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Re:A Basic Income Is Smarter Than a Minimum Wage by tangent128 on Monday April 04, 2016 @03:38PM (#11424775)
Why would you <em>want</em> to have as many babies as you can?
Re:A Basic Income Is Smarter Than a Minimum Wage by alttab on Monday April 04, 2016 @03:40PM (#11424798)
What if having a big family brings me joy? If welfare and basic income provide the support I need to have a huge family without being productive, why would I choose to live a life that is inconsistent with my life's motivations? Why work for a living when I can do what I want, and be just as comfortable? I don't need a Tesla, so I'll leave the working for the chumps.
Re:A Basic Income Is Smarter Than a Minimum Wage by tangent128 on Monday April 04, 2016 @04:32PM (#11425341)
Congratulations, you get to be productive by raising society's next generation.

Sincerely. Many people don't desire large families, if any, or are physically incapable of reproduction. So why pressure them to when others are perfectly willing to pick up the slack?