The Real Reason Zuckerberg Supports A Universal Basic Income

Via The Daily Bell

Every generation expands its definition of equality…

Now it’s time for our generation to define a new social contract. We should have a society that measures progress not just by economic metrics like GDP but by how many of us have a role we find meaningful. We should explore ideas like universal basic income to make sure everyone has a cushion to try new ideas.

-Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook CEO

Here we go. Get ready for the media to start hammering the basic income meme.

Why is someone worth $62 billion complaining about inequality? Why is the world’s 6th richest man lecturing the public on the wealth gap, and floating ideas like the government spreading OUR wealth around while hoarding his own?

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In 2015, Mark Zuckerberg claimed he would give his entire fortune away to charity in his lifetime, and promptly formed an LLC for that purpose… as opposed to, you know, a charity. This means that instead of using his own money to help people, he can spend that money on lobbying politicians in Washington to use YOUR money to help people.

See how generous these rich philanthropists are with everyone else’s money?

No, I guess true charity is the responsibility of the rest of us.

Mark Zuckerberg could give away hundreds of thousands of free expensive college educations without his net worth dropping 2%. He could provide a $12,000 grant to 1.7 million people if he actually cares about giving them a chance to “try new ideas”, and still have $42 billion left for a rainy day.

If he is so concerned about people having a cushion to fall back on, why not start a charity that gives free room and board to anyone who wants to come and explore their options for meaningful employment, like an internship?

That’s what I would do, literally open the doors to anyone who feels that they have no other options, provide them that safety net, and train them in the meantime based on their desires and pursuits. He could do this. He could empower people with his wealth.

But he doesn’t.

Instead, Zuckerberg appeals to a victim mentality:

Today, we have a level of wealth inequality that hurts everyone…

When you don’t have the freedom to take your idea and turn it into a historic enterprize we all lose and today our society is way over indexed on rewarding people when they are successful and we don’t do nearly enough to make sure people can take lots of different shots.

Facebook profits $4 billion per year. Why doesn’t Facebook hand out 200,000 $20,000 grants per year to promising young entrepreneurs who could then solely focus on their business venture, giving them the same opportunity Zuckerberg had to create (or steal) Facebook?

Facebook knows its users well–too well you might say. Facebook knows its users so well in fact that the company could provide a free quality online education to every one of its users based on their interests, skills, and desires.

But Mark Zuckerberg has other motives.

I have empathy for the poor, for those who truly don’t have an opportunity, and I would sleep easier seeing everyone with a more robust safety net. But what I can’t stand is being lectured by somebody who actually could do something about it, acting helpless without government intervention.

The government has the money to solve poverty. In this quick video, I run through the numbers which make it obvious that the government is the wrong organization to provide that cushion that Zuckerberg talks about.

https://youtu.be/_dHSPgH3mHE

Ignore Zuckerberg. Take a Page from 50 Cent

You know who didn’t have a safety net? 50 Cent. I recently read The 50th Law of Power by Robert Green, who details how 50 Cent, orphaned at the age of eight, built himself from literally nothing.

Do you think a basic income would have been conducive to his drive when it was the very fact that he had to make it that forced him to be successful? That would have allowed 50 Cent to settle, to fall back on the cushion instead of pushing through to realize his dreams and build a business empire.

Most people are so placated and dumbed down by TV and the media that they would find endless distractions to keep them from doing something meaningful. The ones who have drive find a way, despite their circumstances.

As Robert Green points out, the masses are far from the helpless peasants of the past. Today, we need only reach out and grab our freedom, our equality, and our wealth. Zuckerberg’s view of America is one based on fear.

In fact, the reality of 21st century America is something more like the following:

Our physical environment is safer and more secure than any other moment in our history….

In the Past, only white males could play the power game. Now, millions upon millions of minorities and women have been given entrance to the arena forever altering the dynamic…

Advances in technology have opened up all kinds of new opportunities. Old business models are dissolving leaving the field wide open for innovation. It is a time of sweeping change and revolution.

We face certain challenges as well. The world has become more competitive. The economy has undeniable vulnerabilities and is in need of reinvention. As in all situations, the determining factor will be our attitudes, how we choose to look at this reality.

If we give into the fear, we will give disproportionate attention to the negative and manufacture the very adverse circumstances that we dread.

If we go the opposite direction, attacking everything with boldness and energy then we will create a much different dynamic.

