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Do you ever fantisize about being so rich you could make universal basic income a reality at least for as many people as ‘your’ riches could stretch to?

I fantasize about being able to play a part in helping people escape the capitalist hellhole. I imagine all the amazing things people would create and do when they owned their own time and didn't have to worry about money/living-costs etc. ever again. I wish I could give people that. I myself do so many things out of passion. I create games, I want to build small interesting robots, I want to help people with issues using the skill-set I have. But I don't have time to do all that, instead I work at a corporate job where my labour is used to make already rich people richer. It honestly crushes my heart. And I'm just one super-average ordinary person, there are so many amazing people with such drives to do wonderful things but they can't catch a break to do them because they must prioritize food and rent. I…


I fantasize about being able to play a part in helping people escape the capitalist hellhole. I imagine all the amazing things people would create and do when they owned their own time and didn't have to worry about money/living-costs etc. ever again. I wish I could give people that.

I myself do so many things out of passion. I create games, I want to build small interesting robots, I want to help people with issues using the skill-set I have. But I don't have time to do all that, instead I work at a corporate job where my labour is used to make already rich people richer. It honestly crushes my heart.

And I'm just one super-average ordinary person, there are so many amazing people with such drives to do wonderful things but they can't catch a break to do them because they must prioritize food and rent. I wish I could give freedom from that to them, forever. I also wish I could give universal income to people who don't want to do amazing things, who just want to live and be happy. How wonderful would that be! I wish I was rich and could spend all my money to give it to people.

I know it may come off as naive, but I look at the richest in society and can't understand how one can hoard and not have the immediate instinct to help your fellow people. How the richest in society just keep hoarding and abusing people with less. But then I think that that's maybe how they got to the top in the first place, stepping over their fellow people. It is truly insane how the system we live in will monetarily reward some of the most unempathetic/ruthless behaviours.

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