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I wrote the article he is responding to. My reply is here: http://slatestarcodex.com/2018/05/16/basic-income-not-basic-jobs-against-hijacking-utopia/#comment-62

• tom_mellior 8y ago
  In the other article you'd like to see refuted, you're mostly attacking windmills. I've led many UBI discussions, and never ever have I met a UBI proponent who said that people with medical needs should have their health insurance taken away and replaced by the same UBI amount healthy people get. For other things you point out the solution yourself, like conservatorship, which exists. Yet another point is the old "they will just drink booze all day and sit in front of the TV". Which is certainly true for some people, and empirically known to be false for others. Lots of people are rich enough to drop their job and switch to drinking and TV all day... yet we know that they don't.
  • tom_mellior 8y ago
    > you're mostly attacking windmills Or strawmen, rather. (Too late to edit.)
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