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Re:A new report on a basic income scheme launched in Iran by zimzam on Thursday June 01, 2017 @03:54PM (#14463898)
That's not an abusive worker, that's just a bad worker.

In the current system bosses are sometimes hesitant to fire people if they know they have a family to support. Knowing people have UBI to lean on there's much less guilt about letting people go.

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Re:A new report on a basic income scheme launched in Iran by jlebrech on Friday June 02, 2017 @04:34AM (#14468405)
and people can leave when they have a shitty boss and they know they could be their own boss.

It'll also kill of a load of businesses where there's a bulk of minimum wage staff that could work for themselves.

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