I've never mentioned a utopian ideal. I addressed the false implication that UBI was somehow opposed to the availability of work.
> for ending poverty
Poverty can be mitigated, but not ended.
> is UBI plus slave wages for the 99 percent.
No, "slave wages" makes even metaphorical sense only in the sense that unmitigated capitalism provides economic coercion to work; a system with UBI doesn't share that features of unmitigated capitalism.
Further, while replacing the minimum wage with UBI reduces the minimum value of jobs that can be offered, it reduces the pressure to accept low wage jobs, so low wages jobs are likely to accepted for experience or other reasons, but not economic coercion,
I've never mentioned a utopian ideal. I addressed the false implication that UBI was somehow opposed to the availability of work.
> for ending poverty
Poverty can be mitigated, but not ended.
> is UBI plus slave wages for the 99 percent.
No, "slave wages" makes even metaphorical sense only in the sense that unmitigated capitalism provides economic coercion to work; a system with UBI doesn't share that features of unmitigated capitalism.
Further, while replacing the minimum wage with UBI reduces the minimum value of jobs that can be offered, it reduces the pressure to accept low wage jobs, so low wages jobs are likely to accepted for experience or other reasons, but not economic coercion,