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A comment on Free Money: The Surprising Effects of a Basic Income Supplied by Government.

Re:Free Money: The Surprising Effects of a Basic Income Supp... by ytNumbers on Monday November 13, 2017 @12:58PM (#15688415)
I can see how basic income could help some types of people, but it can also hurt other types of people. If only there was a way to determine who it would help/hurt, and then to only give it out when it would actually help.

https://ifstudies.org/blog/what-can-we-learn-from-native-ame...

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Re:Free Money: The Surprising Effects of a Basic Income Supp... by mikeash on Monday November 13, 2017 @01:02PM (#15688450)
Extrapolating from the experience of people who were genocided, displaced, systematically oppressed, and excluded from productive economic activity strikes me as likely to be inaccurate.
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