• @loopedcandle
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    78 months ago

    IIRC, that was one of the ways Nixon sold it. If the plebes have more money, they spend it on more consumerism bullshit . . .which is money that ends up in the hands of the 1%.

    Again, this is a 20 year old college course, so my memory could be way off (and aspirational b.c. I personally like UBI).