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You can't have a lock down without universal basic income. You can't force some families into poverty to protect some other families without suitable economic c

You can't have a lock down without universal basic income. You can't force some families into poverty to protect some other families without suitable economic compensation.

Zenst 6y ago
Certainly the whole aspect of UBI would of been better for all in these times and hopefully some review of that will happen. In the UK we have Universal Credit - a means tested benefit system that is halfway-house towards UBI in some ways. https://www.gov.uk/universal-credit https://www.gov.uk/universal-credit
mlthoughts2018 6y ago
This is why an exceptional situation like a pandemic lockdown warrants a massive stimulus package in Congress - so that wages can still be paid to people the government must unfortunately prevent from working. It paints an unfortunately one-sided picture in the US at least - there is just no arguing that the economic suffering and inflaming regular people to become wrongly anti-lockdown is the fault of Congressional Republicans and the president for not urgently passing additional very large stimulus and relief packages.
viraptor 6y ago
Melbourne did just that. Could it be done better? Sure. Can it be done without ubi? Definitely.
- sumedh 6y ago
  > Can it be done without ubi? Definitely Melbourne(and Australia) had Jobkeeper and JobSeeker payments.
  - viraptor 6y ago
    Every country has some specific social support system. I was commenting specifically about the ubi which just doesn't exist at large.