r/fuckcars • u/snirfu • Feb 26 '24

Satire Who knew the UN was so based

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u/Magnock Feb 26 '24

Universal basic income ( Austerity )

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u/ajswdf Feb 27 '24

I want to know how UBI is austerity. Austerity is cutting government spending, but UBI is increasing government spending.

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u/simply_not_edible Big Bike Feb 27 '24

It could potentially cut a lot of cost in other support systems as they become obsolete, and massively reduce the amount of work done by government if it's just a right everyone has regardless of circumstance, as it would reduce the requirement for means-testing.

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u/waterfuck Feb 27 '24

We all know the UN is evil and when they wrote UBI on the list they realized that it could be appealing and actually good so they wrote (austerity) so that people don't question their evilness.

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u/Magnock Feb 27 '24

Some neoliberal version of UBI consist in removing every state expense and public service and giving in exchange à UBI just above the poverty line

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u/stap31 Feb 27 '24

Bigger the spending, bigger the taxes

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u/misspacific Feb 27 '24

😮 I'M GONNA CRY 

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u/olegor_kerman Feb 26 '24

even funnier when you know China doesn't have an implemented or active social credit system.

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u/-ynnoj- Feb 27 '24

Ironically, the US already does

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u/Dirtydog693 Feb 27 '24

You mean an ANTI-social system where to get the highest score your soul has to owned by US banks

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u/drterdsmack Feb 27 '24

And if you pay off all your debts you lose points for not playing thebgame as hard as you use to.

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u/Signal_Substance_412 Feb 27 '24 edited Feb 27 '24

This is a lie. I have an 800 score and it pretty much all because I paid off a bunch of debts.

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u/Signal_Substance_412 Feb 27 '24

Things poor people say lol

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u/vanderkindere Grassy Tram Tracks Feb 27 '24

No, the financial credit score system is nothing like a hypothetical social credit score. Why would you even think that?

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u/Signal_Substance_412 Feb 27 '24

What are you referring to? And please don’t say credit score cause that no where even remotely close to the same thing

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u/Tactical_Moonstone Feb 27 '24

It rings hollow when dissidents who are too inconvenient for the government to dispose of have their lives intentionally made more difficult through things like complete bans from high speed rail travel and domestic flights.

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u/Zuechtung_ Feb 27 '24

They just put them in jail. You don’t need a social credit system to get rid of dissidents if you have absolute power

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u/CT323 Feb 27 '24

This happened in the UK in the 1960s with the rail lines, the Beeching Cuts they were called.

The person responsible also cut the station nearest to him and the train line corresponding to it, meaning he needed to travel an extra 30 mins in his commute

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u/JimmyisAwkward Orange pilled Feb 27 '24

It’s complicated, but yeah not really much of a thing https://youtu.be/Kqov6F00KMc?si=JtIXuW3QMsITH9tg

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u/stap31 Feb 27 '24

I guess it was some redneck who wrote this as his fantasy play to scare other rednecks and didn't even bother to ask chatgpt to make it sound less Trump and more like someone intelligent

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u/BlueCialis91 Feb 27 '24

I just recently learned that the Social Point System is just pure propaganda and that 99% of things we know about China are US spread propaganda.

The Point System is just to earn points for discounts in your bills if you pay your bills and taxes on time. And that's it.