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Re:Moving Forward on Basic Income by cwp on Tuesday May 31, 2016 @03:23PM (#11809356)
Only if they go to a college with no tuition.
Re:Moving Forward on Basic Income by zanny on Tuesday May 31, 2016 @05:08PM (#11810253)
I can easily imagine plenty of state schools would trade UBI for room, board, and tuition for the brightest students.

For the rest? We need more trade schools today, and we are talking about something theoretical at least years away and probably decades, when we will hopefully be past the ancient university model of tremendous expense and most people are taking courses online or through trade schools at very little cost.

Re:Moving Forward on Basic Income by Alupis on Tuesday May 31, 2016 @04:02PM (#11809706)
> Only if they go to a college with no tuition

Tuition is due a few times a year (usually twice, but some systems are quarterly). If the student gets a BI every month, there should be no issue affording tuition, in addition to living expenses.

Re:Moving Forward on Basic Income by dragonwriter on Tuesday May 31, 2016 @08:02PM (#11811237)
> Tuition is due a few times a year (usually twice, but some systems are quarterly). If the student gets a BI every month, there should be no issue affording tuition, in addition to living expenses.

Tuition, fees, books, etc., together at many institutions are, annually, is near or even greater than the total amount of annual per-person UBI in many proposals I've seen.