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This isn't meant to be snarky, but wouldn't UBI/GDI achieve just that?
by jonway 2y ago
This isn't meant to be snarky, but wouldn't UBI/GDI achieve just that?
- rahimnathwani 2y agoOP is proposing giving people money to stay in rural areas. I'm suggesting we should encourage them to move.
- tavavex 2y agoIs there a huge difference in outcomes, really? On average, I feel like the people who live in dead-end cities and towns that have no hope left in them would move on their own, given the money. But the places that still have promise in the form of natural resources or manufacturing capacity could get their economies restarted, letting them attract people and investment.
- rahimnathwani 2y agoI'm talking about the folks mentioned here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43437112 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43437112
- seanclayton 2y agoRip people away from the only concept of support they have: Family. Unless your plan includes the ability to move generations of families, you aren't helping people, you are just keeping them impoverished and separated.
- madeofpalk 2y agoWhy would you plan to economically nuke an area, rather than trying to lift it up?
- rahimnathwani 2y agoWhat does it mean to 'economically nuke' an area that is already devoid of economic opportunity? We should care about the people, not the institutions.