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Re:I’m not saving ninety percent of my income for myself by elamje on Saturday June 08, 2019 @04:11PM (#20134847)
Possibly, but there are a lot of people unlike yourself that don’t feel a major pressure to work, some might continue but there would be more currently employed people that would choose not to work as much, than currently unemployed people that would choose to start work under a big net IMHO.

Just with the arithmetic of 5ish% of unemployment. People who start working under a net can only be 5% of population. People who stop working or work much less could be up to 95% of population. Much bigger percentage has possibility to work less under that system.

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Re:I’m not saving ninety percent of my income for myself by skinnymuch on Saturday June 08, 2019 @06:24PM (#20135597)
Sure. Other comments in this thread are throwing out numbers like 99% of people would chill at home with tv on all day just because of a safety net. I wasn’t sure what sort of degree you were going with things.

Of course more people would take advantage of the system, but Americans overall as a society don’t like excessive laziness and put pride in some amount of work being done. Not working and being poor is frowned upon generally. To keep things loose, this is true for at least greater than 50% of the country.

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