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Re:Ask YC: Any Updates on the Basic Income Project? by wav-part on Sunday December 18, 2016 @05:07AM (#13205157)
> Those people are already being supported with fantastically expensive bureaucratic benefit systems.

You are basically saying: We already have bad socialism so lets try good socialism. UBI is as bad if not worst. Distorted market will be least of our worries.

I am in favour of guranteed, no-string-attached food & shalter.

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Re:Ask YC: Any Updates on the Basic Income Project? by aninhumer on Sunday December 18, 2016 @05:13AM (#13205174)
So distorting the market by giving people money and letting them decide what they want is bad, but distorting the market by buying/producing arbitrary food and shelter for people is good?
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Re:Ask YC: Any Updates on the Basic Income Project? by wav-part on Sunday December 18, 2016 @05:38AM (#13205248)
No its lot less worse than UBI. I should point out that the Govt part would be minimal. Food & Shelter should be provided by multiple private entities under contract from Govt.

If you want to eliminate Food & Shelter Welfare as well, you would not hear any objection from me.

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Re:Ask YC: Any Updates on the Basic Income Project? by _andromeda_ on Sunday December 18, 2016 @07:03AM (#13205500)
No objections here too.
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