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As a payor of six digits of taxes, this sounds expensive and likely to be taken advantage of by the lazy. When I grew up my basic income was something called "
by unstatusthequo 10y ago
As a payor of six digits of taxes, this sounds expensive and likely to be taken advantage of by the lazy.
When I grew up my basic income was something called "wages," for which I worked to earn.
Someone has to fund shit like this. Handouts do not promote self help, but the opposite: dependence on the government. Is that something to be proud about?
- alexandercrohde 10y agoI find this attitude dismissive. It's easy for those of us who are very successful financially to internalize an attitude that we got wealth because we deserve it, because we tried hard. It's nice to believe the things which allow us to pat ourselves on the back and not need to be bothered with anything like "research" or "trying it out."