Right now Basic Income is $0. The proposal is to make it > $0. Happy to discuss the particular political strategy of a UBI starting point. But suggesting "you can't call it basic income because that language is a compromise" is just kinda blind to the status quo.
I'm reminded of the fights over minimum wage, where leftists pretend the minutea of the debate even matters in a national legislature that refuses to do anything good ever for any reason. Give me a national organization with some traction on the issue and then talk to me about what specific bullet points they should include in their manifesto.
Right now Basic Income is $0. The proposal is to make it > $0. Happy to discuss the particular political strategy of a UBI starting point. But suggesting "you can't call it basic income because that language is a compromise" is just kinda blind to the status quo.
I'm reminded of the fights over minimum wage, where leftists pretend the minutea of the debate even matters in a national legislature that refuses to do anything good ever for any reason. Give me a national organization with some traction on the issue and then talk to me about what specific bullet points they should include in their manifesto.