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Re:12-year study will look at effects of universal basic income by stale2002 on Monday May 07, 2018 @03:31PM (#17015722)
One thing that I am surprised that nobody talks about, when discussing UBI is the fact that the USA already has UBI for a largish segment of the population.

The US UBI program is called social security. It is just a check that is given to old people with which they can use for whatever they want.

Why can't we study what this group of people does with their money?

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Re:12-year study will look at effects of universal basic income by taysic on Monday May 07, 2018 @09:24PM (#17018075)
Having free money after a lifetime of working that you feel you contributed to seems different from having it available before you've worked before.
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