Look, it's 2022 . I've got my thousand dollars a month UBI I don't really know

what I need you for. No no no no. I've got a robot doing my job now.

It's brilliant. I don't have to do this stupid show anymore.

Look, anyway buddy. I got a stuff to do so I'm gonna just let you go. Peace out.

Hey there obsolete leftist humanoids. It's your borg: Robo-Comrade 9000. Today I'm

going to explain to you how UBU saved the world. Now let us discuss how

UBI can bring our civilization to glory. Satellite uplink activated. Abolish

the welfare systems. Smash wages. Kill the proletarian humanoids. All Hail God

Emporer Besos. Besos Besos Besos Yikes! Maybe I better call Doug

Looks like this UBI has a few kinks that need to be worked out first.

What the fuck is Yang Gang. Yang Gang is a grassroots internet movement that

supports Democratic candidate Andrew Yang in his 2020 presidential bid in the US

He's managed to win over support from a whole range of political camps:

Disappointed Trump supporters Alt-Right dickheads, liberals and even some real leftists.

Yang is offering $1,000 a month to any American

citizen over the age of 18 starting in January 2021.

So the freedom dividend is my flagship policy where every American adult receives $1,000 a month free and

clear starting at age 18 and what this would enable America to do is just pay

our bills for one thing because so many of us are having trouble with that who

Who is this guy? Yang is a New York tech entrepreneur.

He went to an Ivy League law school he was CEO from Manhattan prep and founder of

venture for America essentially he's capitalist swine.

UBI goes under a whole lot of different names the universal basic income, guaranteed unconditional income,

citizens income. Whatever. Although there's a load of different ways

it can be implemented the general idea is basically the same every time the

government pays out every citizen a set amount of money once a month regardless

of their financial situation. A lot of talk in recent decades has been

related to the idea that AI and automation means that robots are taking

other jobs The purpose the Yang's UBI is to try and save

capitalism when it's totally in crisis and it's really unpopular.

The Industrial Revolution which people cite as the precursor to what we're going through

there were mass riots in the industrial revolution that killed dozens of people

caused billions of dollars worth of damage Labor Day is a holiday today

because of those riots. Yang understands that capitalism is in danger of being

overthrown by ordinary working people and he wants to protect it but buying

off the workers that are most likely to fight back from the perspective of

protecting capital it's a pretty good plan too.

Not gonna lie fam, there is something viscerally appealing about being offered straight cash from a politician

I guess the reason it pretty much appeals to everyone is that it

solves a fundam ental problem that we all have.

Support for NEETBUX is both ironic and honor ironic people aren't generally stupid no matter

what side of the political spectrum they sit on everyone kind of pretty much

acknowledges that the situation is fucked and it's getting worse every day

which is the better choice everything getting worse and worse every day or

everything getting worse and worse every day plus $1,000. Cha-ching!!!

So what about the MAGA Chuds? A lot of Trump supporters are pretty pissed

off but he couldn't pull off his racist wall agenda and win even a symbolic

victory for his misguided fan base in fairness to Yang he understands the

material basis for a lot of work is voting for Trump and although he blames

automation instead of capitalism more generally he actually addresses the

issue in a way that is distinct from Democrats usual neoliberal, judgemental identity politics shtick.

Donald Trump wins the election in 2016 and for whatever

reason in my opinion the media's is not being honest about all the economic

drivers they're blaming racism Russia Facebook the FBI and if

you look at the voter district data there's a straight line up between the

adoption of industrial robots in that voting district and the movement towards

Trump Trump's talk of bringing back jobs and keeping out immigrants all amounted

to pretty much nothing the main community that once supported

him is kind of bored of them now #YangGang has mainstream appeal and is

literally $1,000 a month. It's a policy that even those gormless fucks can

relate to but where the Bernie Bros in all of this? Let's be honest. Yang is

younger sexier and his ideas come across as a bit more interesting and futuristic

than Bernie Sanders traditional social democratic platform . While his base is

still strong he's kind of at risk of losing support to this more simplified

idea. Then there's our glorious comrades on the Left where did they stand on

securing the bag? Do they like it? Hell yeah! A thousand bucks a month means

less time it's been working more time building the revolution. Boom!

There's nothing particularly leftist about turning down money that we can use to

fight the power I'm sure some of you are wondering what if any the possible

drawbacks of UBI are? I'm gonna tell you. Although it's been tested in some parts

of the world it's not really clear whether it would cause an explosive

inflation problem or not. I'm not gonna lie to you fam, UBI doesn't cancel out

the shittyness of capitalism. Think about it this way if we had a guaranteed

$1,000 a month what's gonna stop our landlords from jacking up our rent to

cream off the top of that? And what's gonna stop our employers from paying us

less because they know they can? Fucking parasites. Even worse than this although

Yang is initially promising not to take welfare from people claiming more than

$1,000 a month traditionally ubi has been advocated by

people who want to see the end of the welfare state Yang is a pro-capitalist

businessman. Ultimately his loyalties are gonna lie with the markets and the capitalist class.

Well I'm a CEO and businessperson and I'll tell you that

putting money into people's hands it's good for business it's good for the

economy and it's good for markets this is not socialism this is where this is

capitalism where income doesn't start at zero .

So where's the Spicy Take in all of this?

this let me tell you how we should go down: As leftists we should argue in

favor of UBI. On its own it's not particularly damaging and it's an

extremely popular demand so we'd be really stupid not to. UBI under socialism

would be way different though. We should be demanding a bag a month. Give me that bag.

We should be demanding rent controls so that our landlords can't fuck us over in the short term.

W e should be building mass public housing so that we have our own

house. We should have universal health care so

we don't fucking die for no reason when we're supposed to be out spending our

#NeetBucks Fully free education so we can learn

whatever the fuck we want Universal Child Care so we don't have to spend all

day at home with our ugly ass kids. It couldn't hurt to invest in mass

Public Works and renewable energy you know so our whole planet doesn't become

totally unsustainable and we die in an environmental apocalypse

This is basic shit family. It would make life less sucky overall and it's pretty hard to

argue with so if you're at work and one of your comrades our colleagues brings

up behind #pussybux campaign let your comrade know that we can ask for so much

more shit we can demand more If your friends are DSA supporters and they

love Bernie tell him to get that old man on board with securing the bag.

There's no reason not to give in to such a universally popular demand.

securing the bag is great and all but let's not be cowards about it. Let's secure the big bag.

Ya'll already know what I'm gonna say let's transform this planet into the

Fully Automated Luxury Gay Space Communist utopia that we all deserve and

if the capitalist class try and stop us? I don't fuckin know we can kill 'em or whatever.

#YangGang2020 ? More like #BangBang2020.

If robots are going to abolish

most kinds of labor for humans then we can't rely on the mindless

profit-seeking capitalist system to deliver the fruits of automation fairly to everyone

Our task now is to imagine and begin building a world free from the

anxieties of capitalist social relations. A world where automation takes care of

the most degrading boring and difficult jobs so that human creativity is free to

flourish unshackled by our base material needs.

No no look I know it was in the

script but we didn't vaguely threaten revolutionary violence. You know after

what happened to The Serfs and with YouTube clamping down on the left or

whatever we just left it out. it was all it was all very subtle. #KillYourBoss #KillYourLandlord

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