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Another benefit of UBI would be making fewer people interested in helping big companies lobby for weird protectionist trade policies because they work in that industry and would have nothing if it isn't protected.
Instead, everyone would have some baseline protection from the raw edge of poverty-- only those seeking excessive wealth would be excited and motivated to protect coal mining or farming etc.
Don't we supposedly like "free" markets? When you look closely most markets are a racket.
I once saw a debate about lobster overfishing policies. This should be a conversation about protecting the environment, but the subtext of everything was just who would get to sell lobsters to the NYC restaurants which is *very* lucrative. No one was really thinking about or talking about the actual lobsters and how they could survive so there would still be lobsters in the future.
Nonetheless some of the people in the conversation were not rich, just adapted to trade protections and scared.
@futurebird this is also a problem in #Norway. Nobody's talking about the over #fishing or the #trawling off the coast that is destroying reefs, or even the fish farms in #Norwegian #fjords that are dumping massive amounts of #antibiotics into the water - because fish farms are havens for bacteria and viruses.
But some Spanish or Portuguese boats come up to take away quota from Norwegian companies? RABBLE, RABBLE, RABBLE!
People are greedy idiots sometimes.
@futurebird and here's a fun little article :))) and by fun, I mean it makes me want to go eco tewowist :3
What's going to happen is that these #salmon are bad at breeding in the wild, they'll have eggs with wild salmon, and the eggs will not make it, meaning the #fishfarm has maybe destroyed an entire generations worth of salmon, if they can even recover.
#Bjork actually protested this, and you can see it's with good reason.
#Norway #Norwegian #Capitalism #Eco
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/feb/11/seafood-firm-bounty-escaped-salmon-norway