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> despite paying more than some $200k per homeless And yet we're told universal basic income is too expensive. Give People Money [2018] https://www.amazon.com
by specialist 3y ago
> despite paying more than some $200k per homeless
And yet we're told universal basic income is too expensive.
Give People Money [2018]
https://www.amazon.com/Give-People-Money-Universal-Revolutionize/dp/1524758760 https://www.amazon.com/Give-People-Money-Universal-Revolutio...
Am policy noob, so I don't know how to articulate this properly:
I support whatever social safety net wrap around services people may need.
But I don't support our top-down welfare bureaucracy. When a mere fraction of our spending benefits the actual people in need, wtf are we doing.
How I usually phrase it:
Help people help themselves. Then help those who can't.
(Rant over, thanks for listening.)
- underlipton 3y ago>When a mere fraction of our spending benefits the actual people in need, wtf are we doing. Giving jobs to the people "worthy" of a non-profit position (unemployable anywhere else). Which isn't to say that non-profits are particularly useless, just that a large swath of jobs in the US are just there so that someone's friend or family member or neighbor won't become destitute. If you're not in the network? Tough luck.