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Re:Basic income in Finland did not lead to finding work, res... by Mediterraneo10 on Friday February 08, 2019 @02:32PM (#19117835)
> people who stop working bear a generation of people who have never worked, and they bear children

Discourage bearing of children by pushing contraception and providing the poor and unemployed with free internet access, with streaming and online gaming, in order to occupy their time. Birthrates are already going down in the West, and probably a further push can be made here and there so that people are even less interested in children. Then, that underclass status won’t be passed on to another generation, it will stop with the first generation.

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Re:Basic income in Finland did not lead to finding work, res... by mises on Friday February 08, 2019 @05:52PM (#19119446)
Whoa, this is starting to sound kinda disturbing. Serious Brave New World stuff here. Let me guess, the government should encourage and provide freely sterilization? And every woman should wear a Malthusian belt?

This kind of population control is rarely, if ever, a good idea. What happens if a racist decides to push stuff that targets blacks to try to shrink their numbers? You don't know that we won't get some awful person in charge of that.

Be really, really careful what you wish for and what you argue for.

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