WhiningCoil
Ghost of Quokka's Future
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WhiningCoil
Ghost of Quokka's Future
9m ago
I think a fake job that you never work and are entitled to no matter what and UBI are the same thing. What possible difference can you point to? They are both entitled to your money, do no work, and the right can seemingly never be revoked. The only difference is that one is a fiction to trick you into it, and the other is just straight forward. But since nobody can agree to UBI, the liars version gets rolled out instead.
WhiningCoil
Ghost of Quokka's Future
27m ago
The thing you have to understand is the WMATA jobs aren't real jobs. They are UBI. Nobody there actually works. There was a major accident maybe 10 years ago. When they went over the inspection logs, they discovered that the same log had been photocopied for decades. I don't think they even updated the dates on the forms. It was shameless, haphazard, and nobody caught it, nobody cared, even after there was an accident and people died, nothing changed. A few people immediately responsible got fired. But then, bafflingly, they sued and got their jobs back.
If The System Is What It Does, WMATA is UBI with a rotting piece of infrastructure from the 70's attached as a hostage.
Well, I suppose it also lets criminals from DC spread throughout the countryside and victimize more people.
That's their side of it.
What actually happened was a railroad tie was ignored until it was completely rotted out, and then a train derailed and people died.
"Within 1/8 inch" my ass. Just because that's the preposterous excuse they offer doesn't mean you have to believe it. Too much charity.
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