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> Any income that can sustain a household without any pressure to grow as people will probably hinder their progress more so than help them Are you basing thi
by RangerScience 10y ago
> Any income that can sustain a household without any pressure to grow as people will probably hinder their progress more so than help them
Are you basing this off of any familiarity with poor Indian culture?
Why do you expect "free money" to translate into "lesser progress" rather than "progress of their choice"?
Here's a different question: Have you learned more through self-directed learning, or other-directed learning? How have you chosen what to learn, and would you still have that drive-to-learn if you had free money?
Remember that UBI is in addition to salaries / wages, not instead of.
- hashhar 10y agoMost of the poor (and the rich too) here (I mean in India) look at such social programs as nothing more than cash-grabs. I have known people who make money by registering for multiple CNG connections and distributing them to other people in return for full price of the CNG cylinder (the cylinders are subsidised and the subsidy is paid by the government directly into the bank account of the person with whom the connection is registered).
- sunwooz 10y agoI would venture that the vast majority of people will benefit from a small amount of income compared to the small amount who will take advantage of the system.
- intended 10y agoBut you Also don't hear of the person who didn't get to eat cooked food because he didn't have gas regularly either.
- oxide 10y agoThere will always be abusers. You hear this same thing about food stamps in the US, to the point that Republican lawmakers start calling for big-government style drug testing (at the taxpayers expense) of welfare recipients. Wasteful spending and big government bullshit coming from one hand, while the mouth can't stop talking about cutting back on both.