Trapped by the ‘Walmart of Heroin’

Re:Trapped by the ‘Walmart of Heroin’ by clydesdale on Thursday October 11, 2018 @05:27PM (#18197166)

Addendum to The Great Universal Basic Income Debate:

  A large portion of UBI funds will 
  get dumped into places like this.

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Re:Trapped by the ‘Walmart of Heroin’ by EdwardDiego on Thursday October 11, 2018 @07:10PM (#18197781)

...and? If UBI replaces money obtained from crime, then does the overall social cost rise or diminish?

We have a decent social security system in my country, and as I often like to tell well-off people whinging about their taxes being given to the "spongers" - social security keeps society secure against poor people.

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Re:Trapped by the ‘Walmart of Heroin’ by nickthemagicman on Thursday October 11, 2018 @07:03PM (#18197733)

Or maybe free from the stressess of poverty they will finally have the stability to get clean.

I hope UBI goes into these places. It will end a lot of misery and give people an escape ladder out of that world.

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Re:Trapped by the ‘Walmart of Heroin’ by dang on Friday October 12, 2018 @01:02AM (#18199341)

Please don't take HN on offtopic tangents unless it's in a little-discussed and curious direction. The last thing we need is for threads to get sucked into the black holes of classic flamewar topics.

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