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One wonders which humans you surround yourself with to consider that "basic human behavior".
by appearsonline 9y ago
One wonders which humans you surround yourself with to consider that "basic human behavior".
- xienze 9y agoTrying to maximize earnings is basic human behavior, sorry to break it to you. Welfare scams occur regularly, and that's before UBI. And you're dodging the bigger question: I'm on UBI and my money runs out, can't afford to feed the kids. Multiply that by at least several thousand people every month. Now what?
- MarchHare 9y agoFood banks exist already, why would UBI change that.
- jpindar 9y agoSame as now. You don't get more food stamps just because you ran out.
- xienze 9y agoThe difference is it's earmarked money today. There's no potential to spend your food money on a phone and then claim you can't buy food at the end of the month.
- kirsebaer 9y agoMost countries just give cash to people without income, they don't bother with a separate food program. That seems to work fine.
- irb 9y agoHow can maximising earnings be basic human behaviour when 'earnings' have only existed for a few thousand years, a tiny fraction of the history of our species?