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Maybe you would, and you know what? Good for you if you do. Just about everyone I know would start a business, volunteer, do creative things, contribute to ma
by Frondo 9y ago
Maybe you would, and you know what? Good for you if you do.
Just about everyone I know would start a business, volunteer, do creative things, contribute to making the world a better place.
But, at the end of the day, I don't care how people spend their time or their money. If some fraction of the population wanted to bum around on their minimal UBI for the rest of their lives, fine by me. It's never going to lead to a life of luxury, and I quite honestly don't care if that's how they want to waste their lives.
- hossbeast 9y agoIf you don't care at all, then why are you okay financing that situation with your taxes?
- mathgeek 9y agoThis argument has no foundation in logic. There is a subset of people who are fine with paying those taxes and do not care how the intermediary recipients of those funds spend them.
- Frondo 9y agoShit, man. If "financing things I don't like with my taxes" is the hill I'm going to die on, I'm going to set my sights on the insane military budget we use to turn far-away countries into toilets and parking lots. Funding my fellow countrymen who want to squander their lives, so long as they're doing so peacefully and in the privacy of their own homes? Sign. me. up.
- jacalata 9y agoBecause all they care about is that people are given the opportunity? Your question is a complete non sequiter.
- keymone 9y agobecause of the multitude of positive effects it has on society that i live in. less depression, less poverty, less risky or criminal behavior, more economic activity, better educators, better medical care workers. this list can go on forever.
- CapsAdmin 9y agoEven if you personally don't need or use the system today maybe it can be useful for you in the future.