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Re:Time for a Guaranteed Basic Income? by rbritton on Saturday January 23, 2016 @01:46PM (#10959432)
At the risk of downvotes, why can't you? At some level, personal responsibility must come into play. There's a limit on how much you can protect people from themselves, though where that limit is can be a very political topic.
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Re:Time for a Guaranteed Basic Income? by JonFish85 on Saturday January 23, 2016 @01:48PM (#10959447)
People aren't responsible though, especially not people who are needing social services like welfare. People think short term, and some need to be protected from themselves.
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Re:Time for a Guaranteed Basic Income? by aninhumer on Saturday January 23, 2016 @02:30PM (#10959664)
Poor people don't always make the best financial decisions, but I think the number of people who would waste all their money without buying any food is relatively small.
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Re:Time for a Guaranteed Basic Income? by varelse on Saturday January 23, 2016 @02:17PM (#10959591)
Because then the right lobbyists contact either FoxNews or MSNBC (depending on who's apparently to blame) and ignite a two-minute hate about how horrible this is by trotting out a few tragedies and the sheeple get their outrage on, no?
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