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So what happens to the addict (drugs, gambling, whatever) that blows their UBI? Do we let them die in the streets with lack of medical care? Let their childre
by DougN7 8y ago
So what happens to the addict (drugs, gambling, whatever) that blows their UBI? Do we let them die in the streets with lack of medical care? Let their children starve?
How about the homeless in (any super expensive city that still won’t be able to afford housing there, yet for whatever reason won’t leave?
No, we’ll STILL need safety nets even with UBI.
- krapp 8y agoMorally, you're right... we should have both. Politically, however, it would be infeasible to sell UBI as anything but a means of cutting back the existing social welfare infrastructure in order to reduce taxes and the size of government. We can't have both so long as a significant number of voters want neither.