Canâ(TM)t Apple restart the CSAM service and be compliant?

I see it that we have evolved to the point where we can recognize the same flawed argument used to oppose one form of moral harm to when trotted out to oppose a different form of moral harm.

There is no need to try and force an equivalency on different types of moral harm; that's just another form of "whataboutism".

UBI makes a huge dent in the problems of homelessness and hunger - it does a lot more than that too, but just those two problems alone are major moral harms that deserve being addressed, if not solved outright. And while it is a comparison between apples and locomotives, I'll put "hunger" and "homelessness" on the same side of the moral scale as "slavery".

> you also need to talk mechanisms to keep it from snowballing out of control.

What's to snowball? UBI is fixed to population size - it is *universal* basic income, so everybody gets it. The US population is growing by 0.5% annually, so unless there is a dramatic increase in birth rate coupled to a dramatic decrease in death rate, this is a fixed cost.

That comes out to roughly $164 billion, or roughly 25% of the annual defense budget. Not only is that not "out of control", it is relatively cheap for what it buys you.

> The alternative to UBI isn't necessarily working, it could also be living in a homeless shelter.

That is an excellent point.

> You still get UBI while working

I thought this was more generally understood... but fair point that bears repeating.

My confidence in your ability to correctly identify "socialism" is not high.

When did Slashdot become the home of alt-right Nazi types?

Whiskey Tango Foxtrot!

Seems to me a similar argument was put forward vis a vis slavery - as in "we need slavery or the economy would collapse"

What the pearl-clutchers seem to not quite get is that the guy staying home and playing video games is still contributing to the economy. His UBI is buying food, rent , power, and video games. He almost certainly isn't *saving* any money, so 100% of that UBI goes back into the economy.

What he *isn't* doing is being a lazy, inefficient worker. He's not phoning it in on a manufacturing job, or a clerical job. He isn't making mistakes and lowering productivity. There is *value* in having that guy out of the workforce.

... but his tweeting is just inane.

So Musk 2020 then ;)

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Aren't you supposed to be on Reddit?

The military has been doing vote-by-mail for decades. Are those votes fraudulent?

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Existential threat(s) - what can they not enable/achieve ?!

Bruce Schneier (circa 2015): As we look back at the post-industrial age and wonder "How could they have been oblivious to the pollution of the industrial age", 20 years from now, people will look back at present day and wonder "How could they have let so much information pollution with absolute disregard".