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Are you so weak as an individual that government giving you 20k extra per year just for being a citizen would drive you personally to become an alcoholic or her
by gremlinsinc 10y ago
Are you so weak as an individual that government giving you 20k extra per year just for being a citizen would drive you personally to become an alcoholic or heroine abuser? Even though all studies on UBI prove otherwise? Or do you just think anyone who can't make it to middle class on their own accord is probably already a drug user?
- ThrowawayR2 10y ago>heroine abuser I protest this unseemly slander; I'll have you know that I treat women with respect. /s In answer to your question, A) you can pretty much find a study that says anything you want and B) a considerable number of my high school classmates from lower and lower middle class families did, in fact, fall prey to drug addiction and I know all too well that, had circumstances been just slightly different, I might have joined them. Am I weak? Perhaps, perhaps. But no more so than a great many others. Seriously, go to Detroit or one of these other afflicted areas and walk around. Many of these people are already on public assistance programs. If you survive the experience, come back and see if you can manage to still say to me with a straight face that people will find their own productive purpose in life given UBI.