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Yes, but what about when the alcoholic's wife and adorable child show up on the news because they're starving and don't have heat? Or when someone's grandma get
by breischl 11y ago
Yes, but what about when the alcoholic's wife and adorable child show up on the news because they're starving and don't have heat? Or when someone's grandma gets scammed and ends up living on the street?
Most people are not willing to tell them "tough luck." So you're back to having all social programs that try to prevent people from doing stupid, short-sighted things.
- sokoloff 11y agoThe wife has her own UBI presumably. I leave it to the family to work it out. Trying to get a UBI on top of all existing handouts seems doomed to failure to me.
- jandrese 11y agoYou missed the whole point. Said abusive drunk takes all of the money for the household. It happens in real life. You might say "just leave the bum already!", but it's not that simple. People get trapped in shitty situations all the time due to family or religious or mental conditions. In some ways UBI is the most libertarian of the social safety net options (as weird as that sounds), but it assumes that people act in their rational self-interest or if they are self destructive that there is no collateral damage. That's just not true in the real world. Like I said, this is why we can't have nice things.