dealing with that didn't exist even 20 years ago. We need UBI yesterday but we are still struggling to get people to even entertain the concept of it.

[–] WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

UBI? You mean Unstoppable Bot Invasion?

[–] quips@slrpnk.net 1 points 1 month ago

🤣😆🤣🤣😆😂😂

[–] Sludgeyy@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

We should push for a UBMI

Universal Bare Minimum Income

"Basic" is debatable

Hard to argue everyone needs the bare minimum

Maybe they aren't going to be able to buy their art supplies at first. But it's definitely a start.

Wonderful thing about art is that multiple people can share the same crayon box