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Re:Meritocracy and its discontents: The merits of revisiting... by orangecat on Saturday February 10, 2018 @12:03AM (#16345985)
But, UBI does something more by taking money from those who need it and giving it to those who don't. Every dollar going to an upper middle class tech worker is a dollar not going towards uplifting the lowest of our society.

The tech worker will be paying a lot more in taxes than the amount of their UBI check. It's mathematically equivalent to them not getting UBI at all and having a somewhat lower tax rate.

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Re:Meritocracy and its discontents: The merits of revisiting... by yourcousinbilly on Saturday February 10, 2018 @05:58PM (#16350122)
True, why go through the motions of taking money then giving it back. Sounds like a great way to waste money through government inefficiency. It could possibly be efficient, but we should expect it not to be.
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