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I don’t think SBF really cares about UBI. That’s pretty clear via his actions.

The problem with trying to put EA alongside post communist thinking is that actually identifying socialists and communists have huge issues with EA and can’t see how EA is the same as their ideology.

Being a capitalist is one of the biggest issues. Completely supporting the current structure of society and being able to selfishly take advantage of it by making the most money possible [and donating some of it] is not close to communist ideals. It’s better than being someone who is just selfish, but EA still allows one to selfishly take advantage of capitalism and privilege without issue. In the name of supposed altruism. Just the name is troublesome. Seeing oneself as so good.

Then going as far as celebrating this selfish behavior and making that a core part of the ideology. As well as fawning over overly rich classist and uber wealthy millionaires and billionaires who donate to one of the two major party presidents is not post-communist ideology.

To give some credit to EA, actual socialists and communists are be able to view EA people as allies at times. Not more than that though.



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