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Re:A Basic Income Is Smarter Than a Minimum Wage by home_boi on Monday April 04, 2016 @04:55PM (#11425575)
People would be less willing to work for those goods than for rent and heat, so employers would have to pay higher wages.
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Re:A Basic Income Is Smarter Than a Minimum Wage by ambicapter on Monday April 04, 2016 @06:08PM (#11426141)
Those people sound useless. The same way its less expensive to house the homeless than to chase around with cops, I feel like its better to just pay them to stay in their own little world.
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