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Andrew Yang made a related point about the $1k/month Freedom Dividend (UBI). if you're in prison, you don't get it. more incentive to stay out and easier given

• jMyles 6y ago
  I don't recall Yang making that specific point; I'm interested in a link if you have one handy. It seems awful to me to give the state an even greater incentive to enslave people, and also deeply inequitable to incarcerated folks, given that so few even had a trial.
  • conro1108 6y ago
    Does it really incentivize the state to incarcerate more people? Surely it costs more than 1k/month to keep someone in prison even in more cost-efficient locales.
    • mushbino 6y ago
      Honestly, it depends on where the added up $1k/month is going.
    • jMyles 6y ago
      The state obviously already has incentives to create pools of extremely cheap labor. Saving $1,000 is not much extra I'll grant, but it's still an additional incentive in the wrong direction.
  • TheRealSteel 6y ago
    The whole point of the article is they were spending ~42,000$ per month per inmate. If they were instead spending 1,000$ per month per person, they could afford to be paying that to ten times as many people and still be spending a quarter of what they are now. Plus with the added bonus of (hopefully) less crime. I'm not claiming those numbers are accurate, but as presented, it's a saving to keep people out of jail, not a cost. Besides, right now there's obviously a financial incentive to keep people out of jail, yet here we are, with the US having the highest portion of their population in jail of any country in the world. The financial incentive to the state obviously isn't working now.