Sam Altman and Andrew Yang talk UBI

Re:Sam Altman and Andrew Yang talk UBI by kingkawn on Wednesday January 01, 2020 @01:59PM (#21929784)

From Yang’s campaign website: “Current welfare and social program beneficiaries would be given a choice between their current benefits or $1,000 cash unconditionally – most would prefer cash with no restriction.”

The point of public healthcare and food programs, among the other programs he’s talking about not having, is that even if you run out of money you can still buy food because the food stamps are reserved for doing so.

I know you all like to imagine everyone is rational like you, but what will you do when someone has spent everything and cannot feed themselves? Or has spent everything because of an emergency and their healthcare coverage lapses and they are ill?

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Re:Sam Altman and Andrew Yang talk UBI by Red_Leaves_Flyy on Friday January 03, 2020 @10:52AM (#21946921)

Has anyone actually studied what people do in these scenarios or are you just assuming that people will willingly starve themselves to death en masse at a rate greater than the current just because they get $1k in pity money a month?

Give me a break.

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