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A comment on Sam Altman and Andrew Yang talk UBI. Parent comment

Re:Sam Altman and Andrew Yang talk UBI by GarrisonPrime on Wednesday January 01, 2020 @09:03AM (#21928036)
>How does UBI even work?

If Indian reservations in the USA are any indication, it clearly doesn’t.

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Re:Sam Altman and Andrew Yang talk UBI by jellicle on Wednesday January 01, 2020 @09:39AM (#21928182)
There's no UBI for Native Americans in the US.
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Re:Sam Altman and Andrew Yang talk UBI by jandrewrogers on Wednesday January 01, 2020 @10:14AM (#21928307)
This is not correct. Some tribes have large sovereign wealth funds and other valuable tribal assets, the income from which is used to fund UBI for members of the tribe. These payments can be substantial, significantly larger than what Yang proposes in some cases.

Many of these tribal UBI systems have been in place for decades, so they are a good laboratory for studying the effects of UBI on population behavior.

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