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Re:Moving Forward on Basic Income by jimbokun on Tuesday May 31, 2016 @05:53PM (#11810590)
"This makes sense to me because I have a feeling most people who would need to rely on BI also have a problem managing money."

This belief is the underpinning for most current welfare systems, but is there any evidence supporting it?

Some citations to studies indicating the opposite is true:

https://givedirectly.org/research-on-cash-transfers

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Re:Moving Forward on Basic Income by danielweber on Tuesday May 31, 2016 @06:43PM (#11810857)
> dozens of high-quality evaluations of cash transfer programs spanning Africa, Asia, and Latin America and including both unconditional and conditional cash transfer

The richer the society you live in, the more it becomes lbhe snhyg[1] that you are poor. Imagine how hard you would have to work to be homeless in the world of Star Trek TNG, for example.

[1] I rot13'd that text because it's not the best expression, and it might knock some people off, but I don't have time to euphemize things for adults.

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Re:Moving Forward on Basic Income by wutbrodo on Tuesday May 31, 2016 @07:28PM (#11811088)
Yeesh just put it in scare quotes next time. Rot13 doesn't make it any less offensive to those who would be offended and just makes it more annoying to read for everyone.
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