The way someone with $100,000,000 would perceive $1000 is how someone with $100,000 would perceive $1.

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        When it involves terms like “universal basic income” it becomes political.

        I just don’t like seeing left propaganda all over Lemmy. If you want to create community fine as I believe in free speech but don’t pollute other communities with your beliefs. I’ve noticed that Lemmy has gotten a less political overall but I still have noticed bad moderators for time to time.

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          “left propaganda” BAHAHAHA that’s like complaining about seeing people using science in their daily lives or talking about science and calling it science propoganda

          being right-wing is inherently irrational and anti-science, there is no room to complain about “left propoganda” especially when UBI isn’t even inherently leftist, UBI still exists solely to prop up a broken capitalist system making it live on the right of the political spectrum. left propaganda would be advocating for socialism or something, this is just advocating for welfare capitalism (which has been proven to be far better for the populace than other forms of capitalism in use).

          this post doesn’t even state an opinion on UBI though, so it’s weird that you took it as “propoganda”, or even “political”. it’s literally just proportions. it’s really hard to take someone who’s saying “the objective truth is just political propaganda” seriously.

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            That would have been one of my points too, how can you claim UBI is leftist when ideally you wouldn’t need it under a working left-wing system in the first place. I’m not very knowledgeable about politics, but “this is leftist propaganda” isn’t it, chief

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    Back in the day, a local New York City humor magazine decided to find the cheapest rich person in New York.

    They set up a bank account and mailed a bunch of rich people a check for about $2.50. Half didn’t bother to cash it, and were eliminated.

    They kept lowering the amount, until it was 13 cents. Only Donald Trump and an arms dealer cashed a check worth a dime and three pennies.