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What point is it that you're saying I want it to make? Please cite my comment so I can understand exactly what you're referring to.
by notch656a 4y ago
What point is it that you're saying I want it to make? Please cite my comment so I can understand exactly what you're referring to.
- thunky 4y agoYou said (here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32827491 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32827491) that the APF led to: > increased number of people getting zapped out their rocker on drugs Which was part of your case that APF is a failed experiment and not worthwhile. But the study you cited does not suggest that UBI created an increased number of drug abusers. It did say that there was an uptick in drug incidents, but it also concluded that UBI payments were not responsible for increasing crime (when considering drug incidents and other crimes in total). It's likely that drug use always ticks up on payday, UBI or not. Same for gambling and other bad habits that require money. I've never heard anyone suggest that the solution to drug abuse is to make people so poor that they can't afford to buy drugs, but in a roundabout way this is kindof what you're saying. Grocery shopping and paying bills and likely tick up on payday as well.