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Comment by Seth Ackerman
Doctoral candidate in History at Cornell. Editorial board of Jacobin magazine.
Reducing work-time(...) is enormously preferable, because everyone benefits equally and together. The alternative – reducing the number of workers per capita (with an UBI) – amounts to the creation of essentially arbitrary classes of idle and segmented citizens, whose existence would be virtually guaranteed to divide and embitter the working class to the benefit of reactionary pro-work politics.Disputed source (2012)
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The Jacobin article by Seth Ackerman from May 2012 contains a closely related passage and is correctly attributed to him, but the submitted wording is not verbatim: the article says Reducing work-time in this kind of way, along the intensive margin and later workers per capita, and it does not include the inserted parenthetical with an UBI. That makes this a materially altered quote rather than an exact one. ([jacobin.com](https://jacobin.com/2012/05/the-work-of-anti-work-a-response-to-peter-frase/))
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YouCongress
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· 19d ago
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Quote verified via web search. The exact phrasing appears in Seth Ackerman's article "The Work of Anti-Work: A Response to Peter Frase" published in Jacobin (May 2012). The quote argues that reducing work-time is preferable to UBI because it avoids creating arbitrary classes of idle citizens. Vote "against" on "Implement a universal basic income" is correctly aligned with the quote's anti-UBI stance. Updated source_url from jacobinmag.com to jacobin.com (canonical domain).
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Hector Perez Arenas
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· 3mo ago
replying to Seth Ackerman