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Universal Basic Income – Communist Trap Or Social Welfare? #380

Posted on 5 October 20235 October 2023 by Chris Thrall

Universal Basic Income – Communist Trap Or Social Welfare, features Antony Sammeroff who explains the pitfalls of such an experiment.

Universal Basic Income – Communist Trap Or Social Welfare?

Universal Basic Income – Communist Trap Or Social Welfare, features Antony Sammeroff. He has worked for many years as a therapist and is a champion of freedom lovers. He discusses the theory of Universal Basic Income. Antony is also host of the ‘How To Be Yourself & Love It’ podcast.

Transcript from ‘Universal Basic Income’ podcast

Antony – That was at the time when I became a Libertarian. There are a lot of ways that Libertarian policies would solve poverty or reduce poverty. People didn’t understand them and Libertarians didn’t talk about them much. I was talking about poverty and they think that if you like free markets and capitalism, you must just hate the poor. So I kind of wrote to address that it’s a little bit of a Trojan horse. It’s called UBI for and against and I did try and mount the best argument I could in favor of UBI. Fundamentally I’m against it, so it’s the only comprehensive critique of the UBI scheme that I’m aware exists. The government has interfered with housing and made the cost of accommodation so high.