Yeah, that's not socialism. That's the Right's wet dream.
So all this insulting me in your other post isn't because you actually want UBI, but because you think it's the only thing Americans are stupid enough to vote for?
Since I'm trying to go about this educated, let's make sure. We're in agreement that UBI is objectively worse than universal welfare, right? So we're just talking about whether UBI is the best conservative shit that uneducated Americans are willing to buy?
I'd be willing to buy that. But I still need to know how to resolve the issue of impoverished leftists being made poorer. I'm assuming the plan you're in love with (or just don't hate) isn't Yang's stupid plan. So what's YOUR plan? Would you make it work without gutting welfare?
The relationships of the US and the similar nations, of the imperial core, with marginalized nations, of the imperial periphery, are structured for economic exploitation, under practices of neocolonial hegemony.
Such relationships of labor exploition produce a massive transfer of net wealth from the periphery to the core.
If workers in poor nations were paid as much as businesses realize from selling the products of their labor, much or all of the food donations would be unnecessary.
As it stands, such aid is only an impartial restitution for the wealth that is transferred away from workers by the sales of the products they create through their labor.