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Re:A Basic Income Is Smarter Than a Minimum Wage by BurningFrog on Monday April 04, 2016 @04:21PM (#11425223)
In the minimum wage context, the advantages are pretty clear.

Mostly bringing people outside of productive society inside it. Homeless, unemployed, addicts etc.

This is not about making middle class college graduate parents work more.

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Re:A Basic Income Is Smarter Than a Minimum Wage by firethief on Monday April 04, 2016 @05:15PM (#11425727)
As GP was saying, employment doesn't help with homelessness or addiction; income and sense of purpose do. Employment does help with unemployment, but that's kind of begging the question.
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Re:A Basic Income Is Smarter Than a Minimum Wage by BurningFrog on Monday April 04, 2016 @07:09PM (#11426498)
I completely disagree.

Going daily to a workplace, helping out as part of a team and being useful are essential to becoming a productive member of society.

This is hard for us college educated middle class people to grasp, but many people have grown up without knowing anyone with a regular job and need to get eased into the basics.

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