So, I no longer have to work. I can be a lazy, worthless bum and get paid big bucks for it. Nice. Of course, the best combination would be take the government income and then work in the black market, "under-the-table" to make good money through illegal trade, barter, etc., as was done widely in say, the Soviet Union. Best of two worlds. I get 'free' money from the government and then work to get more money the government doesn't know about all the while undermining and stealing from the government to fund my illicit activities. I'd call that a win-win in my book.
Who cares? I don't have to join a union if I don't officially work and take the universal basic income while operating outside the system in the black market.
Okay, so you turn universities into crappy schools of poor education too. Or, are you going to invoke that everyone has a "Right" to a high school diploma, maybe even a Bachelor's? If so, we can print these on toilet paper and put them in public restrooms so everybody can have as many as they want when they want in exercising their Right to one.
Define "effective." What happens if I don't want to better myself and just take the free money from the universal basic income you put in place? Then what? Re-education camps with forced labor? What if all I do--assuming you force me into taking these things--is pay lip service to them and ignore implementing any of that in favor of just being a lazy slob on the government dole instead? Is it off to the gulag if you don't?
And, if I don't demonstrate any of that, then what? Execution? Gulag? Prison? What is the "stick" to your carrot? How can you make me do any of that if I don't want to? Worse, what about people too stupid to get that stuff? There are people that are just dumb. What happens to them? Labor camps? Maybe a nice concentration camp with gas chambers...
Ah the joys of reading Pravda! Nothing like a government controlled media telling you what to think. Your version has the government filtering the information to present what they think is important or that the public should know.
That last bit is so idiotic it defies all reason. COVID 19 will be gone and forgotten like small pox or the Spanish flu is today within a couple of years. That statement is so myopic to history and the future that it shows the letter writer to be an utter and complete idiot, as if the rest of his or her screed doesn't.
Nothing like informers and snitches to keep the proles in line...
What the letter writer wants is
1984, or maybe North Korea's dysfunctional society. Maybe another version of Cuba on steroids. How about just a Venezuela...
No thanks.
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