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What happens if I squander my basic income on something frivolous and I can't get a job? Wouldn't there still need to be social programs to prevent people who
by dorkrawk 13y ago
What happens if I squander my basic income on something frivolous and I can't get a job? Wouldn't there still need to be social programs to prevent people who fuck up from just starving to death? How would a basic income coexist with current systems of debt?
Could this exist without VAST healthcare reform? What happens when people get (expensively) sick?
Who gets a basic income? Every citizen over 18? Every non dependent? Isn't a basic income for someone with 5 kids fundamentally different than a single person? Wouldn't a basic income even in the same state be vastly different (say Chicago vs Urbana in Illinois)?
This is certainly an interesting idea and I'm interested in people's thoughts on these and other details.
- TeMPOraL 13y agoFood and basic healthcare should be free. Literally free. There's no reason for it not to be in the future, in the very same condition that encourage us to adopt BI. And if people won't eat even then... well, there's only so much you can do if the other person doesn't want to live.
- ihateloggingin 13y agoWhen someone has so lost control of himself that he can't feed himself -- even though he has the money to do so -- we put him into custody in a hospital, and hopefully rehabilitate him. That's severe mental disorder. You're absolutely right about healthcare; you can't replace public healthcare with a basic income.