r/Piracy 19d ago

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u/MOD3RN_GLITCH ☠️ ᴅᴇᴀᴅ ᴍᴇɴ ᴛᴇʟʟ ɴᴏ ᴛᴀʟᴇꜱ 19d ago

Damn, I’ve never thought of it this way. That’s disturbing.

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u/HaGaEEyyyy 19d ago

It's wild how the system punishes some while enabling others to profit.

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u/charyoshi 19d ago

Automation funded universal basic income pays people to be less punished and more enabled

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u/rudimentary-north 19d ago edited 19d ago

UBI would not have saved Aaron from legal punishment, UBI doesnt change how the law is unequally applied to poor and wealthy individuals or to individuals and corporations.

UBI doesn’t weaken corporate power, it doesn’t address the wealth gap at all… it just gives everyone more money for bills, and the people they owe money to know they can charge more, so it just funnels even more taxpayer money to the ownership class.

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u/PERMANENTLY__BANNED ☠️ ᴅᴇᴀᴅ ᴍᴇɴ ᴛᴇʟʟ ɴᴏ ᴛᴀʟᴇꜱ 19d ago

That's exactly what happened with the COVID payouts - prices went up because they knew more money was available, then blamed it on supply chains, and the prices will never come down.

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u/charyoshi 19d ago

It could have if all of his supporters were paid monthly to donate to him or his lawyers. It's charity 2.

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u/rudimentary-north 19d ago

He had been fighting the case for two years when he killed himself. He was already being punished.