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Re:Universal Basic Income Is a Neoliberal Plot to Make You P... by ddexter289 on Monday August 08, 2016 @10:59AM (#12248279)
Misleading title. The author makes the argument that UBI would trade off with other vital social services and that's bad. It's fine to point this out as a risk of UBI adoption, but it certainly isn't an argument for why UBI is inherently bad. Plenty of people would be happy to see UBI co-existing with long standing social benefits.
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Re:Universal Basic Income Is a Neoliberal Plot to Make You P... by thescribe on Monday August 08, 2016 @07:58PM (#12251643)
I guess I do not see the point of UBI, if not the total elimination of other social programs.
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Re:Universal Basic Income Is a Neoliberal Plot to Make You P... by dragonwriter on Monday August 08, 2016 @08:09PM (#12251692)
A major point of UBI is to eliminate (or reduce) adverse incentives inherent in means-tested social benefit programs; it can easily do this while replacing only some existing means-tested social benefit programs, leaving other social benefit programs (means tested and otherwise) in place.
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