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Re:A Basic Income Is Smarter Than a Minimum Wage by jack9 on Monday April 04, 2016 @03:41PM (#11424809)
> It keeps people who want to work from working.

That doesn't mean the work (the individual is capable of) is valuable enough to justify the position, in the locality.

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Re:A Basic Income Is Smarter Than a Minimum Wage by occamrazor on Monday April 04, 2016 @04:41PM (#11425428)
But what are the alternatives, for the people whose productivity is lower than minimum wage?
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