UBI critics: If we give people money without conditions, people will stop working.
UBI pilot: Turns out the UBI group worked more than the control group.
UBI critics: Well of course giving people more money works. But it costs too much.
UBI pilot: Turns out the money spent on UBI reduced other costs greater than the UBI.
UBI critics: Yeah but people will stop working.
What would you recommend to someone wanting to learn about Marxism?
Obviously the Manifesto can be considered a good start but perhaps there's a good youtube video, channel, or podcast.
No one denies the fact that the people of the Soviet Union experienced a famine from 1932 to 1933. Rather, we argue against the anti-communist conspiracy that claims that the famine was a deliberate policy aimed at suppressing the nationalist spirit of the Ukrainian people. (1/7)
We cannot consider something a right unless it is afforded to prisoners. If the state can take something off you for bad behaviour then it was never a right, it was a means of control
@SaraJBenincasa Lesbian necromancers in space with tragedy and comedy perfectly balanced. Amazing world building and a fantastic narrator: the Locked Tomb series by Tamsyn Muir
This is why you don’t mourn imperialists and colonialists.
Roughly every 6 days in the world, a country celebrates its independence from Britain.
It’s the most widely celebrated holiday in the world.
@Barryjw @marysuewriter I have done this twice in a nice restaurant where I was seated at the bar and could watch the server take my phone to the computer. Would never do this if they had to take it out of my sight.