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This is a straw man. Nobody is talking about funding people to the point where they get everything they need for free. That's insane. We are talking about givin
by slimscsi 2y ago
This is a straw man. Nobody is talking about funding people to the point where they get everything they need for free. That's insane. We are talking about giving people bootstraps so they can pull them selves up with them. Reducing poverty reduces crime and health care costs as well.
- JumpCrisscross 2y ago> Nobody is talking about funding people to the point where they get everything they need for free. That's insane. We are talking about giving people bootstraps If it isn’t funding subsistence it isn’t basic income. Whether we flourish that as welfare or bootstraps is rhetorical dressing.
- slimscsi 2y ago"If it isn’t funding subsistence it isn’t basic income" is just rhetorical dressing of the term "basic income".
- JumpCrisscross 2y agoNo, it’s a definition. The reason it’s basic. “Bootstraps” is a metaphor.
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