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  • The right to free speech is a negative right, in that nobody is forced to do anything to give it you.

    What a UBI is asking for is the equivalent to the right to life as giving everybody a printing press is the freedom of speech.

    Not necessarily a bad idea, but a very expensive one that maybe ought to wait until the planet isn't dying.

  • No.

    In the case of the child, they are expected to earn their living upon adulthood. In the case of the disabled person they are expected to earn their living in the event of a suitable cure or accomodation.

    No one, neither me nor you has an inalienable right to be alive, how could we when it is a right that one day nature will in no uncertain terms, deny us?
    You might as well declare space flight a human right.

  • people are inherently lazy and need to be compelled to work

    I don't believe I ever said that? but to bite the hook anyway:

    Certainly people can be creative without compulsion, but that's a different thing from 'Work' in the economic sense. How many of the 'owner class', as you call them, take up as hobbies an essential role like Nurse, Farmer or Carpenter? How many even shirk a prestigious roles as managers, designers or artists that can nonetheless be of benefit?

    Certain activities essential for society are simply too unpleasent to be done in the quantity needed without compensation (I will not say compulsion) being offered.

  • I do, that is included in the term 'responsibility', a parent, teacher or guardian has the responsibility the ensure the welfare and safety of the children under their care. Yet, we do not jail anybody if (for example) a child in their care develops cancer.

    Likewise, all people have an obligation to do what they can, but are not to be blamed if they are unable to for no fault of their own.

    The saying is "From each according to their ability, to each according to their need. Even the disabled, in almost all cases, have considerable ability. In many cases it might not be enough to cover their cost of living, and the state must subsidize them, that doesn't mean they shouldn't be encouraged from giving back what they can however.

  • I mean, one part of the economy the government (or, parliament at least) has control of is the money supply, which is pretty much the sole driver of inflation. If he'd genuinely wanted to (not necessarily saying he should've) he could've.