The government is a fear machine. The government welfare, their “help,” always keeps people in poverty instead of raising them out of it. The war on drugs, the great society, the public housing ghettos: these are the reasons people like 50 Cent were born into poverty. Only a fool would trust the government to solve these problems that they created.

Mark Zuckerberg’s ideas represent the old style method of control. A universal basic income would only preserve the old power structure by keeping the masses from participating in this revolution of technology and innovation.

Zuckerberg represents this generation’s white liberal elite identified by Malcolm X who want to keep the poor dependent and helpless. Every government program, bill, and regulation that they support is sold as a help to the poor masses when in reality those championing the government control build their power on the backs of those they claim to help.

What Zuckerberg champions will not free the masses, it will exploit them for political gain. It will make them satiated pawns to do the bidding of the elite, while Zuckerberg consolidates his control over the future.

Zuckerberg’s Zombie Nation

You know what most of those people would do with their universal basic income? They would sit on Facebook all day and be advertised to by Zuckerberg, and buy the things that Zuckerberg sells them which neither free them nor cushion them.

So who would end up collecting that basic income? Who would benefit from more tax dollars being stolen from working Americans who create wealth and produce goods and services which we need to live?

That money would be transferred to those who tell the people what they want to hear, who provide entertaining manipulations to the masses. Mark Zuckerberg would collect that cash because he is the one with the data, he knows how to wrest the dollars from the people.

He feigns his commitment to allowing people to have the type of success he has enjoyed by freeing them from all pressure, from all worry, doubt, and anxiety. He claims that his success with Facebook would not have been possible without the safety net that he enjoyed.

Well, then why not put his vast fortune where his mouth is?

He should be leading by example, and his failure to do so shows his true intentions.

Don’t fall for Zuckerberg’s tricks. The people have the power unless they fall for the old free lunch.

 

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nkit
nkit

That classic moment when the shoe fits.

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Other annon
Other annon

Zucker wants in on the state mandated vaccine $$$$$$$ scheme.Along with Gates now Clinton Foundation. R U N FOR YOUR LIFE! ………….

Harry, the Texas Patriot
Harry, the Texas Patriot

More like Mark Suckerbird!!!

IndenturedServant

“We should explore ideas like universal basic income to make sure everyone has a cushion to try new ideas.”

Puh-leeese! We already have “basic income” for tens of millions. It’s called welfare and those enjoying the “cushion” only have a couple of new ideas including drink, drugs and MOAR gibs me dats. Fucking moran!

BL
BL

I/S
There are far more white people on welfare/disability income than the “gibs me dats” segment. Some of us have been warning of the UBI scheme that is fast approaching globally. TPTB thought it would be easier to have a large number of people on entitlement programs prior to the elites turning all the citizens of the planet into welfare queens. Social security and disability are now listed as entitlements.
I can only imagine the depths of mediocrity that we will reach when snots like Zuckerjoo have the coming generations living in the 275 sq. ft.apartments in stack and pack buildings, living on UBI and eating GMO sludge and taking the required vac of the week. The euginists are winning.

IndenturedServant

I don’t make a distinction between any of them except for a minimal distinction between govt employees and the rest of the welfare/gibs me dats crowd. They’re all sucking the govt tit IMO.

IndenturedServant

Meant to add, what difference does it make what color they are? Free shitters are free shitters.

BL
BL

I/S
My intent was not to talk about color, you said (gibs me dats) which implies black people. I was trying to say that programs that were not entitlements in the past like SS and disability are now listed the same as welfare programs (entitlements).
Medicare for all
UBI for all

Book it.

hardscrabble farmer

“There are far more white people on welfare/disability income than the “gibs me dats” segment.”

I don’t really care who is the recipient of money taken from taxpayers- they are all in one way or another parasitical regardless of their race or ethnicity and their value to the society is a net loss, but when you misrepresent the facts you have to expect that you will be challenged.

In 2012, an average of 41.6% of African Americans received means-tested benefits each month. About 18% of Asians or Pacific Islanders and 13% of whites received benefits each month. Thirty-six percent of Hispanics of any race received government assistance.

And to be clear, let’s look at who the US Government calls “Whites”-

The United States Census Bureau defines White people as those “having origins in any of the original peoples of Europe, the Middle East, or North Africa. It includes people who reported “White” or wrote in entries such as Irish, German, Italian, Lebanese, Near Easterner, Arab, or Polish.”Non-Hispanic whites make up 62.6% of the country’s population. Despite major changes due to immigration since the 1960s, and the higher birth-rates of nonwhites, the overall current majority of American citizens are still white, and English-speaking, though regional differences exist.

