Posted on 03/23/2019 7:41:22 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
I thought UBI was an acronym for UNSUSTAINABLE BASIC INCOME.
I remember discussing the idea of UBI decades with friends in the dorm at college. These ideas aren’t new.
While I’m NOT a proponent for UBI, the whole concept of UBI may be in our future whether we like it or not.
As technology continues to replace human labor with robots and automation, we will eventually reach a point where we cannot provide jobs for everyone. Yes, this includes people that make management and technical decisions. Computers will eventually program themselves, they’ll make better decisions than humans, and they’ll even create and repair themselves.
So, what will humans do? Will we live in a society like in the movie Elysium? Basically, if you were lucky enough to be born into a family that has endless money, then you’ll thrive, if you are unlucky enough to be born into poverty then, in this future automated world, there may be no way for you to work your way out of it.
We may fix this ourselves through reduced reproduction, war, or one of many other idiotic population reducing actions.
Basically, it is entirely possible that someday only a small percentage of humans will actually have jobs. Does that mean that everyone else starves?
Matthew 26:11
“For you always have the poor with you, but you will not always have me.”
It is a stupid idea. Anyone who thinks it’s a good idea is a colossal idiot.
For even when we were with you, this we commanded you, that if any would not work, neither should he eat.
2 Thessalonians 3:10
The only "UBI" I need is the tax cut.
Funny how I never hear the term.
“Universal Basic Effort” or UBE...
**Is universal basic income a biblical solution to poverty?**
No!!!
Let capitalism reign!
And it gives modern leftists funny ideas about distributing that wealth to the nonworking long before we ever get there.
“Not sure why that distinction is so often overlooked.”
Shirley you jest...
It’s biblical in the sense that
without miracles, it doesn’t work.
Nope.
Jesus said that the poor we would always have with us.
Even if everyone were given the EXACT same things to start ove3r with, within a few years, there would no longer be income equity.
People are different and some are good with managing money and some are really good at wasting it.
The problem isn’t income inequity.
The probl3em is human nature.
And stop calling me Shirley.
But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you. (Matthew 6:33)
For even when we were with you, this we commanded you, that if any would not work, neither should he eat. (2 Thessalonians 3:10)
Then there is also mercy (not getting the bad you deserve) and grace (getting the good you did not merit by obedience), which is to incentivize showing the same and in overall obedience that enables one to be a blessing to others.
What shall I render unto the Lord for all his benefits toward me? (Psalms 116:12)
In those days Hezekiah was sick to the death, and prayed unto the Lord: and he spake unto him, and he gave him a sign. But Hezekiah rendered not again according to the benefit done unto him; for his heart was lifted up: therefore there was wrath upon him, and upon Judah and Jerusalem. (2 Chronicles 32:24-25)
So when his fellowservants saw what was done, they were very sorry, and came and told unto their lord all that was done. Then his lord, after that he had called him, said unto him, O thou wicked servant, I forgave thee all that debt, because thou desiredst me: Shouldest not thou also have had compassion on thy fellowservant, even as I had pity on thee? (Matthew 18:31-33)
And while Israel did provide some public assistance, private charity is what is exhorted in accordance with what one has.
Charge them that are rich in this world, that they be not highminded, nor trust in uncertain riches, but in the living God, who giveth us richly all things to enjoy; That they do good, that they be rich in good works, ready to distribute, willing to communicate; (1 Timothy 6:17-18)
But by an equality, that now at this time your abundance may be a supply for their want, that their abundance also may be a supply for your want: that there may be equality: (2 Corinthians 8:14)
In contrast, impersonal gov. welfare is seen as a "right," and thus the absence of such are considered injustice. And like a cheap women, it is not really being appreciated, and more is demanded. And UBI is part of the same thing.
In addition, the reasoning that giving people free money is justified since it will help the economy is absurd. By the rule the government should just give everyone tons of money. However, this relates to the the law of diminishing returns, in which the extra money going out is less than what comes in.
No. For any church to embrace that would be heretical.
1. It would be compulsory from without (whether by governmental or ecclesiastical coercion), not voluntary from within, and therefore could not be faith based.
2. It would make the temporal and carnal of paramount importance, placed above, even supplanting, the eternal and spiritual.
3. It would ignore human nature (a sure sign it is leftist): The poor you will always have with you.
Leftists - in or out of the church - are all about Utopia: Heaven on Earth.
It is overlooked accidentally by the useful idiots, and deliberately by the fellow travelers.
Further, Jesus did not universally mandate that all rich men give up their wealth to follow him, but one specific rich man: Faith is individual, and Jesus addressed what that individual needed to do.
In addition to all else, it would invalidate the commandment not to covet one’s neighbor’s wealth.
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