A Basic Income Is Smarter Than a Minimum Wage

Re:A Basic Income Is Smarter Than a Minimum Wage by Karunamon on Monday April 04, 2016 @05:06PM (#11425671)

But this is assuming that Basic Income is a solution for the poor. It's not.

So We are all going to be poorer so to speak UBI tries to make sure we somehow deal with that.

These are contradictory statements.

Any any case, even if true, it just makes my question that much more urgent. You cannot suggest a system that dismantles the existing welfare system without answering the question of what replaces it and if the cracks people will necessarily fall through become bigger or smaller.

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Re:A Basic Income Is Smarter Than a Minimum Wage by ThomPete on Monday April 04, 2016 @05:32PM (#11425857)

Not they aren't

The assumption most make about UBI is that it's for the poor, meaning someone else than themselves.

The reality is that it's for all of us because we are all going to be poor.

So not it's not contradictory it's showing the different between two ways to understand UBI.

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