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Re:Enough with Basic Income by TheRealPomax on Sunday September 11, 2016 @12:12PM (#12474035)
Kinda stopped reading when he described "the four things states are proxy insurers for", demonstrating a pretty drastic misrepresentation of how modern functional democratic social policies can be grouped and analyzed.
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Re:Enough with Basic Income by Nicolas_Colin on Sunday September 11, 2016 @05:28PM (#12475831)
How so? It's exactly the way it's grouped and organized in all European social systems. It's also the framework used by Yale University's Jacob Hacker in "The Great Risk Shift" to discuss US social policy: https://www.amazon.com/Great-Risk-Shift-Economic-Insecurity/...

(I wrote the Medium article)

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