{"id":84764,"date":"2023-03-30T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-03-30T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=84764"},"modified":"2023-03-28T07:26:17","modified_gmt":"2023-03-28T12:26:17","slug":"a-hell-we-can-make-happen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=84764","title":{"rendered":"A Hell &#8220;We&#8221; Can Make Happen"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I came across this tweet last week. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Imagine this: withdrawing your UBI check that was seamlessly deposited in your public banking account after picking up your kids from awesome public school and then taking green transit back home to your social housing flat <br><br>A future we can make happen<\/p>&mdash; Alex Lee \u674e\u5929\u660e (votealexlee.bsky.social) (@alex_lee) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/alex_lee\/status\/1639312199377387520?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 24, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>At first blush, I thought it was parody, and not especially good.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I moved from there to Assumption B &#8211; a chuckleheaded sophomore political science major from Austin, or Seattle, or maybe the University of Saint Thomas.  It can be hard to tell parody from reality with them, sometimes.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That&#8217;s what I thought.  Or, let&#8217;s be honest, that&#8217;s what I <em>hoped<\/em>.   Parody, or young lefty dolt.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But no.  Mr. Lee is a California state assemblyman, detailing the world he and most of Big Left hold out as their idea. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>No mention of that social credit score you gotta pass to get into your &#8220;public bank account&#8221;.  No mention of who&#8217;s going to be teaching at those &#8220;awesome public schools&#8221; or building, maintaining and operating that &#8220;green transit&#8221;, or even why either would exist if people get Universal Basic Income.   No mention of how in a world without the generation of value and wealth, the &#8220;UBI&#8221; will pretty much inevitably devolve into ration tickets, to buy&#8230;what?  Who&#8217;s doing the producing, the farming?  Robotic cricket mills creating insect paste is about the  only logical option.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I came across this tweet last week. At first blush, I thought it was parody, and not especially good. I moved from there to Assumption B &#8211; a chuckleheaded sophomore political science major from Austin, or Seattle, or maybe the University of Saint Thomas. It can be hard to tell parody from reality with them, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[68,30,51,69],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-capitalism-v-socialism","category-liberty","category-liberal-tyranny","category-socialism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84764","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=84764"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84764\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84767,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84764\/revisions\/84767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=84764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=84764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=84764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}