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>UBI ought to replace things like food stamps and welfare. Not healthcare or retirement benefits! Why would you receive extra retirement payments on top of UBI
by mason240 10y ago
>UBI ought to replace things like food stamps and welfare. Not healthcare or retirement benefits!
Why would you receive extra retirement payments on top of UBI? That would defeat the entire purpose of UBI.
- malka 10y agohealthcare is not an extra payment though. I think it is important to have a universal healthcare even with UBI.
- maxerickson 10y agoYes, the most immediate thing that can be done to effect progress towards a UBI is to lower medical costs. The tricky question is whether we can do that. For instance, does new medical technology do much to lower lifetime spending?
- ghaff 10y ago>does new medical technology do much to lower lifetime spending? Not in general. New technologies/medicines/etc. tend to increase healthcare costs.
- mason240 10y agoI was referring the SS reference.
- lumberjack 10y agoWell in that case it would be a rotten deal. Why would anyone want this crap instead of a normal pension?
- mason240 10y agoWe are referring to Social Security type programs, not private pensions. I'm 32 have little doubt that my private retirement accounts will be seized through taxes by the time I retire, but that's a different issue.