A new report on a basic income scheme launched in Iran

Re:A new report on a basic income scheme launched in Iran by 52-6F-62 on Thursday June 01, 2017 @04:54PM (#14464604)

Along with the rest of the replies to your comment, I think you're also underestimating peoples motivation by greed.

UBI will guarantee you won't die by something stupid and terribly like starvation, but if you want a nice condo, nice car, better entertainment, or maybe travel -- well guess what you have to suck it up and do? And poor workers won't be tolerated. I can only assume it would become easier to fire people if doing so won't immediately place them in danger as that danger would have already been mitigated.

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Re:A new report on a basic income scheme launched in Iran by ImSkeptical on Thursday June 01, 2017 @09:26PM (#14466728)

My impression is that starvation is already an unlikely occurrence in western countries.

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Re:A new report on a basic income scheme launched in Iran by 52-6F-62 on Friday June 02, 2017 @09:24AM (#14469664)

If that's your impression, then my impression is you've never really been poor and without social support.

As a rule, I think it's best to be aware that it can almost always be possible to be worse some for people than you think it can.

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Re:A new report on a basic income scheme launched in Iran by swombat on Friday June 02, 2017 @05:46AM (#14468699)

There's millions of people relying on food banks in the UK thanks to the last 7 years of Tory austerity.

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