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| Topic | Nancy Pelosi wants UNIVERSAL BASIC INCOME now because of what COVID-19 did!!! |
| adjl 04/30/20 2:29:54 PM #36: | Zeus posted... Honestly, UBI is only really sustainable when the government owns all means of production because otherwise there's no incentive for anybody to work. Pretty much every UBI/minimum income experiment conducted hasn't run into that problem. There's no incentive for anybody to work in garbage jobs that don't pay enough to attract people to them but can currently get away with it because the immediate alternative is starvation, sure, but people generally like to do something with their lives. People also generally like better lives than mere subsistence, and that takes work on top of whatever minimum they're getting. Exceptions will always exist that are content to live off of that bare minimum and do nothing while mooching off of the system, but that's going to happen with any sort of social support, and those small pockets of abuse shouldn't result in the supports being taken away from the people that use them properly. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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