So all Arabs, Syrians, Near easterners, etc are “Whites” for purposes of the Census and we are now roughly 62% of the population.

Do the math with the US Census numbers provided above (and don’t forget to factor in the number of illegals who are receiving assistance although they are not counted in the numbers despite an admitted use rate of 67%) then tell us who receives “far more” than any other groups.

What is really important and what is never mentioned is the demographic breakdown of who pays the taxes that provides for these benefits. How do you think that works out? Right now 44% of the US population pays ZERO income tax but white Americans are 83% of total taxpayers.

All this represents is another way to strip the property and the rights from Heritage America in order to transfer it to the replacement population. Everyone knows it, everyone understands it and everyone can see where it is heading.

The only sensible solution would be an exchange of suffrage for benefits. If you cannot support yourself, then you have to sit out the election cycle. If you pay your taxes, you may participate in the process that makes the decisions about your country. I’m not sure how that kind of arrangement wouldn’t be agreed to without debate.

BL
BL

HSF- MY POINT WAS social security and SS disability are NOW classified as entitlement programs, which means that YES because whites are 60+ percent of the population, there are far more whites receiving entitlements/welfare. If you print money out of thin air and hand every citizen a monthly stipend, we iz all niggahs at that point……get it? UBI will come from electronic zeros added to the money supply by da Fed.

GoldHermit
GoldHermit

Well he is definitely a politician. He wants to take your money, give it away, and take credit for the whole thing having little of his own skin in the game. I find him repulsive and hypocritical and promise all of you that I will never vote for him should his name appear on any ballot under my nose!

jackson
jackson

@GoldHermit:

Do you have a Facebook account?

BB

Looks like he got the idea from the fucking Kennedy’s of the 50s – 60s .They got the Federal government welfare racket down to a science. Create the public impression that you truly care about poor while all the time using tax payer money from the government to set up all kinds of social programs for the poor.In other words spend other people’s money instead of your own.I guess it’s a good way to buy votes in the meantime.

L Murray
L Murray

I thought Johnson got welfare started, am I wrong?

jackson
jackson

@L Murray:

Try Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

TampaRed
TampaRed

johnson just radically expanded it & loosened the requirements.

BB

Indent Service ,I just thought I would say have a blessed Memorial Day.Now bug off.

doug
doug

Why are the wealthy always so repugnant?

Tim
Tim

This idea is going to appeal to over 50% of America’s population like catnip to cats.

L Murray
L Murray

More likely over 90% want catnip. Hell at my age, I’d take it direct deposit, then borrow an idea from my friend and buy an RV, move in and live in that, while driving around taking scenic pictures, kind of like Roosevelt’s WPA in the 30’s. Free money 🙂 right?

Anonymous
Anonymous

We should go back to the “welfare” of the 30’s where work programs were created for unemployed men with no jobs available so they could actually work to earn for a meager living doing something worthwhile.

Today we just give people money and other aid for free and encourage staying out of work. No work required and nothing but idle time on their hands to show for it while they demand more.

BL
BL

The Swiss population voted about a year ago on a guaranteed income from the state ($2700 dollars per person per month) which they soundly rejected. They felt it would ruin the country and their society. Smart people.

underfire
underfire

He’s got his vast wealth, but now, accordingly, he doesn’t want to be viewed as a pig. He’s doing nothing but trying to present himself in a politically correct, positive light. The need for approval is a powerful motivator, particularly for the insecure.

TC
TC

I sure hope they implement Zuckerburgler’s scheme. My family lives a humble life and has no debt. With a guaranteed income, I’ll have absolutely zero fucks left to give to lift a finger laboring for the leeches and apparatchiks who currently take half of everything I make. Certainly a “smart guy” like Zuckerburgler knows that tens of millions of productive Americans will choose to retire to the rocking chair rather than continue to drag their ass out of bed every morning, so the only possible reason for proposing such a thing is to deliver the final death blow to the America as envisioned by the founders.

Mark
Mark

You can go to the supermarket and buy what it takes for you to make a hamburger for $5 dollars. Go out to eat and it becomes $15.

The government adds $10 to GDP and also tax the extra $10.

Where does the extra $10 come from in this new economy?

Without real wealth capital intensive jobs this phoney “you cut my lawn i cut yours” will collaspe.

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