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| Topic | Nancy Pelosi wants UNIVERSAL BASIC INCOME now because of what COVID-19 did!!! |
| ClarkDuke 04/30/20 3:35:24 PM #37: | adjl posted... 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.zeus, can't fathom the fact the issue exists is due to major businesses realizing they can pay bare minimum wage, as the alternative for most is starvation, ok? hes utterly incapable of viewing the world through the perspective of anyone but himself, let alone show a semblance of honest compassion for a fellow human being, ok? --- ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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