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>Which able bodied person? That can be debated, but I'd argue for somewhere around the median. >Why is someone who was once well off but fell on hard times en
by aninhumer 12y ago
>Which able bodied person?
That can be debated, but I'd argue for somewhere around the median.
>Why is someone who was once well off but fell on hard times entitled to more help than someone who was born into hard times?
I'm not sure what you mean? I'm just suggesting we might want a supplementary income for disabled people, since they don't have the option to supplement their basic income with a job.
- bradleyjg 12y agoThe entire idea behind the basic income is to stop trying to make distinctions between the deserving poor and the undeserving poor and to get rid of the entire gate-keeping infrastructure. Keep the existing cobweb of special purpose programs and you've destroyed a major point of the exercise. If the BI is too low for disabled people, then it is too low.
- aninhumer 12y ago>If the BI is too low for disabled people, then it is too low. Whatever level you set it at, disabled people will get less money than able-bodied people on average, though no fault of their own. I don't think that's fair however you frame it.
- jnbiche 12y ago> The entire idea behind the basic income is to stop trying to make distinctions between the deserving poor and the undeserving poor and to get rid of the entire gate-keeping infrastructure Bingo. Well, it's not the entire idea, but it's definitely a very compelling idea.