Here are some thoughts I had upon thinking about certain Resource Based Economy (RBE)advocates who knock Universal Basic Income (UBI)... these are not entirely coherent and they start out as a response to an RBE organizer who was lamenting the struggle of trying to organize volunteers and get things done . So I decided she didn't really deserve to be onslaught by me, off on a tear. But her thoughts got me thinking about some of the reasons why volunteer efforts can run into road blocks and be difficult to pull together and it got me thinking about RBE people who are anti UBI so I figured I should start just gathering my thoughts together here.
yes it certainly is a conundrum how to rally volunteers when so many are having a hard time financially and feeling the steel paralyzing grip of poverty. I myself have only recently gotten my head above water upon securing a steady part time job after years of unemployment or not having a regular job, losing custody of my kid and literally scraping and relying on the kindness of others, begging, borrowing, what have you to get by. I can sure say i had little tolerance for 'volunteering' especially when i would be asked to do so, by people who never seemed to feel an ounce of real struggle in their lives.
So i certainly get how hard it would be to find enough committed and serious volunteers, so that no one or a few volunteers starts to feel too burdened. This is precisely the reason that while i fully support and advocate for a resource based economy and money free society. I also fully advocate for a Universal Basic Income (UBI) in transition to that end. I have read some very insensitive comments from RBE supporters against UBI basically saying people need to feel the pinch or suffer in order to fully see the need for an RBE or something along those lines and, that, as a person who has felt well more than a pinch, and done a certain amount of suffering, frankly just really appalls me.
So i certainly get how hard it would be to find enough committed and serious volunteers, so that no one or a few volunteers starts to feel too burdened. This is precisely the reason that while i fully support and advocate for a resource based economy and money free society. I also fully advocate for a Universal Basic Income (UBI) in transition to that end. I have read some very insensitive comments from RBE supporters against UBI basically saying people need to feel the pinch or suffer in order to fully see the need for an RBE or something along those lines and, that, as a person who has felt well more than a pinch, and done a certain amount of suffering, frankly just really appalls me.
I honestly feel like that attitude is no better than the capitalist who thinks the common man is just not focused or smart enough to succeed ... I mean isn't that literally the same thing. Without struggle they'll have no impetus to change, that is what the capitalists say and that is what they use an argument against an RBE. So how in good conscience can an RBE advocate use the same damn argument against UBI. Its big daddy bullshit, trying to tell people what they need to experience and how... in order to see the light. Egad.
It is like the religious cleric who feels the common man is not worthy nor capable of creating his own enlightenment and ideology. It is no better than the penal system that would punish rather than educate. And it frankly will not work as is proven by Maslow's hierarchy of needs and countless studies on what motivates people. Yea, there are proven cases where struggle and suffering has motivated people but there are ....
