Merit is a completely subjective ideal, never base your argument on what someone deserves or doesn't deserve, because ultimately you're saying nothing.

Im against UBI for what I feel is different than yours

But are you saying that income, the thing necessary to survive, is something people do not deserve? Cause if so then just say you don't value human life. No need to beat around the bush.

Liberalism has proven itself to be bottom tier several times before, a lot of the ideas it's based on have no scientific grounds sim;ply guesswork by those who hold power.

But how many countries have had China like economic transformations? Liberal economics steered a lot of the global south away from self-determined sustainable economic models to trash in the pursuit of GDP

please say sike😔

None of those are particularly great, most of the gains simply aren't affecting the average citizen

Liberalism has created massive prosperity and drops in poverty

Fire up the extreme poverty statistics

Don't mean we can't move past it

Liberalism, and GDP fetishation, s***s got the planet in a chokehold

The day to day experience of people on the ground

Aren't those known to be dodgy, aterrible for accounting for things like inflation?

Extreme poverty has fallen from 65% to 9% over the past 150 years

Nope, inflation is always accounted for, it's in real terms

More power to the people, more people to the power.

Not completely sure about that, I'll just have a quick peak

i f*** wit all those bullet points in OP, a lot better than a lot of s*** US has in place

this is f***ing BARS

look at the countries you’ve listed, sure they’re more wealthy but WHO is getting the money

India m.economictimes.com/news/economy/indicators/wealth-of-indias-richest-1-more-than-4-times-of-total-for-70-poorest-oxfam/articleshow/73416122.cms

nigeria
qz.com/africa/1313380/nigerias-has-the-highest-rate-of-extreme-poverty-globally

aljazeera.com/economy/2020/5/4/forty-percent-of-nigerians-live-below-the-poverty-line-report

vietnam
unrisd.org/80256B3C005BE6B5/search/C0838EC429923FAAC125840000323191