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I don't think you've captured the nature of the question. If you give everyone a cash handout, some percentage of them might spend all of their allowance on al
by flubert 11y ago
I don't think you've captured the nature of the question. If you give everyone a cash handout, some percentage of them might spend all of their allowance on alcohol and lottery tickets, and not have enough left over for food or rent at the end of the month, leaving them hungry and homeless. Under BI, is this situation acceptable, because it is their own fault for "wasting" the money?
- dllthomas 11y agoIf someone can't keep their lives together with a reasonable income, sure it's their fault for wasting their money. I wouldn't say that they don't deserve help at that point, but I would say that it's clear they need some deeper kind of help than money (targeted or not).
- beat 11y agoIf someone is so disabled that BI alone won't save them, then yes, other things will step in. This is a great opening for private charity, in fact. Given BI as a baseline, the conservative dream of having private charity handle things might actually work, because it would be limited to the exception cases.
- patmcc 11y agoPeople can do this currently with food stamps too (by selling them for 80% of face value or whatever), so it's not a new situation. So I'd say yes, we obviously can't give people unlimited funds.