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Would it not have been easier to just choose people at random from California’s population? Then it would have been actually universal.
by ixacto 5y ago
Would it not have been easier to just choose people at random from California’s population? Then it would have been actually universal.
- zsmi 5y agoAs long as you're prepared for the political backlash when someone is unhappy with the selection. For example, if you're randomly selecting 100 people the odds of getting someone in the 1% are ~2/3. Making UBI payments to someone in the 1% would likely kill this experiment.
- ixacto 5y agoThere would be political backlash. But there’s political backlash right now with this program because it’s not universal. If a ubi program is universal that means the wealthy can’t complain that the poor are the only one being it.